Inspiration - Music is...

Driving home alone

Some music, or some certain songs, can really take you away.  It can be transcendent, take you to places in your mind you didn't know were there.  It can make you feel you're floating away somewhere, through time and space.  I had one of those experiences a couple of years ago when I was driving to my grandmother's house in the little village where I grew up - Frinnaryd.  As the radio didn't offer much that did it for me I connected my own music to the speakers in my car.  I put it on random and it just kept going.  When I had about 10 minutes left to drive this one particular song came on.  I have downloaded it myself, aware of my choice, but I had never really listened to it, if you know what I mean.  The last five miles to Frinnaryd take you through the woods and along meadows on a narrow winding road, passing a few country houses and cottages.  It was quite dark outside, there was no one to be seen anywhere, and it was very still.  I was alone in a desolate landscape with a desolate song.  The song was "Hear My Plea" from the album Out of the Depths by Terry Oldfield.  A young girl's voice, one guitar and one flute, and whales' singing.  As desolate and abandoned as it can ever get...  The music floated under my skin, into my mind, my heart and my soul and the feeling of this total take-over made the landscape change although it still looked the same.  This spell stayed with me all the way to granny's house.  The little welcoming light on her porch and the lamp in the kitchen window slowly turned me back to reality and as the song faded out the door opened and I went inside to visit the most beautiful woman in the world.

Out of the depths 

I have cried to Thee, oh Lord

Lord, hear my voice