FAWM: "For The Sake Of A Song"

For The Sake Of A Song

3 days ago by @carleybaer

For The Sake Of A Song

carleybaer

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Liner Notes

#fuc #meditative #round

I've been fascinated with the idea that music is biologically wired in humans, ever since I read The Singing Neanderthals by Steven Mithen. In academic circles, there are so many gatekeepers, each waiting to exclude certain music for their own narrow reasons: it breaks The Rules, or it's not sophisticated enough, or it didn't take years to write and must therefore be void of merit. I reject them all. Music is our birthright and all we have to do to honor the ancestors who gave it to us is make any and every joyful noise for as long as we can.

Lyrics

This is a song
For the sake of a song
It came out pretty easy
It didn’t take long
Only a song
That I wanted to sing
No matter what, that’s
A glorious thing

Music
Woven in our DNA
To make music
You just have to want to play

A song
That you keep inside
It burns like a fire
Too blazing to hide
Some cut you down
Make you think that you’re wrong
But a song is a song
Is a song is a song

Music
Grabs hold and won’t let go
To love music
Is to love what you don’t know

Comments

@tcelliott 2d

You tell 'em. Crashing the gatekeepers' party and making a muck of it all in the most beautiful manner possible. Lovely melody and vocal and, of course, the lyric hits it just right. I'm loving the dual melodies.

@miga 2d

What a beautiful melody! Loved the gentle background harmonies too - they add cool texture. A great song for the love of music - it belongs to all of us, and I'm glad you widen the circle and invite more people to come in and enjoy it.