I love those days when you are feeling great, everything just clicks into place and you are stress free. You hop in your car to head out somewhere, maybe to meet a friend, or see your parents, or shopping, as you drive you turn on the radio and a really good song comes on and you sing along with it tapping your fingers on the steering wheel to the beat as you go.
There is something about music that relates directly to your soul, you feel it deep in your bones, the lyrics are hauntingly deep and can be interpreted differently by each person. It coaxes you to start moving your body, either by tapping your foot or straight up dancing in reckless abandon.
It really is fascinating if you think about it, even a song in a different language can make you move your body or sing along. I remember when Du Hast came out, it was in a German language and completely foreign to me, but I still sang along with it even though I had no idea what the artist was saying.
There is something primal about the beats of song, a steady boom, boom, boom, boom, rhythm throughout the song goes all the way back when natives stretched an animal hide over a bowl and danced around a fire to the steady beat of the drum. To this day that beat is universal and every human being feels it in their bones when they hear it.
When you are sad, some songs hit you very hard as well, and we tend to relate certain music to our situation. Our depression is slightly lifted when we realized that, through music, someone else has experienced our sorrow, and that we are not alone. I have cried as I sang through some deeply moving songs when I was feeling particularly sad.
Sometimes music has the effect of making you stronger, and after listening to it you feel more determined and confident. Music is so powerful that it can actually change who we are without forcing itself upon us, it simply flows through us like magic. It can make you feel differently about someone just from listening to them play, listening to a recording and watching someone live is an eye opening experience.
There is Something amazing About Music.
Scott Goerz
