music is in his bones.

I hope to be able to make music for a living one day. Reading this passage over and over again really kept meaning the same thing to me, my music can take so many shapes for so many different people. I'd like to think that I understand everything that goes into writing a song. But sometimes, there are parts, lyrics, guitar or piano riffs that I have no idea where they come from. Another thing that struck me about the passage we read sacredly, was how he seems to think that not many people really ever hear a song. As a musician that has been in a recording studio, I can say first hand that you can never truly ever hear a song until you've been through the process of creating a song. For example, a watchmaker puts all the pieces of that watch together. He sees watches in a completely different way than a normal, non-watch making person. The watchmaker thinks of each individual part, the escapement, periodic, balance wheel, balance spring... In that same way a un-athletic accountant can't fully appreciate the grace and beauty of a professional basketball player. Just like this, no one but the artist can really, truly hear any song or understand the meaning of any lyric.

I was fortunate enough to be able to record a album this fall in a professional, platinum certified studio, and i know for a fact that ever since then, I can't listen to music in the way. This doesn't mean the songs have changed. It simply means what I listen for has changed. I listen for each individual piece of the puzzle that makes the song what it is. John Mayer's new record "Battle Studies" is a perfect thing to listen to if you want to try and connect with a song. You can literally feel the emotion he was trying to deliver through each not he strums. Which sounds crazy, but if you listen, I mean really listen, I think you can hear it too.

I love listening and re-listening to music. I get something new out of it every time. I think a song is an amazing way to reach people, and also an amazing way to be moved. Although we will never fully know the artist true meaning, I think finding our own meaning is far more valuable.