Music, doesn't it fill such a need :)

by LyinEyes 17 Replies latest jw friends

  • LyinEyes
    LyinEyes

    I am sitting here listening to my KaZaA, finding old songs that I had forgotten I even knew at one time. Music to me has always been an outlet for expression, even thou the words and music belong to someone eles. It can help me to work thru my emotions in ways like no other . I can listen to a song and let my grief out, or listen to a song that makes me want to have fun and dance. I can't imagine life without my favorite songs. I used to wonder what the New World would be like , if we couldnt listen to our favorite kinds of music, how dull it would seem to be. I used to like the kingdom melodies well enough, but I didnt want to listen to them all the time. I wanted to listen to Elvis, Chuck Berry, Lynard Syknard, and yes even Ozzy. What about Hank, and all those good old heartbreak songs, George Jones? Since the subject matter would be questionable , they would be tossed I guess, and I always felt God would have to take it out of my head for me not to hum them. I even love the gospel stuff we were forbidden to listen to, like Amazing Grace. I guess thinking about it , music is a very human thing, and maybe the angels sing too, I wonder if they only sing praises to God? What if they sing heartbreak songs too? Who knows , but I love my songs , and would hate to spend eternity not ever hearing them again.

    I have found that writing in my journal and listening to music has been the most theraputic thing in my life. I can hear a song, and go back to the exact place, age and time when I first heard that song playing, ya know what I mean? It puts me right back there , like if time hasnt moved at all. I think we need to be able to connect with the past like that. The music we listen to today will be our memories for the future. Years from now, I know I will hear Creed and remember the year I left the borg and how I felt so unsure of it all.

    I can honestly say I love all music, I would like to expand my horizons on it thou and listen to more . What about you, do you feel that music and song, are a big part of your life and that it makes life so much better?

    Edited by - LyinEyes on 30 November 2002 15:3:32

  • COMF
    COMF

    Yay, music! Says things so well when words alone aren't doing it. For instance, I sent this to a lady I was wooing.

    Violent Love

    Her reply said, in part:

    I am now a puddle on the floor and am using an adaptive device to type.
    You sure are getting to know the right buttons to push, aren't you.
  • freedom96
    freedom96

    I agree, music is awesome!

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    When I sing, I am a bird winging through the sky without a care. Singing Christmas carols drug me out of a severe depression. Yes, music fills a need in me.

  • snakecharmer
    snakecharmer

    as a wise man once stated, music soothes the savage beast. you are right on with this one

  • heathen
    heathen

    I agree music is a must have .I am big on music and even play an instrument .life would be so boring without it .

  • TR
    TR

    If ever I had a "spiritual" experience, it was at the YES concert last Tuesday. I've been listening to them since I was a teenager.

    It's the type of music you can rock to or lay down in the dark and take a fantasy voyage through the mind. I love it.

    TR

  • Bendrr
    Bendrr

    Yet another reason on my list to say "no thanks" to the dub's New System concept. No rock and roll! That is extreme bovine excrement! The GB can demonize rock all they want. Being grumpy old men, that's to be expected. I just don't think God would see it that way. Any kind of music takes talent, even rap. I could see Him jacking some of the lyrics, but not the artwork that is the music itself. And who could imagine that for all eternity no 16 year old kid will ever pick up a Fender (or the NS version of such) plug into an amp and entertain his friends with some power chords?

    In the words of Autograph, "Day time, night time, anytime...things go better with rock!"

    Mike.

  • vanilla sky
    vanilla sky

    I would have curled up and died along time ago if it wasnt for music

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    For me, music can be a spiritual experience, and/or an emotional one. It was music, sung in a church, that for the first time unlocked my lifetime's grief. I ran to the bathroom and bauled for a while. I like some rock, some christmas carols, some gregorian chant, etc.

    Creative musicians are doing a spiritual work when they create music out of nothing. I think that on the other side, among many other things, is music beyond our imaginations.

    SS

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