The Music That Echoes
I always loved the ending of The Beatles Abbey Road: ” The love you take is equal to the love you make”
Sort of like another song : “What what comes around goes around.” It really became one of my favorite musical statements. It was the reminder at the end of a turbulent decade that we still could cherish the golden rule- do on to others as you would have them do on to you (or something like that). Love they neighbor as you would love yourself.
There is so much music that has become woven into the fabric of my life- how about yours?
But there are times when you may remember getting burned, you may find yourself asking “how did I get here?”. Sort of like Talking Heads “life in wartime” – same as it ever was, same as it ever was.,
But the sounds contain the soundtrack, that bounces into the stratosphere of your remembrances. It is the music hitting the angles of my living room right now.
Listening to thoughtful music that once seemed like the ingredients of that “hippie hopefulness” of a younger time. Does that mean I don’t believe it now. No, I think I believe it more now than ever, but when you get older and life gets more serious I suppose it makes it harder. Neil Young may tell you not to “let it bring you down, it’s only castles burning”. More an echo now that the dream it may seem to once have been.
So I will escape. ” Be a free man in Paris, unfettered and alive. No one calling me up for favors, no one’s future to decide.” ( thanks Joni). It will be a short trip down the road I am going before I get there. It will be the travel music that will keep me sane, it will be the soundtrack that will put a song with a moment and indelibly inject it into my memory as “that time when….” It will show up in the background at the mall, in the movie credits, on the radio in the car, or just when things are quiet and my mind wanders…
What is your life’s sound track sound like?
I know this is all random. But it is like all the songs that reach out, streaming from a website like a “sonic cocktail” that can take you on a trip though time. Sorry for the free-form random song-dropping. But that’s how it is.
It can capture a feeling… It can make you recall things that are just an echo in your mind that suddenly reappear.
Tracks In The Dust 