Packes Syrra

Music can make me feel the way I once did. It can bring me back to the same state of mind in the first drum beat or chord. 

I use music to process my feelings - happiness, sadness, love and hate and sometimes it creates like little mental scars. Every time I hear that music those feelings come rushing right back. It's like I placed my feelings in that patricular music and listening to it later activates those feeling again. Like mentally travelling in time. It's an automatic reaction that I cannot control.

Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it's not. 

It's a good thing, when it takes me back to an awesome moment, for example when it takes me back to Download Festival, I can feel the mud under my wellies, a raindrop finds its way inside my rain poncho running down my back, I can taste the food I had and feel all the emotions I had while standing in the crowd. Or that feeling when you've just stepped inside the festival area... 

It's not, when it makes me feel that misery, that broken heart, loneliness or the emptiness... In one of my "recent" posts I wrote a little about "Hozier - Arsonist's lullaby". Sums it all up pretty well.

I can always relate to the music I'm listening to, in one way or another. Not just the lyrics, but to the music - like the drum beat or the riff for example. It is amazing how music can speak my feelings without using words and how someone can express my feelings better than myself, just using their instruments/voice.

One of my favourite lines is from KoRn - Twisted Transistor:

"A lonely life, where no one understands you. But don't give up, because the music do"

It's comforting because it makes me feel like I will never be alone, as long as I have music...