Your Temple

Ever hear a song that just evoked pure emotion from you? For me there are many. That is one thing that has always pleasantly surprised me about myself. Even being a strong and confident women, when I hear certain songs…it can bring a tear to my eye in an instant.

Maybe I am rare or maybe I am the norm, but music just evokes emotion in me and some songs just open the floodgates of my heart. Recently it is the song One but the version that is a duet between U2 and Mary J Blige. I am a big fan of both artists but the two of them together is lethal!

The song starts slow as always with Bono’s familiar voice and your memory pleasantly remembers the melody. Then it happens and you realize the song is slightly different. The second verse comes and you hear her voice. And it hits you straight in the chest. You turn the volume up higher.

She sings and emotional pain just screams out from the words. It takes your breath away and you feel the lump form in your throat. You sit there in shock and awe and you begin to feel every emotion sweetly pouring out of her mouth. You take it all in. Every sweet melodically dramatic note. Just read the lyrics once and then imagine them signing it…

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame?

You say one love, one life
It's one need in the night
One love, get to share it...
Leaves you darling, if you don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without

Well it's too late, tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus,
To the lepers in your head?

Well, did I ask too much, more than a lot?
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got.
We're one, but we're not the same
Well we, hurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love is a higher law
Love is a temple
Love is the higher law
You ask me to enter
Well then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters and my
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...
One love


As you listen, you begin to feel that sympathetic and euphoric rush of your mind catching up to your heart that already leaped in that pure moment. And depending on your mood….it will take you to a distant memory of the best time you have known or remind you of a nightmare you just can’t escape.

Maybe that is deep. But damn, shouldn’t it be that way? Life can be as dull or intense as you are brave enough to allow yourself to feel while always maintaining emotional control of yourself. And that stands for each day or hell; each moment of that day. Because my friends, today…well it just happened to you.

Without your control, it happened. Will it happen again? Not this day. Something similar yes but you will never live this day again. It is the greatest and yet scariest thing I can point out to you. What you choose to do with that fact is your decision. Me… I am going to sit back, smile and hit repeat allowing myself to listen to that song one more time, anticipating the floodgates to pour open yet again.

Until next time.

Christy


Currently listening : The Breakthrough By Mary J. Blige Release date: 20 December, 2005