i don't know about you, but for me, every so often a song comes along that seems to stand out more than its fellows and makes a more immediate and profound connection to me. In addition to quite a few Rush songs, an example of such a song would be "May You Never" by John Martyn. But they don't come along that often. So I'm happy to have found two such songs in a relatively short period of time.
One, perhaps predictably, is the last track on the latest Rush album "The Garden" - a meditation on life and the passage of time, which just seems to express a lot of what I feel more succinctly than I am capable of. The other is "Matmos" the lead track from Amplifier's new album "Echo Street" - I haven't spent enough time with the song yet to understand why it makes this connection with me, I just know that it does.
And these give me something to aspire to - I long to create something that comes in any way close to meaning as much to someone as these songs mean to me. I used to write a lot of songs - it was a way of getting stuff out of my system - problems seem easier to comprehend when they are down in black and white in front of you. Somewhere along the way things seemed to dry up and I started feeling that such creativity as I had, was gone. Which in turn became a source of regret and fed the feelings that seemed to be leeching the creativity from me. This seems to be starting to turn around again - I am finding some small crumbs of inspiration creeping into my head again - and rather than the collection of dogeared notebooks that I always kept with me before, I have "OneNote" on my phone, laptop and tablet...
Now I have to find the right people to put this into action and bring it to life. To feed my one real addiction - music.
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