Music plays a large part in my life although much to my cha­grin I’m musi­cally inept. I am think­ing about giv­ing piano lessons another go-so we’ll see.

Music is an inte­gral part of my writ­ing. Some-days I’ll lis­ten to my play-list with out feel­ing the need to repeat the song a dozen times…this week there have been two songs that I’ve been lis­ten­ing to over, and over, and over.

The first is Kiss­ing You by Des’ree — sung on the sound­track to the motion pic­ture William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
Pride can stand a thou­sand tri­als
The strong will never fall
But watch­ing stars with­out you
My soul cries

Heav­ing heart is full of pain
Oooh, oooh, the aching
’Cause I’m kiss­ing you, oooh
I’m kiss­ing you, oooh

Touch me deep, pure and true
Give to me for­ever
’Cause I’m kiss­ing you, oooh
I’m kiss­ing you, oooh

Where are you now
Where are you now
’Cause I’m kiss­ing you
I’m kiss­ing you, oooh

The sec­ond song is Ugly Side by Blue Octo­ber, I’ve been lis­ten­ing to the live ver­sion off of their Argue with a Tree album over and over, and over today. The last stanza — (and I mean stanza-there music is poetry) is the rea­son for my con­tin­ued push­ing of the back but­ton on my iPod.

I must have sneezed, on knees I freeze
I mean, I just choked up
But some­how I slept, I dream, I mean
I dreamt of nothing

I’m able to breathe a sweet relief
Now that you’re here for me
A north­ern degree dove into me
Now I’m recovering

I only want you to see
My favorite part of me
And not my ugly side
And not my ugly side, ugly side

So hook up a C.B
Wave a way for con­ver­sa­tion flow
I’m shoved in your cage, to wage this rage
Don’t let me go

A kick and a scream
Is all that seems to mean a lot, thus far
Yeah, I won’t let you on my stage, my page
You can’t know, yet you have to know

And that I only want you to see
My favorite part of me
And not my ugly side
And not my ugly side

I only want you to see
My favorite part of me
And not my ugly side
And not my ugly side

So calm, ohh ooh
And it’s so calm

And now it’s dark
I look for you to light my heart
I’m between the moon and where you are
I know I can’t be far
© Blue October

The two songs are obvi­ously dif­fer­ent. Kiss­ing You– is nice when read –but with out the soul­ful voice giv­ing it feel­ing it’s really just a bunch of words clumped together-I don’t think the “oooh” fillers help much either. Ugly Side, how­ever packs a punch when read, which is why I call their music poetry-because every sin­gle one of their songs is like that.

These two songs have been help­ing work though a few things in my story-I’m tech­ni­cally not even writ­ing this part of the story yet, but I’m attempt­ing to work though some plot ideas and the feel­ing behind these songs help me–get into the mindset-if that makes any sense what-so-ever?