Tuesday, May 18, 2010

"Together We Will Live Forever" by Clint Mansell

I'm not a music person.
I like Justin Bieber and I like singing the chorus to "Horchata" by Vampire Weekend to give the appearance of good taste.
I don't know why; music just never stuck with me the way words do.

But this one,
this one haunts me.
It's so mournful and full of yearning.
The fragility of it is terrifying.
The way the melody runs hand in hand with silence is eerie, yet warm.
It sounds like a song that would be played at the funeral of a beautiful person.
The song is wisps of his or her life, the ethereal entwined with sadness.
The song restores me.