I once heard that to sing the blues you had to feel it, that if you weren't feeling any pain, you just couldn't possibly be playing the blues. So it makes me wonder, to listen to it do you need the same? Can you listen to the blues and not have the blues?
See, I could make a prayer out of a good blues riff of bass line I listen to. That kind of beat, tone, vocal layering, repetitive rhythm that won't allow you to sit still and those addictive guitar cries, that's what makes me close my eyes and go somewhere completely metaphysical where I can't be bothered by anything aside from the beating heart and soul of music. That's what stops time, or realistically doesn't stop it at all, but takes my focus away from it, takes away the power it has over me. No, I don't think you have to have the blues to listen to the blues, but it certainly takes you somewhere, to sometime you've been hurt or felt too much weight on your shoulders. So then maybe you have to remember what pain or intense passion feels like to really play the blues and when you listen, you just connect.
Sometimes I wish that time had a heart; I wish that time's heart could be broken, that way it would understand the way all of us. Time has no sympathy and sure as hell no apathy, but if it did, than maybe it would slow down every once in a while. So maybe I wish time could play the blues.
What kind of music does time play for you?
