Music saves lives.
It's hard to explain. You don't know what it's like until you're
at your lowest point, and you hear a song. That song just hits
you. Right time, right place, right words. It speaks to you. Like
the singer is talking directly to you. Those lyrics basically
talk you out of everything bad you had planed. They change you.
Save you. Then, you go looking for more songs by them. And you
look up the band members. Suddenly, that band is your everything.
Your world. Your life support. You listen to them when you're
down. When you're happy. Every mood they have a song for. Then,
three years later, you realize you're less depressed. You're
still alive. And you have that band to thank. You wouldn't be
here if you never found that one song that one time. Unless it's
happen to you, you wouldn't understand. Music has saved my
life.
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"See, we don’t really care who you
are,
We’ve kinda got this non-exclusive policy of determining
exactly,
Who we open up to and let into our family,
And then who becomes a part of our united mass of harmony.
And that’s kind of become the thesis to this song,
Through suffering, acceptance, grief, and strife,
There’s no way that your puzzle piece fits into our puzzle
wrong,
‘cause everyone is welcome on this stage that we call
life.
And we don’t really care who you are,
Everyone is capable of looking up and wishing on a star.
So catch, so contagious, this day-dreamer’s disease,
And hope can be your sword, slaying darkness with
belief.
And we don’t really care who you
are,
Regardless of how lost you are returning
from, regardless of how far.
So bring me all the worst of your broken,
bruised, insane.
Because that’s the thing with music:
when it hits, you feel no pain.
No matter what you did, I promise we forgave
it,
When all that’s left is your voice,
you’ve got no choice but to raise it.
All you broken hearts, all you dejected
dreams,
Put your hands in the air, and let me hear
you scream."
-Samuel
Stephen Tyler Miller
Paradise Fears, Sanctuary Speech.