(#5128) The stories told in our music

      I cannot even imagine what life would have been like without the music of my generation. The sounds that rocked the world as we knew it. Sure sports were good to follow on radio and television but there has been nothing to me like the music of our generation. Blasting it loud and often was our motto. The groove we felt and still feel in our soul is incomparable. To this day we can get lost in the lyrics and instrumentations that were brilliantly combined through an eye for entertaining and informing. The music of our generation was mainly a protest to the state of affairs we found ourselves in. Improving our lot while hammering it home with the sounds of our time was and still is a priority for us.
     The poets of our day were not writers of single lines combined on paper for books that get dusty on the shelves. No, our poetry was placed on the musical sheets for combining with melodic composition into magnificently powerful sounds. The kind of sounds that ripped far and deep into our bone marrow and the words that stung us with their truth and clarity. The music of our time could stop us in our tracks and force us to reconsider all that existence offers. Our priorities were and still are shaped by the message and sound from some of the most influential artists of our time. I cannot image who I would be without the panoramic view our music exposed.
     Like the Allegory of the Cave in The Republic by Plato. Having not so much our eyes opened but our ears. The metaphors abound in our music. It isn't just the simple lines of words and their meanings but the bigger picture they also incorporate. Our music was and is the most prolific lesson of experiences and paradigms to absorb into who we are and will ever be. There is more to life than music but with no music in our lives we are so much less amazing and complete. The power of our music has changed our society from acceptance and subservience to protest and leadership. We drew unimaginable breath from the words and melodies of our time and shaped our lives accordingly.