'rsdean'...
I couldn't appreciate poetry until I began writing/composing my own songs. Before then, and particularly during high school, I thought most poetry was unnecessarily abstract and vague. Truth be told, I was just about on the
Cat in the Hat level of poetic comprehension

. "Why not just get to the point?" I would complain whenever I encountered a poem I thought was too dense with words, and too heavily burdened with the weight of elusive literary imagery.
But then, when I started creating songs, I had an insight: music could change the 'meaning' of lyrics from one listener's mind and heart to another's, from one generation to another, even. In general, I came to no longer regard most poetry as ambiguous, or difficult. From that point and on, it was easy for me to accept the words as being a different form of music, with their own rhythm, tempo, and 'feel'.
That's the mindset in which I enjoyed the lyrics to your song,
Blue Moon You. The emotion in the music didn't strictly define the subject of the song through the lyrics -- the lyrics took on whatever color of light the music threw upon them. Though I could venture the thought that your lyrics
seem to describe some kind of loss (to me, at least), they could also describe the rush of a life's lived memories that allegedly occurs at the moment of death. They could illuminate the state of mind of someone who's contemplation of the heavens causes them to perceive the
true, wonderful nature, the deepest, inner spirit of the one whom the bedazzled watcher of the night sky loves and adores, and on, and on, and on...
...which makes me think that music is the
truest language as it moves the heart of the composer
and the listener
without words, and that words are our imperfect, often confusing and sometimes tortuous substitutions for trying to express how we feel...about the music
What a conundrum, huh? Maybe that's what 'art' really is: the result of our attempts to reconcile the disparity between what we
think, and how we
feel.
Glad I listened to your stimulating music and lyrics! You carried off your falsetto singing like a champ, and the Real Tracks gave the song a rolling, forward-moving feel with just a shade of melancholy.
Sincerely,
LOREN