woolgatherer

i wake up from a night of dreams that have completely rearranged me. i see faces, i make friends, i fall in love, only to wake up and find that it was energy i embraced in my own mind and nothing more than a figment of my imagination. people so real, images so real, everything, completely real. it can become so intense that i can wake up with a broken heart again and again, just to find that i am still bound by this physical world, and that the beautiful string of events that just occurred was nothing short of a miracle of thought.

i find myself writing song after song, page after page, over the beautiful terrible thing we call love. i've never been more alone, but i've never felt more alive, i've never raised so much energy. it's not something we need to use our eyes to search for, it's not something we need to over analyze or over simplify. it's not something we need to exploit, or take for granted. instead, observe it, and when the time comes, embrace it. connect with it. experience it.

as far away as i may seem to be, i'm breathing the air your breathe.

in woolgather's "per se," there is one phrase that defines the whole album's point, there is one phrase that utters complete conviction and smears it through the track. in hopeless times, in lonely times, remember that "everything you are, i am." we are all the same, with the illusion of difference. we are all made up of the same energy. when you cry, i am crying. when you're heart is broken, my heart is broken. when you're alive, i am alive. in essence, we are not ever alone. we are one. the difference is out in the open. the failure of the human emotion of love is a lack of perception, a lack of connection, a lack of passion. i want to be connected. i need to be connected.

i know this has nothing to do with music, but at the same time, it has EVERYTHING to do with music.

i need to feel the energy. i need to be alive.