dearmadine wrote:maartendas wrote:dearmadine wrote:This really is a song of life that almost reconnected me to the long-lost memory of the very beginning of my life. It helped me imagine how things must have been when the song of my life formed as it finds the harmony (which would be my family). Then every word in this song becomes so personable and tears well up in my eyes as the chorus arrives. What a splendid 100-second that inspired me to appreciate all the great people I have in my life and the amount of love they have for me. Even the line, "Love plays along in our lives yet to come," how optimistic!
It's testimonies like these that really prove the worth of Libera as more than just the beautiful music.
For me Song of Life is also becoming one of my top favourite Libera songs already, and part of the reason for that are the lyrics. "There's a whisper in the dark as a new life comes to be" - it's like the beginning of creation. From a whisper to a tune, to harmony, to words that rhyme - where "another lends a tune and their voices now combine" - making the song together, a message of hope for the future... And Libera embodies all of that. "with the chorus of sound of the world all around" - So beautiful...
Aw Thank you maartendas! I can probably jolt down an essay when the full version comes out lol. I think Song of Life will give you another level of experience if you're religious. There's just so many beautiful metaphors. I can imagine how it will touch a religious person's heart
Yes, I could write a lot more about it too
I also love "we shall never be alone as we link our hearts in one" - those are words, when I hear them - or sing them to myself, as I have been doing a lot lately
- that I am reminded of their meaning and importance and that I want to try to live by them. The same goes for "a song begins to form as it finds the harmony" - that's practically a recipe for life..!!
Often Libera songs remind me of values and beliefs that I hold dear, but tend to disappear in the busy or difficult day to day life, and they allow me to reflect on those things in a beautiful way. Their songs can comfort and reassure me, encourage me, inspire me... And just listening to Ralph sing this, with such joy and sweetness - gladness is actually the right word I think... it adds so much more to the meaning. You could read the lyrics as a poem, and take meaning from them, but hearing them, put into practice as it were, really makes them come alive.
And "the endless song of life" - yes I do see that in a religious way. It puts me in mind of the Jewish people in exile who sang their stories of how they believed God made the world, how they believed in God - the words of which we now know as the book of Genesis in the Bible. Words that were originally sung, generation after generation, in order to keep their faith alive - telling of the breath of God breathing life into man so that man may be happy and free. It is exactly this feeling that I get when I hear Song of Life (the "whisper in the dark" - which is the same whisper that starts any creative process to this day - whether it is writing a book, building a house, starting a friendship, etc). For me, there is a direct link between that first breath of God, that first dawn of life, and this song here, now. Libera's Song of Life is like an echo of that ancient song of life that is still being sung day after day, through us and by us, as notes on God's score.
That is how I see it, the way I would describe what I feel, how I feel about life and people. (Hey, I'm a poet, what would you expect
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But - if you're not religious, I think you could get the same things from it as I do - you would just phrase them differently. Everyone has their own way (tradition) of talking about these things of life.
I know all of the above is a far cry from the subject matter of the TV series - although not really - if you think about surrogate motherhood as an example of how life is being passed on to a new generation, and how people can give such an important part of themselves to help someone else. It kind of fits the message of the lyrics.
Thanks Inna 