Power of Music

This past weekend I wound up on a road trip so I bought some new cd's in preparation.  Yep.  Compact Discs!  The cigarette lighter doesn't work in my car anymore so I don't have a good way to listen to music on any sort of mp3 player.

ANYWAY...

One of the albums I bought was What we Saw from the Cheap Seats by Regina Spektor.  One of my favorite songs in the universe is on this album, it's called "Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)."  I was first introduced to this song when I realized I hadn't listened to her music in a while, did a quick YouTube search, and stumbled upon the music video.  It's delightful!  I'll share it at the end of this post for your viewing pleasure :-)

I'm writing about this song because when it came on in my car for the first time (I listened to it about 25 times during the road trip because I love it so much...) it made me cry.  It made me cry because it's such a wonderful beautiful song and it made me cry because I'm so heartbroken about all the people who can't listen to it.  The victims of the Boston bombings, the young victims of Newtown who will never get to appreciate music at all as angst-ridden teenagers discovering their favorite bands, and the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

I'm just writing to say I'm happy to be alive right now because everything from listening to a song, to snuggling a kitten, to fighting with your mom can't happen when you're dead and that makes those things special; the good and the bad.  From now on I'll never be able to listen to "Don't Leave Me" without thinking these thoughts and I think it's good to have a way to remind yourself, at random, that life is awesome.

Enjoy: