I press shuffle
and an eclectic mix of melodies and rhythms reverberate throughout the air.
From Linkin Park to Eisley to Ingrid Michaelson to REM.
I have always
listened to music constantly. I am one of those girls who walks around with her
headphones in, tuning out the world, focusing on the lyrics trying to find
meaning and truth behind their words. However, when I moved to Romania I
removed the headphones and started letting the music resonate in the air and
world around me. I allowed it to become a part of the nature I am surrounded
in.
There are
numerous reasons as to why I started listening to my music out loud. The
primary one being that I spend a significant time running in the forest and I
do not want to startle the bigger animals aka
brown bears by running up on them, so I play my music loud and sometimes
even sing along to let them know I am coming. After doing this for a few times
I started noticing that I heard the music differently than before; it became a
way for me to hear English out loud and to interact with my native language by
singing. Surprisingly, this little act of singing in the forest while running
or hiking has brought me so much joy, a sense of complete freedom I hadn’t experienced
before because I knew that the forest was mine in that moment. It made me feel
tiny and huge all at once.
The main change
is the meaning behind my favorite songs. I have gained a whole new playlist
without changing a single song by finding new meaning in the words I thought I
knew so well. Previously the majority of songs I listened to took on a meaning
surrounding romantic love in some sense, but now I’ve noticed a deeper layer of
meaning in these same songs. Many songs are a commentary on the loneliness that
humans experience on a daily basis no matter what the situation it. We can be
surrounded by family and friends or completely alone in the middle of a forest,
and we will still long for connection and understanding and that is what makes
music so powerful. It is a way for us to realize we are not alone in our desire
for connection and never will be. No matter how strong we are; we are still
fragile, and that is where the beauty in life lies.
**My current
anthem for the past year is The National’s England.
I suggest that you give it a listen if you haven’t already heard it; it is fantastic
and so are its lyrics.
Someone send a
runner
Through the feeling
that I’m under
For the feeling
that I lost today
Someone send a
runner
For the feeling
that I lost today
Someone send a
runner
Through the feeling
that I’m under
For the feeling
that I lost today
Someone send a
runner
For the feeling
that I lost today
You must be
somewhere in London
You must be
loving your life in the rain
You must be
somewhere in London
Walking Abbey
Lane
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make corrections
Famous angel
never come through England
England gets
the ones you never need
I’m in a Los
Angeles cathedral
Minor singing
airheads sing for me
Put an ocean
and a river
Between everybody
else
Between
everything, yourself, and home
Put and ocean
and a river
Between
everything, yourself, and home
You must be
somewhere in London
You must be
loving your life in the rain
You must be
somewhere in London
Walking Abbey
Lane
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make
I don’t even
think to make corrections
Famous angel
never come through England
England gets
the ones you never need
I’m in a Los
Angeles cathedral
Minor singing
airheads sing for me
Afraid of the
house, stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the
house, stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the
house, ‘cause they’re desperate to entertain’
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