They say sense of smell is the most likely to trigger a memory. I have to argue this. Sure the smell of rain, cigarettes or fresh cut grass do wonders for my mind, but what really gets me is music.Without music I don't think I'd feel much of anything. I think many things would get lost in the past, in the pile of memories I turned away from while distracted by other things such as school that leave me feeling empty and unidentifiable. Tonight has been an odd trip down memory lane. While zoning out tying tabs together, I could feel the moments. It was like I was there. The images fixed in my brain as if I were sitting in that time. A line from So Long, Goodbye by Ten Years that goes "Like a river running dry when the suns to bright." reminded me of a day that should have been good but instead I sat in the grass gazing out into the sky thinking of how torn up I was, that sick feeling curling inside your stomach making you want to die because you hate yourself for what you know you have to do but that everything seems perfect at the moment. You have to tell yourself its truly bad. Then the next line to get me was from Drug of Choice by Ten Years as well. "So what is your drug of choice.
Pick your poison and enjoy." this is the part when the song slows down, and its only him asking the question. That brought me back to standing in the crowd with the sun beating down on everyone after the rain had come and left everyone sticky and gross. I remember yelling those lines and everything feeling perfect. It was really hot that day, and I remember hearing Armor For Sleep as we walked in and walking through the gates and approaching the stage and I was just "OMG!!!" Ten Years has this really swaying sound. Like you're not in the right frame of mind and people are just shoving you and swaying you around in slow motion and you feel like your insides are being lifted up towards the sky. Like you could sing the words to the sky. I think thats what I like about Flyleaf. You can sing the songs and feel the words moving you and when the girl sings she moves around the stage like shes possessed or something. I love that.
Actually thinking about it, the first time I saw Flyleaf and the first time I saw Ten Years was at the same show. Hm.
My hands float up above me
And you whisper you love me
And I begin to fade
Into our secret place
The music makes me sway
The angels singing say we are alone with you
I am alone and they are too with you