Reading Between The Lyrics

Reading Between The Lyrics - Prologue

"Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse." – Taylor Swift

That is the quote that is written in elegant words across the deep purple wall in my bedroom and also my motto; my line just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator is “I'll be back.” That quote is also my own beautiful motto and life belief, my religion.

Music to me personally truly is my religion, a life source that keeps me vibrant and quenched. An inner part of me has always found a source of comfort and reliance on music for support and comfort and I can accept that, admit that.

Music is there for everyone, in the simplest forms as the jingle of car keys in the jean pocket of a stranger right down to the blasting of some sadistic, morbid emo song. I hold no grudges to music and I rather cherish it even if it is just some dull classical song.

Why?

Because it holds meaning, a story. That’s why I love music so much – they are not just words someone chucked together and thrusted under the nose of some stranger. Songs, lyrics, they all have a story behind it. Whether it is about a girl’s first heartbreak, the betrayal experienced between two friends, religious beliefs or the happiness and supernova of life felt when you fall in love. No matter what they hold a story and that’s what I love.

I love the idea that when I'm listening to a song I'm listening to the deepest and darkest secrets of someone’s out there, someone’s confessions. I love how intimate and personal it is, how cherishing it is listening to and living that moment in a person’s life. Even if it’s only for 3 minutes and 15 seconds. I love how every song has a lesson, a meaning and how the simplest of people can take it easily for granted or don't pay attention to the meaning.

Yet I think one of the things that amazes me beyond means is the fact that every lyric made you can relate to in some way, no matter your circumstances you can pause for a moment and go “hey that’s just like when....” No matter what you can relate and understand in your own way.

But I think the purest of beauty with lyrics, with music, is that it can mean whatever you want it to mean. Your own experiences at the end of the day will shape and decide on what you think of the lyrics, what you believe and what you take from it.

I long for the day when some beautiful, wondrous person picks up an album of mine and listens to a track and decides what they think. I wish I was there beside them to listen to their thoughts and hear what they think my music is saying, telling. I want to know what they think of me, what they think has happened and I want to know what they think of me.

Because that’s what lyrics do, they tell everything about you. Lyrics bare your soul and tell the world all your secrets and faults. They uncover lies and they highlight regrets and mistakes. They’re beautiful confessions that come from the heart and soul. People say that the eyes are the window to your soul, but for musicians it is the lyrics that are the window to your soul. It tells a person everything they need to know about that person and tells a life story right from the party mode of teenagers’ right to the day you bring life into this world. It’s like a scrapbook of your inner thoughts.

If you’re listening to an artist that’s always going on about parties and women well than it’s quite obvious that the person is a bit of a player and party and animal, right? Or maybe there’s secrets beneath it, his song of heartbreak on the next track makes you stop and think; is he a party animal because of his trust issues because of his last love? Each track tells a story of their life and you’ll find that the song about love that is followed by a breakup song is linked and about the same person.

Lyrics uncover all and you write things intentionally, or unintentionally. But at the end of the day it all comes from the heart and is true. You can't lie when it comes to writing, when it comes to music. Music sees right through you, you can't fake happiness when all you can create is sombre sadness on the piano. You can't lie. What you’re feeling, what you believe in the end is put to paper and is sang and listened to, those things you couldn’t say can always be said through music and are every day. It’s a way of counselling and putting everything in perspective, those things needed to be said to move on can be done through lyrics rather than words.

My problem starts when I look down at my leather bound book with scribbles and torn pages all throughout it. Yet what fills it is page after page of lyrics, songs and secrets that I’ve scribbled down in random moments at times like whilst in the shower to when I'm at home alone with my guitar. Each and every one of those lyrics telling me, you, something, confessing to secrets and feelings.

There’s only just one problem.

I can't read in between my lyrics.

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If you're a fan of my "Hiding Behind The Music" story you'll love this! If you love music - you'll love this! If you love romance you'll love this! :) :) :)

Comment/vote etc. Let me know what you think please! I'm not too sure of this as a prologue - tell me if you think I should go back and edit and fix it up a bit!

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