Anyway, I started to listen to Tracy Chapman’s albums weeks ago based on my walking buddy’s recommendations and she’s one of the very few secular artists I now listen to. It was my favorite song for a while and it remains one of my favorite songs of all time but it was only last year or 2 years ago that I found out it was about depression. I am 34 years old □□) and I fell deeply in love. I first heard this song when I was in secondary school (no need to use this info to try to estimate my age. Case in point – “away from the sun” by three doors down. I have also realized that sometimes it’s only after several years I come to understand the meaning of a song I have loved and sang for years. I used to constantly agonize over what songs meant and what the song writer’s state was when s/he was writing the song and what s/he hoped to communicate to her audience. He said at the book club meeting I attended that he loves music a lot too (yet another reason why we are kindred spirits) and it was music that actually helped him remove the 10-year writer’s block he had and inspired all the stories in the book. But what I learned from that experience is that you may change outward actions by mandates and decrees but you can’t change the state of the heart and mindset with mandates and that’s where true change happens.Īnyway, I read a broken people’s playlist by Chimeka Garricks (Plix if you’ve not bought this book and Tomorrow died yesterday kilode? Epp me support his ministry I take God beg you) which is a collection of short stories and the title of each story is a song title. Though I wasn’t actively listening to music, I constantly sang all the songs I knew in my head to myself boya in a bid to try to prevent me from forgetting them who knows. I didn’t have a relationship with the holy spirit and a good understanding of the bible at the time, so I cried hot tears for a long time and went along with that decision abi mandate out of ignorance. I joined the workforce of a particular fellowship on-campus that forbade its workers from listening to secular music. I don’t have a lot of memories of my 5th year in the university because I didn’t listen to music that year so there are no memory triggers for events that happened that year. I can hear the line from a song and be transported back to a particular place and time when I heard the song. A good number of my memories are linked to songs. I LOVE music and I have loved music since I was 8 and my mum always had the radio on while we prepared for school.
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