New thought - how much of what we really want to say is couched in some way - hidden meanings, hidden agendas, hidden sometimes even from ourselves? A couple of my favorite songs off the newest album I've been osmosing (is that a word) are fun because of double meanings. Well, not really double meanings, just multiple ways of looking at something I guess. And that what one person would get out of it is something other than what someone else might get out of it.
Some of my favorite albums are my favorites because they either mirror something that I'm going through in my life in terms of the lyrics, or in terms of the mood of the music, or they mirror things I wish I were or wish I could be or wish I could have. Sometimes it's also things that I didn't think about until I heard the song, but it reflected some of my experience as well, in terms I hadn't thought of - like perfectionism (how we strive to have our parents love us), religion (or lack thereof), coming to grips with former loves, empowering yourself, seeing your own sexiness reflected in your attraction to someone else, wishing for a life you're not going to have, knowing it's not going to work, but going for it anyway, fighting and making up, introspection, the one that got away, being a strong woman, but also wanting to lean on someone else's strength sometimes. And a million songs about crushes and love and butterflies that glimpse of the one you want, and the chase, and obsessing over the person and forgiveness and that space that's just the two of you, and letting go.
Posted by cshell at July 14, 2003 10:36 PM