Sympatico

”…Something in the air feels a little unkind….”Bruce Springsteen, Blue Ribbon

Apart from my preference for the gravely ‘smoked too many and for too long’ type voice in a male, I hear other remarkable depths in Bruce’s singing voice. These native qualities then become amplified by the range of the human emotional landscape he conveys through the words he chooses for his songs.

Noting how many awards Bruce has won; I surmise that there is eloquence within his lyrical projections that go well beyond the ‘good song’ and pleasing harmony.

Blue Ribbon was the first song of his that transported me. But how did he do that? I had not heard it before; there was no memory, no association. More to the point where could I have gone? If I was in a place other than where I was, where was there, then?

I suspect that initially my energy field and feeling tone began resonating with the emotion of the song, in a more complex fashion than a tuning fork might, though that analogy will serve for now. In being so attuned, for the duration of the song, it and I became one.

Hearing and becoming were co linked because in essence there is nowhere to go, what ever happened was here and within.

Sympatico,Sympathy,

“..A relationship or an affinity between people or things in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other….the act or power of sharing the feelings of another.

sympatha, from Greek sumpatheia, from sumpaths, affected by like feelings : sun-, syn- + pathos, emotion; http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sympathy

‘Transported’ by the song or sound then cannot denote movement or distance. Though every definition I look at implies that I must be saying that I was moved. I am not and was not. Which must mean that the dictionaries are ‘wrong’ for me, since they are not even close in defining what I experienced.

Movement as it applies to distance is a physical camouflage sensation and I do not move. I might change my mind tomorrow, (I think not) but I believe what happened was that I become like the song, and correspondent with it, like becoming intensely blue.