Taking a stab at blog homework for the first time so here we go and I'm about to get deep so be warned now my loves.
This weeks homework was 'what's your favourite song and why?' Straight away I decided there no way I could pick one favourite of all time, so I'm going with favourite song for the month and why.
When I was a kid I was raised on my the music my mum and dad loved, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds was one of my mum and dad's favourite bands. I remember I used to lie on the floor next to mum as we listened dad's vinyl. When I was a kid a never really understood what I was listening to I guess, as strange as that sounds. Didn't fully appriceate the lyrics, being a vocalist now it is something I now immediately focus on. Due to some complicated family reasons I stopped listening to any music that was heavily related to my dad, but recently I've gone through and re-listened to some of the classics. For the past month I've gone back to Nick Cave's work and it's pretty much all I listened too.
This song in particular hits a cord with me for quite a few reasons. Again when I was a kid my mum use to say instead of 'good luck' when ever I was nervous about something she would say 'sending you the Angels.' When it comes to belief and spirituality me and my mother are very similar and extremely different. The concept of God and 'Angels' was never really something I put my belief in. My mother however was the exact opposite, in saying that she believed in a lot of Pagan beliefs like myself but that's a story for another time. However, because I love my mum and all that I would say the same to her even though I didn't believe it, for me same way as saying good luck but in a term I know she would respond to more. I definitely connect to this song on such a level because of this. In particular the starting of each verse. The journey it takes you to explain something so simple...
"I don't believe in an interventionist God, But I know, darling, that you do.... And I don't believe in the existence of angels, But looking at you I wonder if that's true. But if I did I would summon them together, and ask them to watch over you... But I believe in love and I know that you do too. And I believe in some kind of path. That we can walk down, me and you..."
... That even though you don't have the same beliefs as someone, if you both believe in love the rest doesn't matter.
So there you go. A song from my past that didn't mean too much, this month has definitely changed the relationship I have with my mother and my respect to meet her half way.
Doesn't get favourite song of all time though, that's way to bloody hard to nail down.
