“Cry Little Sister” Made Me Realize The Power Of Great Music
If you don’t really think about the lyrics, can the music still impact you?
Let’s take a trip back to my younger years — 18 through 23. During these years, two of them involved me being under the control of traffickers. All five of those years involved me really getting into music, especially goth, industrial, hip hop, and EDM.
There was a very weird phenomenon that happened to me during these years. It’s something that I’ve seen happen to other people, though not nearly to the extent I saw in my own life.
I’ve always believed that coincidences aren’t always coincidences. Things happen for a reason. However, I usually stick to that belief for things like running into an old friend or getting fired from a job only to get an offer the next day.
What happened in my twenties, though, wasn’t quite that. It was a bizarre, repeated experience that only truly sank in fairly recently.
When I was younger, songs followed me.
Did you ever have a song that kept popping up in your life, even when it didn’t make sense for it to just randomly show up? Yup. I had it happen a lot. It seemed like the songs in question always had a strange link to what was going on in my life at the time.
So, I’ll explain what happened with each song that “followed” me. It changed the way I saw my writing and myself.