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Well, who am I? - Just a guy that is almost always especially interested in what lyrics say and mean;. Who is the intended audience? What does the song say about the performer or the songwriter? What impact did a song have on a generation or an audience? What was the ingredients that made up the song - the inspirations, timeframes, specific circumstances when songs were written, timeframes, perfections, re-writes, constructions and all that. I am also fascinated in the role of writers that collaborate to create a new song, such as one for the lyrics, another writer for the music, another person as the arranger, etc.
This is just something I want to better understand as so many songs just un-nerve me in its impact in my heart and mind. Surely this kind of thing is practically universal - so what is it with this magic of lyric & song? I even wonder if I could do this kind of thing myself as I am such a lush for beautiful music and heartfelt songs that resonate so masterfully to so many.
I see that music transcends the movies that they appear in - people remember the music of Simon & Garfunkle in The Graduate more than the movie itself. Obviously the same is said of Saturday Night Fever, the movie was particularly great, but that music was something else. Could you imagine Across the Universe without the Beatles music? It was that music that made the movie watchable (though I know a lot of people still hated it but my point remains).
When someone here's a song that they haven't heard for many, many years, sometimes that in and of itself can change a life and bring back a passion and a re-discovery unavailable in any other way. That's the amazing thing about it, so, how to hook into all of this - to be more closer to it, to be encircled in its warmth and love and feel a deeper joy and freedom - above the clouds that rain the pain, the sorrow and regrets that so many of us harbor in the silent chambers of our hearts?
I find it amazing when you can read a set of lyrics on paper and with out knowing what the music is to those lyrics, you could in many instances, just dismiss the lyrics as unimportant, non-consequential or of little value. Yet when the music is added, the whole thing completely changes and the lyrics all of a sudden become completely new - completely different (and in most cases significantly improved). I guess this is why a song like Moon River is tied to Henry Mancini who composed the music for the song but left the lyrics to someone else (in this case Johnny Mercer). And with A.L. Weber, as the composer gets almost all the credit for his body of work, even though he's done very little work in penning the lyrics for his compositions. Those lyric writers seem to live in anonymous shadows.
My aim then is to get this all sorted out better and establish friendships with other folks who share the same passions for music.
I live in Danvers, MA (near Boston) and work for a software development company in Cambridge, MA. My work is all about providing banks and financial institutions solution frameworks for the better management and prevention of financial fraud and money laundering. (I have a B.S. in Criminology).
