Elli Espi
We play music to memorialize, create meaning, and process the events in our lives. We write to decipher what matters and what needs to be let go. We sing because we are happy or sad, free or chained, innocent or guilty… anything… everything. We sing, we write songs, and we play music because sometimes that feels better than crying, or better than a million hugs or drugs or cups of coffee or whiskey. We teach each other how our songs go, and we learn each other’s songs so that we can play together. Music is said to be one of the universal forms of communication and expression. Music is like love and art. It touches the untouchable. It refreshes the human heart and stirs within us a nameless wind, a sound our souls can hear. It’s spiritual. It’s sensual. Songs pass through us in waves, like water, like air, like fire, like the earth. Songs soak into us and change us from the inside. They make us feel things! Whether we feel like bleeding or flying, the music goes on. All of the songs in this lyric book come from an experience, a place and time that we can return to together any time, again and again. I invite you to freely participate in this lyric book both actively and passively. You can envision what my stories sound like, what those scenes looked like, and then you can change everything around to make them your stories. Give these lyrics new melodies, new memories, new associations. Change the key, modulate it to fit your life, add new dynamics, unique to your own imagination, your thoughts, your feelings, your heart and soul. We can sing together or hum, or speak the words like poetry. Thank you for picking up a copy of this lyric book. If you’ve ever written a song, or want to write one in the future, please share it with me. Let’s play together someday.
