Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Can you imagine how it would be if no soft notes flowed over you? How it would be to never feel those sweetly sung words caress the dark features of your mind? I wouldn't be able to stand it. An aching world barren beneath the sun that rises again and again, and always with no sweet melody pouring down like rain. Like rain falling on a desolate tract of land that stretches on forever, or in some...other such barren place.
That's what music is to me, you see. Listening to it is like walking in the first rain after weeks and weeks of dry dust. It slips down you and touches you in a thousand ways with frozen fingers that are smooth as velvet. It makes the whole world seem fresh and new and clean.
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