The songs I identify with are the ones that really keep thrilling me each time I hear them. One of these songs is connected to a holiday, which I made when I was young.
I stayed with my family two weeks in Piedmont, Italy, and we hiked and enjoyed the place and especially of course the italien icecream! One day my mother got a call from our hometown and that was when the nice "holiday world" crashed just in front of me. A friend of mine had died in a car accident. Of course we couldn't fly back immediately, so I had to hang around. It was the first time that I lost somebody I knew and I remember that nothing seemed to be able to make me feel better. And then I heard this song and it didn't make me feel better, but it did something more consoling - it gave my feelings a voice. Do understand this emotion you have to know that my parents listen a lot to classic songs (also back then), so that is why I heard a cantata. You probaly will wonder about it, because if you listen to it on the radio, you won't associate this song with death. I think it was my desperation that I recognised in this song, and the feeling of injustice. It was "O Fortuna" from the Carmina Burana of Carl Orff. Listening to it with the death of my friend in my mind, it was the right song at the right time to describe my misery.
I want to go there again this year, I booked already a holiday home at a xxxxxxxxx I wonder what the place looks like from "adult eyes" now. But I won't listen to that song there, it will just make me sad. And I don't want to be sad at such a beautiful place in the supposedly "best time of the year"! I already checked out the best xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Guess I will listen to some more happy songs when I try the routes out.
I stayed with my family two weeks in Piedmont, Italy, and we hiked and enjoyed the place and especially of course the italien icecream! One day my mother got a call from our hometown and that was when the nice "holiday world" crashed just in front of me. A friend of mine had died in a car accident. Of course we couldn't fly back immediately, so I had to hang around. It was the first time that I lost somebody I knew and I remember that nothing seemed to be able to make me feel better. And then I heard this song and it didn't make me feel better, but it did something more consoling - it gave my feelings a voice. Do understand this emotion you have to know that my parents listen a lot to classic songs (also back then), so that is why I heard a cantata. You probaly will wonder about it, because if you listen to it on the radio, you won't associate this song with death. I think it was my desperation that I recognised in this song, and the feeling of injustice. It was "O Fortuna" from the Carmina Burana of Carl Orff. Listening to it with the death of my friend in my mind, it was the right song at the right time to describe my misery.
I want to go there again this year, I booked already a holiday home at a xxxxxxxxx I wonder what the place looks like from "adult eyes" now. But I won't listen to that song there, it will just make me sad. And I don't want to be sad at such a beautiful place in the supposedly "best time of the year"! I already checked out the best xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Guess I will listen to some more happy songs when I try the routes out.
