There’s been times, I’m so confused
Down my road, will it lead to you?
Just can’t turn and walk away

It’s hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say it, I can’t do
enough to prove, it’s all for you

Finally I figured out,
But it took a long long time
Now there’s a turnabout,
Maybe cause I’m tryin’

There’s been times, I’m so confused
Down my road, will it lead to you?
Just can’t turn and walk away

Well it’s hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say it, I can’t do
enough to prove, it’s all for you

I’d thought I seen it all,
Cause it’s been a long long time
Oh bothered that we’ll trip and fall,
Wonderin’ if I’m alive
There’s been times, I’m so confused
Down my road, will it lead to you?
I just can’t turn, you walk away

It’s hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say, and I can’t do
Enough to prove it’s all for you

Rain comes pourin’ down,
Fallin’ from blue skies
Words give out a sound,
comin’ from your eyes

Finally I figured out,
But it took a long long time
Oh now there’s a turnabout,
Maybe cause I’m tryin’

There’s been times, I’m so confused
Down my road, will it lead to you?
Just can’t turn, you walk away

Its hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say, I can’t do
Enough to prove it’s all for you

Well it’s hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say, I can’t do
enough to prove, it’s all for you

Hard to say
Hard to say, it’s all for you

Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield

I am unwritten, can’t read my mind, I’m undefined
I’m just beginning, the pen’s in my hand, ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten Oh, oh, oh

Roll to Me – Del Amitri

Look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped itd be
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me

Look into your heart pretty baby,
Is it aching with some nameless need.
Is there something wrong and you cant put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me

And I dont think I have ever seen a soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?

So dont try to deny it pretty baby,
Youve been down so long you can hardly see
When the engines stalled and it wont stop raining
Its the right time to roll to me

Look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped itd be
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me

I tripped across this video today… The song is ‘Rivers of My Soul’ ! Way cool…

I hear in color.  I learned from a neurologist that isn’t as bizarre as it seems, it’s a form of sensory cross-over.  Sound simulates the part of my brain that stores visual memory.

Music. Ah. My first passion, my truest love.  I’ll share with you my all time favs here as well as whatever’s got my foot tapping at the moment.  Along the way, I’ll share some personal insights and things I’ve learned on my life journey.  Turn up the volume!

Celtic ~

Wiccan Dance – Loreena McKennitt
Theme from Braveheart – Clannad
The Moon and St. Christopher – Mary Black
No Frontiers – Mary Black

 Bang Your Head ~

We Want Fun – Andrew W.K.
Birdland – Maynard Furgeson

 Doesn’t get any more fun than this ~

My Christmas List – Simple Plan
School of Rock – Jack Black
Hanky Panky – Madonna

Reflections ~

Am I Crazy – Rebecca Lavelle
Last Train Home – Pat Metheny
100 years to Live – Five for Fighting
Perfect – Simple Plan

Love ~

Come What May – Moulin Rouge
Into the West – Lord of the Rings
I Would do anything for Love – MeatLoaf
Women of Ireland – Bob James
This Kiss – Faith Hill
Why can’t this be Love? – Van Halen

Heat ~

Heat – Rebecca Lavelle
Little Red Corvette – Prince
Hanky Panky – Madonna
I can’t get no Satisfaction – Britney Spears
Red Light Special – TLC

Alice’s Restuarant. Ever hear it? It’s a riot. A Thanksgiving classic at my house.  And in keeping with Arlo Guthrie’s spirit, “But I didn’t come here to tell you about Alice… I came to talk about…. spirituality.” lol!  Aw, go listen to the song.  You’ll get it.
 
I lived my twenties as a music major in college. When I started down that road, I thought it would just be a kewl job.  I had no inkling that I was responding to the call of it’s mystical nature and it was resonating like a bell inside me. 
So I studied music theory and music history like all good freshman do, I took site singing and composition and principals.

And gee, I learned that Western music in linear in construction, meaning it has a beginning, a development, and an end.  It’s a straight line. Eastern music by contrast is cyclical.  It doesn’t have any defined ending, it merely wraps back around on itself, returning to it’s beginning, ready to repeat again and again.  Sort of like reincarnation… a Eastern belief. As contrasted with Western beliefs that say your born, you live and you die. The End. Nice straight line there. And I thought, wow! Isn’t THAT kewl.  The music reflects their culture, their beliefs.

And then I discovered music is an art that doesn’t really exist anywhere’s but in your head.  Think about it.  It’s not like a sculpture you can touch, or a painting you can see in it’s entirety… it’s not like a meal you can taste and smell.  Music is a series of notes, tones that occur in a particular order *in time*.  You *can’t HEAR* the whole song at any given moment, you can only hear that one tone that is playing right then.  But your BRAIN assembles those tones second by second, all the tones you’ve heard, into a continuous melody, and you respond to that melody. All in your head.

If that isn’t mystical/magical enough for you, consider Musica universalis – or ‘Music of the Spheres’. It’s an ancient philosophical concept dating back as far as Pythagoras and the Greeks that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies — the Sun, Moon, and planets — as a form of music.

This ‘music’ is not literally audible (well to some of us it is!), but a harmonic and/or mathematical concept. Semi-mystical, semi-mathematical. The astronomer Johannes Kepler said the connection between geometry (and sacred geometry), cosmology, astrology, harmonics, and music is through musica universalis.

Kewl, kewl stuff.

And did you know all the Western music you’ve ever heard was all composed with just 12 notes? The same twelve notes. Beethoven, Mozart, Britney Spears, Led Zepplin. Now if THAT doesn’t make ya go Hmmmm, I think you should get to the hospital and have your life signs checked!

Listen: Why can’t this be Love? – Van Halen

Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don’t know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much

Tell me why can’t this be love
Baby why can’t this be love
Got to know why can’t this be love
I wanna know why can’t this be love

Everyone has a lost love. It’s okay to mourn.

for my Penny.

Listen: Am I Crazy – Rebecca Lavelle

Maybe I was wrong
Maybe I’m to blame
I thought I’d see you and it would be the same
When I look at you
Dunno know who I see
It is someone new or just a memory
Days drift by
Sometimes I cry
Never really understood
I always thought that you’d be there
Was I crazy, crazy?
Sometimes……its so unfair
Don’t know where I am
Don’t know where is home
Don’t know much at all
But it ain’t much fun alone
Guess I’ll work it out
What else can you do
Maybe life goes on with one instead of two
Days drift by
Sometimes I cry
I never really understood
I always thought that you’d be there
Was I crazy, crazy?
Sometimes……its so unfair