Listen to Pink Floyd a lot, and whenever it gets to the part where it goes Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war/ for a lead role in a cage/, say to the radio, ‘Roger, you didn’t have a fucking clue how a lifetime of compromise can suck the soul dry - but it’s for damn sure you know now.’
The orchestral composition, a memorial to 9/11, started quite tempestuously, but ended with a musical prayer for mercy and salvation; puzzled by her own ambivalance over the piece, she realized she was not yet ready to forgive God for that day.
TAGS: music, god, orchestra, prayer, salvation, mercy, forgivenessHonky-tonk music at loud volume and four cups of coffee may not meet the government’s nutritional guidelines, but it sure hit the spot today.
TAGS: coffee, music, government, guideline, honky tonk, nutritionIt jangles, it tinkles, it shines, it glistens, it sparkles; it is music to my ears.
TAGS: music, noise, jangleThe needle hit the inside of the record and starting scraping around and around, but Sally just sat in her armchair listening to the sound, listening to it go round and round and round.
After not practicing the piano for many months, she sat down and began to try to play and, blissfully, she was not overwhelmed by the woman’s memory, just filled with it; filled with love, uplifted by her grace and blessed by her memory.
TAGS: love, music, memory
When doctors questioned Rudy about why he had plunged ice-picks deep into both ears he scrawled a simple note, “Yoko Ono.”
TAGS: music, yoko ono, icepicks, tortureThe supposedly mature-aged woman rocked her boots along the path, singing and humming loudly to herself with the occasional funky outburst of “very superstitious!” until she turned the corner and nearly walked right into a very young and very, very bemused man coming the other way.
TAGS: music, wonder, funkySometimes music makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you dance, sometimes it makes you hum, but sometimes, oh sometimes, it makes you burn; burn with love, burn with fire, burn with pain.
TAGS: love, music, burnAs she stepped off the train, the Village People’s YMCA started belting out of her iPod and, almost simultaneously, she rounded the corner to see them; the Cowboy and the Indian.
TAGS: music, indians, cowboys, village people“It’s fun to stay at the…”
TAGS: music“The MEETING of 8 would be people talking about the number 8.”
TAGS: music, guest-scrinerHenry strode boldly into the radio station (well, he liked to think it was bold striding) and shouted through the stocking concealing his face, ‘give me all of your music and no one will get hurt’.
TAGS: Henry, music, face, radioSome things just speak for themselves.
TAGS: music, tulips, tiny timIt’s true, no matter where you are in the world, people enjoy inflicting immovable song lyrics into your head.
TAGS: music, earwormI know they aren’t the official words and that The Angels didn’t even start it up, but you’d think somewhere out in this world wide web, there would be the full lyrics.
TAGS: music, no-wayThe world is occasionally so beautiful that it seems to make its own music.
TAGS: music, beauty, light, worldWith all due respect to boomers, only flying reindeer can really croon!
TAGS: christmas, music, reindeerNever mind anything else, any band that names itself Cake is alright by me.
TAGS: cake, musicCamilla believed that poetry and music were the first business of the soul which left little time for mundane tasks such as balancing the checkbook or taking out the trash and, if they could not be delegated to a lesser daemon or earth spirit, ought to be forsaken altogether.
TAGS: poetry, music, earth spirits, daemon, soul's business