Music...changes
We live on music. So they say. I would say that we can die of music, too.
A word is powerful, just as a curse is destructive. A song can give life, or bring death. Lyrics can make you live, or make you depressed and die.
I have always loved music: I love playing it, I love mixing it, I love producing it. What I've always done is mix anything at all, with only the desire inside me to see people dance. That's how the rhythm, that's how the lyrics of songs stay in your head: you sing them, you repeat them like an invocation.
Everything we declare is either good or evil.
Imagine repeating in a sing-song, even while the music makes you dance happily, "I want to die, I want to die, an accident won't just knock out a tooth". I know it sounds funny, but I think it's a clearly lethal declaration. A bit like saying: I wish to die, and putting the faith of your words into declaring it. How many times have you said: you jinxed me (meaning a curse that then makes happen what someone declared with the faith of their words)?
It all closes in the same meaningful circle. I believe that declaring words with faith (with authority, firmly believing them) makes that statement fall on the person, the thing or the event. So if the faith we put into declaring bad things were put into good ones, think of the beneficial effect. Alas, I have to say that we don't manage to put the same faith (as when we're really angry) into the declarations we should make for a healing.
Let me explain better. I'm angry and I declare with conviction the fate of that person, thing or event. I'm in front of a loved one who is ill and I can't declare healing as firmly, with the same faith; instead I remain almost resigned to a fate already decided "by God" [because for many people deaths are ordered by God, while anger is unleashed by the devil (Huh! What beliefs)]
Without going on and opening endless discussions, I'll go back to the topic and tell you that if music and its lyrics motivated us, instead of declaring that Luca is never coming back, that coke makes me feel good, that with money I can walk all over everyone, that I'll shoot you so I'll feel fine (obviously all made-up lines), then we would stop declaring things that get into our heads as statements and bring all of it back down on us.
Does it seem trivial to you? It's a matter of the tongue. The tongue is a rudder, small but able to turn a ship (all this is biblical).
If you think the Bible is a bestseller, then you can keep it among the best books you've read. If you think it's a manual for life, I invite you to read and reread it, not just open it to the page of problems and solutions.
Ironic, right? I know, many people think this way, but this is a step you have to decide to take alone, by your own will, without anyone pushing or forcing you. It's part of life. A bit like being a child and finding yourself a parent: how many times have you seen your father in yourself because of what he used to say and do? If you consider the God you will read about as your father, that will be an example in which to see yourself reflected.
The declarations in music reflect a state that you will then make your own. Listen to your music, listen to those lyrics, and you'll understand whether they reflect you or are unknowingly taking you where you don't want to go.
Music helps, but for a depressed person, music that pushes them towards death kills them. You have to be careful.
In moments of discouragement the best music is the music that helps you take refuge in a victory, rejoicing and freeing yourself from the weight. Hard? Yes, because in a depressing moment it's hard to get up from bed or from the sofa, but you can also decide to let go of everything and start a good, liberating and regenerating run.
Music changes; change the music.
[click on the link I've left below to listen to a song by my friend River (Un giorno di sole) and let me know in the comments if you like it and whether I was right that everything changes]
