Music is My Savior

 

My love for music has always been around since the days I was a child.  The Music moves through me hears to ignite different emotions like a flame.  The emotions so sweet like Aerosmith once said in a song.  I as I wrote heard the long drag of sweeeet emoootion.  Like a draw of breath in the morning just cool and refreshing, with my eyes closed just letting it caress my face.  The music can remind you of loss that person or people that meant so much in your life.  That can make you smile and cry at the same time.  Then there are songs like Hurt especially the version by Johnny Cash.  You feel the pain of a life all the times cries have been held in.  The emotion that had been hardened like stone from years piling up layer by layer until you cannot feel anything.  Till one day the stone starts to crack then all those feelings of loss and hurt creep out.  Johnny Cash then felt you could hear and see the pain in his face.  This resonates with me because of all the pain or loss through my journey in this life.  The salt that makes the sweet oh so much better, the contrasting flavors that make life ever so wonderful. 

To know pleasure, you must know the feeling that you are in a dungeon hungry sick wishing to escape.  You must know the pain so when you taste that pleasure as Will Farrell said in the movie Old School, it tastes so good when it hits your lips.  The feeling I get when Calling Baton Rouge rockets out of my speakers with the fiddle and Garth starts singing, I spent last night in the arms of a girl from Louisiana.  I am constantly wrapped in the purple and gold of LSU to remind me of home, then I hear I’m out on the highway, my thoughts are still with her.  My Louisiana is always in my thoughts even though I am still with her because my state is my heart.  I close my eyes then smile because then thoughts drift in my head of bon fires on levies and drinking after an LSU win.  Along with a collage of memories that engulf me in a fire of happiness and passion.  Oh, this is so wonderful and right now smiling ear to ear.  Music this boogey man that flirts with your eyes and plays on your emotions like a bow hitting the strings of a fiddle.  To once again pull that emotion out of you.  Music is and will forever be my savior, throwing me a life preserver to save me from my own thoughts or just boost me like an energy drink.  Revive my memories to remember the thoughts and lessons of my entire life.  Remind me that I went so long in a prison while others lived off my emotions.  I am now free this I know is true I am free from the shackles and music reminds me of this Magnificent and at time perilous journey.  Time to listen to songs finish work and smile today is a good day.  It’s a great day to be alive just as Travis Tritt sang with passion.