Saturday, January 24, 2015

The 'Perfect' Love Song?

There is no such thing as the perfect love song in it’s absolute entirety…except, maybe, to the one who wrote it. But once it’s unleashed upon the world our natural cut & paste reactions get to work snatching lines here and there to satisfy the internal root map we never cease building from birth to death. The head selects various lyrics of relevance and translates them into recognisable chunks of biographical emotion so the heart can embrace and appoint them as the standard bearers of our own experiences. Memories require a soundtrack and picture show in order to project the correct emotional depth required to transport us immediately back to a particular moment - and it’s this fine art of selective memory building that we adopt when listening to love songs. A storybook of words ready to be manipulated by whichever narratives our requirements happen to conjure up has no interest, usually, in the entire song. So, while the ‘perfect love song’ may not be exactly that to everyone - we still lift bones from it to sketch our own heart-sparks. We are, as is our nature, plundering plagiarists should the need arise. In other words, every love song is perfect for adopting and customising - but not acceptable in the form it’s creator delivers it in. Sunshine for our suburban dystopia indeed!

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