2004-04-09
Musical Melancholic Musings
For some reason I feel a tad melancholy today. No reason, just that kinda mood.Been listening to Emmy Lou Harris and John Denver (yeah I like �em � wanna make something of it? Heh), and I tell ya� � it�s tragic that JD is gone. Tragic in a number of ways, actually.
What is it with so many (it seems) noteworthy people (especially musicians) dying on airplanes?
Anyway, about the melancholy.
I do get that way at times. I�m sure hormones have a lot to do with it, of course. Don�t they always? But there are a few songs that always do that to me. And yeah, most are "country" songs.
So shoot me, gnomad! Hehehe.
I can�t listen to either Dolly Parton song, I Will Always Love You or She�s a Sparrow When She�s Broken, and an Eagle When She Flies. At ALL. I cry. Always. The first reminds me of my ex, with whom I�m still friends (that will never change) but occasionally miss. And the second my mother, who died almost 2 years ago. She was like that.
*sigh*
Then John Denver, singing Don�t Close Your Eyes, Tonight. sometimes I can play it over and over and sing along. Other times I sing along while crying. Not sure why that is. I'm sure not crying for me. Or am I? Guess I just feel supremely guilty on that one.
And then I just get to thinking of all those other songs:
Garth Brooks, doing a ballad I love, Lonesome Dove. Then I start getting defiant and all, listening to ol� Garth singing Standing Outside the Fire or The River.
But right now I�m contemplating the meaning of a phrase that has been nagging at me for days now. It�s from a Mary Chapin Carpenter song, and I have a *feel* for what it means, but when you break it down, it doesn�t make sense. I don�t recall the song, but the line is "...before the road less taken becomes the path of least resistance".
It sounds so profound, and I have no idea what it means. I mean, I know what it means, but *sigh*
Anyway, that�s my random musical thoughts for the moment.
Just had a brief break here at the Lion�s Den.
Mitakuye Oyasin
(even country music artists)
Walk in Balance.
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