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It also bears mentioning that recently I am listening to a lot of music that is sung in languages I don't understand, yet I relate to them just as I do Beatles songs or Radiohead songs or songs by any of the artists I mentioned above as being favorite songwriters. Speaking of Radiohead - one of the bands most dear to my heart - but Thom Yorke's lyrics would not make it onto my Top 20 of favored songwriters (if there were such a thing). Not to say that his lyrics are bad or not significant to the music, but they assume their place within the songs without being dominant. And sometimes its just like that.
Coincidentally, I am listening to a book on cd (in my car driving to work and back) that is about the unique way that human beings respond to music emotionally and mentally. I do believe a response to music is something more intuitive and immediate than the realization of words and their meaning. While that is exactly what poetry is about. They are two totally different things.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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