The Essence of Music

I have found nothing better to help me in my writing than the power of music. There is a place that writers need to go to that we can't always get there with our imaginations alone. We must be taken there by a force that we can only hear.

Through music I have always wondered about my first project that is started long ago. Everytime I hear a piece of music, I wonder about it. I can't help but wonder where it would have fit in the part of the movie I would have written about my book and how vividly I could see the images in my head.

I recently found a song written by the band Ra that gives me such an image. While I haven't fueled my works on anything they have sang yet, I'm sure that is only a matter of time when they make me write something that will express my love of music.

It sounds like a whisper
It seems like a dream
It breaks and it falls
It tears at the seam

Suppose that it happens
Suppose that it's real
Supposing you're right
Suppose it won't heal forever

And I will get old and tired
And nothing will get to me
No one will want to have me
Longing to be set free

If only the sun would take me
If only the wind was on my side [2x]

I wish I could see you
I'm stuck in a fog
I wish I had patience
A virtue says god

I wish I had wishes
A gold magic charm
I'd wish for more time
I'd wish to go far away

And I will get old and tired
And nothing will get to me
No one will want to have me
Longing to be set free

If only the sun would take me
If only the wind was on my side [2x]

I can hear voices calling
And I can feel weight upon my mind
You'll hold my hand in your hand
And after I'm gone you'll still have
Time to figure out the things,
The things that left me empty inside

If only the sun would take me
If only the wind was on my side [2x]
If only the wind was on my side...
Wooooa... on my side