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    Angel

    You, know — they don't make music like the used to.  I know that sounds old.  Here I am listening to Sarah McLachlan's Angel:

    … spend all your time waiting, for that second chance. For a break that will make it okay.  There is always some reason to feel not good enough, and it's hard at the end of the day.

    … I need some distraction, oh beautiful release, memory seep from my veins. Let me be empty and weightless and may I'll find some peace tonight.

    … and the words are absolutely perfect — if you remember the show The Pretender, that was the first I heard it. It was also on that movie with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan: City of Angels.

    1ove, melancholy.

  2. 02

    A Few Bars

    That is all it takes for a few notes of any song to play for me to know what the the song is, who sings it, where did I hear it, where I was, who was there, what time frame, mood, state of being I was in, when I heard the song.  What it felt like to hear the song.



    Isn't music a beautiful thing.  The ability to recall memory that fast, that precise, why aren't we using music to educate?

    I suppose it can be used to remember hard things, like history. I never liked history, I loved mathematics though. Some claim music helps you understand maths and science better.  I don't know about that.

    What I find fascinating about all of this and music, is how music is capable of putting you in the time, place, and frame of when you first heard something, it's almost as if your are there, emotionally even.  How does such a thing as simple as vibrations do so much to the mind?

    I mean, I don't like the goo-goo dolls, but as soon I hear a few notes of that song, iris. Hell just thinking about it now, I get, sad. Not sad as in, depressed, but I remember a life, that was, a life that could have, a life I want to have.

    It is fascinating.

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