Head Songs
Jul. 29th, 2008 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxSomeone asked me once, and then I stopped thinking about it, until just now.
I always have music in my head. A song, a melody, lyrics or instrumental. Doesn't matter, it's just always music. My brain is never quiet. When it does quiet down for a few minutes now and then, I feel strange and incomplete. I ask my friends what goes on in their minds when they're alone and quiet, but nobody ever says there are constant songs. I feel like a radio, switching stations randomly. Here, a song by Sting. There, a song by Tangerine Dream, Then, a song by Lifehouse. Now, a song by Enya. Over and over, different songs, no matter where I am or what I am doing. Always music.
Synesthesia: Songs have different colors too, different sensations on my skin. Words have personalities, physical sensations. I dissect songs and stare at lyrics and wonder at the songwriter's intentions. I am not satisfied until I can interpret the song in any way possible, preferably from the artist's own words.
Tell me, each of you, what songs do you hear in your head? What do they mean to you? How would you interpret them?
I always have music in my head. A song, a melody, lyrics or instrumental. Doesn't matter, it's just always music. My brain is never quiet. When it does quiet down for a few minutes now and then, I feel strange and incomplete. I ask my friends what goes on in their minds when they're alone and quiet, but nobody ever says there are constant songs. I feel like a radio, switching stations randomly. Here, a song by Sting. There, a song by Tangerine Dream, Then, a song by Lifehouse. Now, a song by Enya. Over and over, different songs, no matter where I am or what I am doing. Always music.
Synesthesia: Songs have different colors too, different sensations on my skin. Words have personalities, physical sensations. I dissect songs and stare at lyrics and wonder at the songwriter's intentions. I am not satisfied until I can interpret the song in any way possible, preferably from the artist's own words.
Tell me, each of you, what songs do you hear in your head? What do they mean to you? How would you interpret them?
