Monday, April 28, 2008

When it rains, it pours.

So i suppose the two disclaimers on this post would be as follows:
1) i am and will always be slightly obsessed with 90's rock. I will be that dad who never lets his kids listen to current music because the station will always be on the "classic rock" station, which will be of course, the 90's.
2) i may or may not be mentally unstable right now. (its funny cause its true)

So i just listened to the song "lightning crashes" by Live. By "just listened," i mean "have been listening on repeat for close to a half an hour" of course.
anyway.
To fully understand this post, it would benefit you greatly to stop reading now, and listen to "lightning crashes." dont act like you dont have a copy of that album sitting around somewhere, you know you played the shit out of it back in 1996.
basically from the solo section to the end of the song is rocking my world. i literally am moved to tears by this ending. I think its remarkable song writing to begin and end the chorus with the line "oh i feel it" and "i can feel it."
its so moving when someone nails the point that there is so much more happening in this fucked up world we find ourselves in. Forces pulling from the center of the earth. Indeed. No matter what, i can feel things happening around me, and i know that im not alone, even though i feel like that alot.
i looked up what the song is about using Wiki, which is amazing, and basically its about a friend of theirs that was killed by a drunk driver. Her organs were donated, and the song is about the idea of beauty out of totally fucking disaster.
if only all of life could be just that.
maybe it is, and im just not seeing it as much as i should.
By the end of the song, Ed is yelling the lyrics, and there is an amazing counter melody in the background driving the point home.
Oh i feel it coming back again
like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
forces pulling from the center of the earth again
i can feel it.

1 comment:

sara said...

life IS like that

I think