pleasure spiked with pain.
"Just one note could make me float.....could make me float away.
One note from the song she wrote could fuck me where I lay.
Just one note could make me choke, one note thats not a lie...
Just one note could cut my throat,
one note could make....me die."
One note from the song she wrote could fuck me where I lay.
Just one note could make me choke, one note thats not a lie...
Just one note could cut my throat,
one note could make....me die."
One hot minute has always been my favorite RHCP album. More than likely, its due to the fact that the guitarist for this CD is Dave Navarro, the guitarist from Jane's Addiction. Not only is the man dark and uninhibited, married to Carmen Electra,and generally just a bad ass, he is very nasty on the guitar. His style can be most defined as fast, heavy, and wild....but at times it becomes something entirely different, light, relaxing and just....well, beautiful. This is epitomized by the CDs defiant track, Transcending. Probably my favorite RHCP tune. Purely amazing, and a song I hold close to the perfection of everything I love in music.
But....there is a single moment on the album, merely 30 seconds in length, that is so pure I can't find the words to describe it. Its like this singular piece of bliss thrown into the mix of the song Aeroplane. 2:50. The entire structure of the song is dropped. Dave gently strums this riff back and forth that brings this calming aura over my entire being. I am immediately taken somewhere far from the moment at hand. It is ironic that the song that engages this emotion the most on this album is titled Transcending, because that, in essence, is the feeling elicited by this single moment. It is as though I am transcended someplace where peace exists in equilibrium. Nothing seems to matter. Simply and utterly...perfect. Needless to say, I can't help but repeat this portion of the song over and over every time I happen by it.
Recently, I have been thinking more about this song and its effect on me. I have found myself engaging it more and more over the past few days. And, today, I started to listen even closer. Namely, I began to listen to the lyrics more. The lyrics for this 30 seconds of bliss, while both dark and risque, are actually filled with incredible passion. And, strangely enough, describe the exact feeling I get from this song, but in relation to love. I can't help but smile thinking about it now, because it all makes such perfect sense to me. Is that feeling I get from the small portion of this song not an almost ideological definition of what it means to be in love? Something that takes you away from all the problems of life, a place where you are completely content and overwhelmed with happiness....where nothing else seems to matter but the moment itself. Yes. I think it might very well be. And I think it is almost genius being placed so indiscreetly into the mix of this song. Love, while one of the greatest elements of the human experience, can only exist in a single peice of the overall song of life. There are lots of other things at work all of the time. But, love has the amazing ability to take you away from all of that. And, while time spent with someone that can make you feel this way may always be too short, life has to go on. But.....the time will come again. The song of life is on repeat, as we move through the entire gamut of emotion, possibility, and experience. That singular moment of bliss will return.......just as soon as I get to see her again.
But....there is a single moment on the album, merely 30 seconds in length, that is so pure I can't find the words to describe it. Its like this singular piece of bliss thrown into the mix of the song Aeroplane. 2:50. The entire structure of the song is dropped. Dave gently strums this riff back and forth that brings this calming aura over my entire being. I am immediately taken somewhere far from the moment at hand. It is ironic that the song that engages this emotion the most on this album is titled Transcending, because that, in essence, is the feeling elicited by this single moment. It is as though I am transcended someplace where peace exists in equilibrium. Nothing seems to matter. Simply and utterly...perfect. Needless to say, I can't help but repeat this portion of the song over and over every time I happen by it.
Recently, I have been thinking more about this song and its effect on me. I have found myself engaging it more and more over the past few days. And, today, I started to listen even closer. Namely, I began to listen to the lyrics more. The lyrics for this 30 seconds of bliss, while both dark and risque, are actually filled with incredible passion. And, strangely enough, describe the exact feeling I get from this song, but in relation to love. I can't help but smile thinking about it now, because it all makes such perfect sense to me. Is that feeling I get from the small portion of this song not an almost ideological definition of what it means to be in love? Something that takes you away from all the problems of life, a place where you are completely content and overwhelmed with happiness....where nothing else seems to matter but the moment itself. Yes. I think it might very well be. And I think it is almost genius being placed so indiscreetly into the mix of this song. Love, while one of the greatest elements of the human experience, can only exist in a single peice of the overall song of life. There are lots of other things at work all of the time. But, love has the amazing ability to take you away from all of that. And, while time spent with someone that can make you feel this way may always be too short, life has to go on. But.....the time will come again. The song of life is on repeat, as we move through the entire gamut of emotion, possibility, and experience. That singular moment of bliss will return.......just as soon as I get to see her again.
