So, I am up late tonight, actually being productive in the way of cleaning things up around my place. Yay me.
I put some Gavin DeGraw on. I haven't listened to him a few months. It's been a good 3 years since his album came out, he should put out something new. You know, I have seen him live 3 or 4 times. That's more than most people I've seen live. There are artists I love much more than him that I haven't even seen once yet. But that is beside the point.
I was listening to Gavin do his thing and I thought "he must have been high or he's gotta be out of his damn mind." Some of his stuff doesn't make any friggin' sense. For example, he busts out with the line "and the sky opened up, with the soil of the sun..." WHAT?
I've heard him sing the line 100 times before and it didn't make much sense then, but I just thought, wow, some of his stuff is like looking at magnetic poetry on a fridge. The line I used in the title is actually from a song called "Chemical Party" that actually does make sense.
I thought of other artists I listen to who spew stuff that doesn't always make sense - Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes...sometimes these rock artists can get away with saying...well, nothing(!) because their music is so fantastic. I'm really drawn in by lyrics, so songs that tend to be closest to my heart, so to speak, typically make sense. But a day rarely goes by that I'm not singing a song by one of the aforementioned bands with all the power I can muster.
I don't know what the purpose of this post is. I guess I was thinking about how much better these bands are overall than Gavin DeG is...so I'm less likely to go "what the f--- does that mean?"
I'm sleepy now, so I'm not going to try to make this make sense. Just another random musical musing.
And for the YouTube addicted, here is a video by the RHCP for "By The Way" one of those songs that doesn't make too much sense.
Sometimes when I watch this video, I like to imagine that it's me in the cab and I have to be saved by my awesome rockin' friends. If I don't see the Chili Peppers live before I die - well, I won't be able to say I really lived. I'm just saying.
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