Time to dig back into the philosophical, hippy understanding of music. I'm tired of being so disconnected from all of this. I'm tired of being disconnected.
Music is God's way of speaking to the lesser beings. He (or she, or it) gave it to us because there was a bad connection somewhere along the language barrier. There were all, fully of seedy lust and violent frustration that we were no longer near him, and he was shouting down from heaven or space or elsewhere in a quadrasphere that he still was near, he still loved us, he understood us even when we never understood ourselves.
But we couldn't hear him. It came down to us as a thunderclap and a hurricane and a 40-day flood and we turned away.
So he sent down angels that would later be called Bob and Bruce and Tom and Keith and Jim, and they brought a noise that somehow fell into our hearts sweetly and warmly. There were no thunderclouds and there was no rain. No lightning.
But men are arrogant and stuck on their own self-worth. That's why they wrote that God created humanity in his image, because they wanted to think of themselves as godly. And so they took credit for music and misshaped it and created MTV to worship what they saw as their own work.
But not me, not we music junkies. We feel God in its presence.
It is because of "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "Don't Play With Me ('Cause You're Playing With Fire)" and "Dancing in the Dark" and "You Don't Know How It Feels" that I believe in God.
That and the occasional long-burning falling star flaring across an almost-morning sky.
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