When things get back to normal we are going to have memories of this period. Our lives are so different now. But we have still lived. We are not doing so much that we normally did and will do again. We are doing things we have never done before and maybe never will do again. My present "memories" of the present are not bad period at all. Still a little bored but not like I was at first when the water was just shut off. Time though affects memory. When we are out of this time will my remembrance of things past be the same as my remembrance of things present? One memory that I know I will always have of this time is For My Lady.
We frequently associate a musical work with a particular time in our lives, right? Boyfriends and girlfriends have "their song." Music goes right to the soul. It largely bypasses our intellect. A particular musical piece will just hit us--or not. It is hard to explain why or why not. I would never have listened to this song had it not been for this period. I hadn't listened to a Moody Blues song in...30-40 years.
For My Lady is such a loving, devotional song. It is a beautiful song. What will stay with me particularly is the unusual piping Irish (?), Scot (?), Celtic (?), swaying beat of the chorus. It is a "marching" beat. On some recordings, not all, not on the one I originally posted above, but on the one up there now there are, on the last refrain of the chorus, background vocals that mimic a drum beat, dum dum dum, dumdumdumdumdumdum, reinforcing the martial rhythm. For My Lady is a very good present memory, but if in the future my memory of this time is bad then For My Lady probably will become a straight-to-the-soul trigger of bad feelings. Boyfriends and girlfriends break up.
We frequently associate a musical work with a particular time in our lives, right? Boyfriends and girlfriends have "their song." Music goes right to the soul. It largely bypasses our intellect. A particular musical piece will just hit us--or not. It is hard to explain why or why not. I would never have listened to this song had it not been for this period. I hadn't listened to a Moody Blues song in...30-40 years.
For My Lady is such a loving, devotional song. It is a beautiful song. What will stay with me particularly is the unusual piping Irish (?), Scot (?), Celtic (?), swaying beat of the chorus. It is a "marching" beat. On some recordings, not all, not on the one I originally posted above, but on the one up there now there are, on the last refrain of the chorus, background vocals that mimic a drum beat, dum dum dum, dumdumdumdumdumdum, reinforcing the martial rhythm. For My Lady is a very good present memory, but if in the future my memory of this time is bad then For My Lady probably will become a straight-to-the-soul trigger of bad feelings. Boyfriends and girlfriends break up.
