Make them sing to me instead!

The most fascinating thing I find about music is the ability it has to translate my heart and soul perfectly when I am not able to. For everything I don’t know how to say, there is a song waiting to say it for me. And sometimes In silence and alone I listen to them imagining that I am saying those thingss to the people I want to say stuff. And I'm 32 now, just imagine when I was 16 🤪

Very often I wonder what the songwriters  of some songs have been through to be able to write them 🧐

Cause it's unbelievable the similarity of the lyrics in what I feel in my life sometimes ☝🏻

I like to think that the stories they’re  singing about are always the same. And only the characters are different. In this case, the characters are all of us. 

There’s some albums that I’m listening on repeat for the last 4 weeks. One of them is called “Peace” by Bethel Music and it has literally healed my mind and soul during times of social isolation. It’s one of my favorites. Talks about our relationship with heaven, faith and hope. There’s also an album called “without words - Genesis”, also from Bethel music that is just so precious to me. The songs are all instrumental and makes me go to heaven and back. I use to lay down on my couch or to put my earphones on and listen to them before to go to sleep, and I’m refreshed every single time I listen to it 🙏🏻

The last album I'm listening a lot lately  is called “Sing to me instead” from Ben Platt. I felt in love with this guy and his voice since I’ve watched “The politician” on Netflix 😍 (if you never watched it, give it a try). From this album there’s some tracks that makes me almost to bleed inside. It’s unbelievable how they’re able to shake my deep core 😐

”Bad habit” is the first track on the record and it totally breaks my walls. Makes me see my weaknesses and places me in a position of self acceptance, seeing clearly my co-dependency of others and uncomfortably revealing how my abstinence is still there. Makes me admit again to myself the things I need to work on in order to become fully free. 

The second track is called “Ease my mind” and I usually listen to it in the sequence. In my mind they make sense together. ”Grow as we go” is the fourth track of the Album and gives me an empathetic feeling, I feel vulnerable, in a dreaming mood. 

After these 3 songs, all the melancholy and self pity  opens space to the anger I was left with, and I reach a fever pitch to the beats of  ”New”  which is the seventh track on the album; and I can clearly remember some stuff again. If that song wasn't in the album to remember me why I do what I do in my interpersonal relationships, I would probably feel more pathetic than I already do. ”In case you Don't live forever” is the track number 10 and for the first time on this album it does not necessarily represents what I feel or want to say. But I like it anyways. 

It talks about someone that took too long to show it's feelings and emotions, and now, wants the other person to know that he’s sorry. It Has a nice melody and feels like the most vulnerable song he wrote for the album. It’s never easy to admit when we’re wrong, and that’s what he does in this song. Respect! 🙌🏻

Ben Platt made a brilliant album! 😊 

I like all the songs on it, but these ones I wrote above are the ones that I directly feel linked to. And I believe that after ”The Thrill of it all” by Sam Smith, ”Sing to me instead” is the first album that a guy wrote deliberately openly about another guy that I hear in the last years. That's maybe why the lyrics on both albums are so raw and organic and speaks perfectly to me. There’s always a guy who will break your heart. And there’s always you, who will break someone else’s heart. 

So, that was it. I had nothing much to say lately, that's why I haven't post anything in here for so long. So, when words fail, music speaks! 

Take care, see you guys later!