What's in A Song?

February blog Post @ thesoutherncopywriter.com/blog

What’s in A Song? I’ve had so many ‘favorites’ over the years. Right now, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’s Gonna Leave You is serenading me while I write. “I know a true love, true love, A True Love is hard to find.”

I’ve always had a rather eclectic love of music. When I was younger, I thought that each different genre I found and fell in love with was a reinvention of myself. I overheard my parents telling someone once, “it’s just a phase.” That was probably around the time my dad broke all my Rap CDs and threw them in the trash, “where such filth as that belongs.” It wasn’t until I was well into adulthood before I realized that it’s not only okay to listen to different genres, but that’s actually what music lovers do.

My favorite music? Live Music, I love it! I find myself gravitating towards it, if ever it’s within earshot. There’s nothing like it! Give me a barstool, a beer, and some live tunes…and I’ll close the place down, guaranteed.

One of my favorite songs, for many years, is Stone by Whiskey Myers. “The night is my companion, the highway is my home. Got me seeking for one last beacon, every single place I roam…” I was in a baaad way, out on a lonesome Wyoming interstate when I heard Stone for the first time. And I don’t know if anything has spoken such truth to me, as did that song, on that miserable day. I came undone.

“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” -Taylor Swift

A Song can be your best friend. A Song understands you like no one else. A Song will comfort you, it’ll cry along with you. A Song will get just as pissed off as you are! Or even scold you at times, reminding you what’s important in life. It’ll pray with you. A Song can touch you, caress you, it can pick you up and dust you off and say, “you’re going to be ok. You’ve got this!”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau

A Song can give you strength and courage. It can be the armor you put on to face your troubles. But I think most of all, A Song is Love.

“A Song gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” -Plato