Soothing the Savage Beast

Music. There are a lot of sayings about music soothing the savage beast and all that, but behind each saying, there is a little nugget of truth.

I realized today, that music is meant to move us. Well, most music is, some is just nothing more than a bunch of tones strung together and made popular by mass media. Every once in a while though, we come across a song that strikes us to the core and allows us to reaffirm those things in life that we have had doubts about or that we are growing less sure of.

As I said a couple posts back, things have been a little out of whack lately, and I know that it has affected me too because I have been letting things get to me more than I usually do when she gets in one of her moods. The other day, as I was driving into the salon to go to work, I was listening to my MP3 player and came across a song that I had not heard in a while. As the song played, I listened to the lyrics and realized that there was something to be learned from them. At least to me. I am not saying that there is a song out there that will talk to everyone the same way. While mine is a club mix, yours may be a ballad, pop, country, or even something classical. The trick is to let the music speak to you and listen to what it tells you.

Trying to impose your own meaning over the music will not get you anywhere, you have to listen to what the music is telling you to really get the concept.

What most people don’t realize is that music actually is a living thing, or rather, it takes on a life of its own after it is released. A song that I may feel is about loosing something may seem to you to be about finding something. It as all in the interpretation. Since we all have our own individual viewpoint, we each tend to see things a little bit differently.

I guess what I am trying to tell you is that when all else fails, listen to your music collection and see what pops out at you. Whether it is in the car while you are driving, or while you are home working around the house, going to bed, or even at work if you are lucky enough to be able to listen to your music there. You will eventually find that one song that can get you back on track and where you need to be. I call this my anthem. We all have an anthem. The Anthem of Ourselves. Doesn’t matter what kind of music it is, but it will get you up when you’re down, and back on track when you are derailed.