I wrote a song today. Heard a piece of music that moved me. Heard a new album from one of my favourite artists and got inspired. Then I turned up the sound on my new track, grabbed my voice recorder and started singing my melodies. Then I put pen to paper. Half an hour later, my song was born.
I wasn't in the best of spaces. In fact, I was in one of the worst. But I found myself playing a song from that album that just resonated in every cell of my body. Do you ever have that happen to you? The beat moves you, the bass line fills you, the melody soothes you, the vocals just soar and the lyrics touch you. They touch you so deeply, straight to your soul. They found you at the perfect moment. You needed that song and it found you. It understood you. And it encompassed everything in that moment. I seriously can't describe it any better then saying it touches every cell in your body and every vibration of your soul. I love when that happens. The song in question is Alicia Keys 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'. Ah, for some reason that song hit me today.
But the beauty for me was what happened after. This year I have been uninspired. Unable to create. I knew intellectually that I now have mountains of material, a wealth of experience, a well of joy and pain to draw from, but you don't create art intellectually. Creativity arises in that silent space, that space where you're free. That space where you're not actually thinking, but feeling. Actually, even feeling isn't the right word. And it flowed today. Like it used to. But it also took me to new higher heights. And it healed me. The hurt I was feeling dissipated. The anger melted away. What took it's place? Joy. That beautiful feeling that for me, only music can bring. Only music can bring. And now I don't ever want to stop.
Music inspires. Music heals. Music saves. And today, it did all three for me.
Music, I love you. Nothing could ever take your place.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Music Therapy - My Element Of Freedom
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So good to hear you were inspired. I think we both had a burst of creativity around the same time!:) Our energies must be connected! lol!
Check out India Arie's song all about how music is always around her, in everything. It's called
"Always In My Head".
Lyrics: You're like a cool breeze, on a summer's day, You are a river running through the desert plain, You are my shelter, from the pouring rain, You were my comfort, even before the pain, I can hear the sound of five drummers in the wind,The leaves blowing in the breeze, ring out like guitars, A tin can rolls across the gravel like a tambourine, I am but a vessel, so I sing, because you are
In my head, you're always in my head. In my dreams, you're always in my head,In my pain, you're always in my head, In my peace, you're always in my head
A rainbow of rhythm stretches across the sky, An airplane in the distance, plays a beautiful cello line, It's no coincidence; it's in tune with the music in my head, If you were a shoulder you're where I would rest, but I am your vessel so I hear, you
In my head,you're always in my head
In my fears,you're always in my head, In my joy,you're always in my head, In my tears, you're always in my head
You're like a cool breeze, on a summer's day, You are a river, running through a desert plain
You've been my shelter, from the pouring rain,You were my comfort, even before the pain:'cause I hear you
In my head, you're always in my head, In my dreams, you're always in my head,In my pain, you're always in my head,In my peace, you're always in my head
In my head,you're always in my head
In my fears, you're always in my head,In my joy, you're always in my head, In my tears, you're always in my head
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