Music Makes Me Hiigghhh!
Before you go thinking I'm a substance abuser, the above title is the name of a cut by the Hip Hop group, "The Lost Boyz." :-)

I am a music lover in the purist sense and am inspired by many singers and songwriters. "SO'TD" includes some songs I've found to be either moving, inspirational, provocative or just plain fun.

You'll notice that most of the songs are not current. Like a lot of 30-somethings, I have reverted to mostly "Old School" music as I feel artists, bands and rap groups from the '60s, '70s, '80s and early '90s simply cannot be touched by today's imitators.

Most artists these days don't seem to be into writing quality lyrics anymore. That would be too much like work. Why take the time to be creative and thought-provoking when you can just slap a slamming beat onto it, promote it alongside a bling-blingin', hootchie-filled video and have yourself a hit faster than you can say it's "off the hizzle for shizzle"? Of course, there are a few contemporary musicians out there actually creating their own music with lyrics that sound like they've actually read more than one book. I'll include them as their music inspires me.

All lyrics are the property and copyright of their owners.

- posted by Girl in the City @ 6:44 PM

 
I Was Brought to My Senses
Sting, to me, is one of the most intelligent and allegorical songwriters making music today. This guy writes like he spends a lot of time reading...classics. I've read Sting lyrics and found myself doing research on the origins of a term or phrase that he used. His use of metaphor is almost literary.

I feel the need to stray away from love songs in SO'TD because...there's really nothing original about the concept of love. But this song is so rich with metaphor and imagery that I wanted to include it. Probably what endears me to it most is the fact that I once was so in love with someone that we seemed to reach a point of synchronicity, as though nature was bringing everything together at just the right time to prove to us the perfection of our love. That's another story, but I think that's part of what this song is about.

I was Brought to My Senses (Sting)

Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I could win you
Or if I could make you mine
Or if I could make you mine

The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth

For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I

I walked out this morning
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me
Every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name
And that our love would always last
And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree
The shape of our future
The shape of all our history
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Came things I'd never seen
Things I'd never seen

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me

I know it's true
It's written in a sky as blue
As blue as your eyes
As blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw
Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the moon and sun
And when our courtly dance had run
Its course across the sky
Then together we would lie
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Something new would arrive
Something better would arrive

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me
I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me.
- posted by Girl in the City @ 12:53 PM