You used to lift me up..
Songs have a powerful influence on all of us and we choose our own soundtrack to reflect that which we feel important, highlighting defining periods in our lives. Revisiting those audible monuments does sometimes give you pause to reflect and wonder at what was, could have been, will be..
Listening to “Again”, by Archive, and appreciating the lyrics as well as the mood generated by the music. I am an absolute sucker for guitar and drum heavy music, and as blogged about not so long ago, this one still has the ability to give pause.
“..now you get me down” to complete the lyrics began in this posts title.
Good times, bad times, shameful times, and those times where you shone beyond yours, and others, expectations; all are, or should be, encapsulated within their own musical punctuation, usually via an artist or group that seemed to talk to you specifically during that period of your life.
I can’t change those times, I can only revisit them and reflect on the person that they helped develop for better or worse.
I now find myself in the position where I am seeing the seeds of this process starting to develop in my two young boys. Both of them, and more so the youngest, are beginning to develop their own musical tastes and creating their own ‘audible monuments’ as they grow ever upwards physically and emotionally.
I do wonder how their own internal playlist will sound, and also whether my own musical tastes will influence them as they grow. We can only watch… and listen…