So, you want to hear somethin'?

      11/20/01 - You ever come to a ponit in your life when one song makes so much sense? When every word describes you and your life, your situation? I think I'm at one right now. Lately there's a few tracks that I have that have somehow become more clear. Right now, I Wish You Were Here from Incubus is playing, and all the words mean more than they did a couple of weeks ago. It'd be nice if there was a name I could attach to it, but there isn't. I don't know who it is, and it doesn't bother me too much. But I wish, that's for sure. That's not the only song, though.

      Under the Sun by Sugar Ray is another one that I've found again. It's kind of ironic, too, he sings about music from back in the day, if you listen to the lyrics. He even mentions in one part about rewinding a song because the words had so much meaning. Give it a listen sometime, it describes my state of mind at the moment. Reminiscent, or something along that line.

      Of course, that isn't all of them. There's the darker side of it, of course, as always. For one, Down by Fuel. Or Woke Up This Morning from Nickelback's new album. It's all the words and raw emotion that come through that seem to get to me, and I find myself screaming in my truck along with them when I drive. Or here, when they come on. The one Cardigans track entitled Favorite Game, too. It's not as angry as the other two I just mentioned, but listen to the words sometime. Lyrics, people, lyrics. Witch from Cold is a fitting one for this category, as well.

      If you don't ever relate to anything or anyone, you won't have any clue what I'm talking about. There's a thing called empathy, something that puts you on par with the rest of humanity, and if you don't have any, you won't find any kind of meaning in anything. Se la vie, say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. Bonus points to anyone who can name the song that line comes from. Anyhow, you have to have some kind of emotion in you to listen to something and be able to draw a correlation to it. What's tragic is that I know what the songs I've just named say about me.

      Fortunately, that isn't all of them. Give a listen to Beached from Orbital off of soundtrack from The Beach. Or maybe Salty Dog from Flogging Molly. There's a whole collection of upbeat stuff that I have recently found a bit more real than I did before, something more than background music. No meaning in some, just the beat: Pink Cadillac from Bruce Springstein. Robbie Williams, Let Love Be Your Energy.

      What's sad is I listen to more pissed-off music than anything. I blame this all on Wikki, getting me started on talented heavy stuff. I'm kidding, of course, you choose your own path. I think I just realized which one I'm on.

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