Introducing My Best Friend...

I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they’re falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Don’t say I’m out of touch
With this rampant chaos-your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers... ... ...
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light...

To listen to this song, go to http://www.danceage.com/listen/224-Evanescence-320-Fallen.php and click on #7.Imaginary.

Most of Evanescence fans would have heard this song long time ago. This is one of those songs that never grows old for me, just like 'The Reason' by Hoobastank and 'You know you're right' by Nirvana. Why don't some songs leave your soul? I think it's mainly because you have a similar experience in life that you could relate with the song. Atleast that's what that does the trick for me. All songs come from real people with real experiences in life - they write songs for a reason, for a memory, for themselves, for someone else...isn't that why music is the most enjoyed kind of entertainment in the world. Ever since I was a kid I had a deep passion for music, especially guitar sounds - it has certainly grown over the years and now Music has become a huge part of me. If not for my precious CDs and my Discman I would certainly have died long long time ago. Im being dead honest here :) And why is that....because...

Music reaches my soul like no other thing ever can. Not even my best friend can understand my feelings as much as my music can - that actually makes Music my best friend. It identifies with every chord in my soul be it miserable, happy, dumb, angry,lonely,cruel, loving,scr#wed up wuteva it may be - oh those guitar tabs and my soul tabs are definitely twins and when they meet up, it's pure heaven. Only Music totally understands the language I speak - something I can rarely ask for even from a loved-one. She quenches my thirst for liberty, finds my memory when it's lost, satisfies my hunger to be understood, plays the inner tunes of my cries, reaches the deepest places of my soul, builds a wall of protection where I'm completely free and secure to be myself, is my only companion in loneliness when everyone seems too far away, holds my life with great strength in those weakest moments, assures me that I'll never be mislead, lights up my darkest path with her radiance, rhymes with my life's menace yet makes life worthwhile, 'cos Music, my best friend can be met up with only if I'm alive.

Music is my best friend that gives me more than just friendship - it's a sealed bond of complete trust and understanding that we share. How about for you? What keeps you mentally alive, in tune with your senses and wakes you up inside? Who's your non-human (or super-human:) best friend? And tell me why you chose that to be your best friend. Yes it's time for you to share your greatest leisure/relaxation pursuits with me. In other words, what are your most pleasurable and healing means of escape to reality? Yes I said escape TO reality, not from :) Because to me reality is that...my best friend Music, for she's the only one that breathes and speaks reality, and can escape anytime to, from this messy illusion. My Music, thank you for being there for me in both good and bad times - no one else ever did that so perfectly and without expecting anything in return. I listen to her, she hears me.