I bought a new cd yesterday, which is something I haven't done in years. I was convinced by an outside source that downloading was the way to go, but I remembered why I buy the tangible album. I buy them for the lyrics. I enjoy feeling the paper insert in my fingers, reading the words from paper, it's the essence of it. The album I bought was Passion Pit's album Manners. I felt a little silly asking for it at Graywhale, being that I'm nearly 27 and all the 17 year old emo kids would normally covet it. Anyway, I bought it, took it home and hit play. Instantly I opened the sleevelet and began scanning the artwork and the lyrics. I found, though not in the order on the album, but that the album was the soundtrack of my life since the start of this 2010 year. Several of the songs, the lyrics and the tune, they resonated, deeply. It's freaking me out in a way, though I've been focusing on not letting my fear control me. I've been working on letting myself feel the emotion, breathing through it and letting it go: sending it back to God, for it was that entity that gave it to me to learn from, after all right? I have to feel it all, all of it. In a way, it seems this album was set in front of me. It's brought recognition, so powerful that I've been shaken. It's been cathartic.
I have to share these songs, they're perfect. If you so decide, look up the lyrics.
Before I made the hardest decision I've ever made, ever:
"The Reeling"
and shortly after:
"Let Your Love Grow Tall"
and shortly after that:
"Eyes as Candles"
"To Kingdom Come"
'Swimming in the Flood"
and bits and pieces of some of the other songs ring true. It's crazy to me, how a universal song can pin point actual happenings in one's life.
More later, thanks for reading ;)
-Rikki Lee
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