Recently I came across a song by the band Blind Melon, I must have listened to it about thirteen times, restarting it before it finished completely, until I had the lyrics and the chords memorized. It was so strange the song got me hooked and I could not stop listening to it, simply bizarre. Mainly I was drawn to the lyrics and of course I found a way to relate them to class. The song is called "No Rain" released in 1992 on their self-titled album. The one line that struck me was this, "And I don't understand why I sleep all day / Then I start to complain that there's no rain / And all I can do is read a book to stay awake / And it rips my life away, it's a great escape" Books allow us to put ourselves in other worlds to escape our own story even if for just a moment before we fall asleep. I'm noticing I connect this class with music quite often. Mostly reggae, blues, dancegrass, folk, rock, really everything. I dwell on this thought as a possible avenue for the paper.
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