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“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.”

This is so true for me. I am a lyricist. I relate to words more than anything else. Words are beautiful and sad and heartbreaking and funny and happy and so many other things. They can take you back to a specific place in time. The past, a dream you had, a person that was there with you that is no longer here. What a beautiful thing to have. I have so much to say yet nothing to say at all. Things I want to say but am scared to say. Songs can say it for me. Lyrics are poignant. Some lyrics haunt your soul and others make you dance. I can’t imagine a world without music. A world where there was nothing to say. Music is used for so many things. We use it to worship, to cry, to be happy, to dance, to alleviate the silence. A single lyric can take you back in time, to something you had forgotten. What a wonderful thing to have something that helps us hold our memories. Something that remembers when we can’t or don’t. Something to remind us of a time that had beenforgotten, whether it be bad or good. It’s good to remember, even if it’s painful. That pain helped shape who we are today. It’s good to remember the good times. The time you were in college and your favorite song came on, so you got up and danced alone in your living room. Or to remember a long-lost friend. A day that brought you so much happiness even though it ended in sorrow. Words have so much power, whether they are spoken, sung, written….. They touch a part of every single person. Words tend to penetrate deep inside of us and sometimes have way more power than they need too. Do songs speak to you? Do they make you close your eyes and take you somewhere other than where you are? Do they make you think of that special someone? Do they make you get up and dance? Do they make you worship? It takes someone special to write songs. They have a gift of communication that some of us don’t have the power to have. They have a way of saying all the things. For me, they give me all the feels. They can make me cry, laugh, sing-along, dance, worship. Memories are our window to the past. Sometimes they are to happier days and sometimes they are to sad days, days we wish we could forget. Songs are the conduit to some of those memories. How lucky are we, that we get to experience music? That we have something so wonderful, to say what we are afraid to say? To feel like we aren’t so alone in this world, that someone else feels the way we feel. It’s all about togetherness. Another way that we can feel less alone. Music is forever and I am so grateful for it.