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I have trouble listening to music that doesn't have a strong bass line,

there are quite a few exceptions bit it doesn’t really feel alive,

thrumming through my body, the heartbeat,

the lyrics wrap around you, hold you together,

rhythm guitarist keeping you breathing,

guitar letting your imagination and brain run wild,

drummer, the sound of your feet hitting problems, crushing the world,

but no life can go on without a heart to pound,

a bass to hold.

So when they said to me that it would sound better,

with a drummer and no bass,

a guitar solo and a crescendo of words,

I couldn't understand.

I thought it would feel like an empty space,

feeling nothing in your pericardial cavity,

the sound of music can only fill but would not boil,

but how wrong it seems,

to believe I could only feel when there was something physical,

I had forgotten the feel of just skin keeping warm,

cold air forgotten in the embrace,

Forgotten the joy of running barefoot on concrete,

free as a bird with the freedom of a soul,

Somehow misplaced the feeling breathing,

the miracle of the feeling and how hard and easy it was.

You cannot live without a heartbeat,

but if you focus too hard on what that could be,

forget that it isn't only physical with you,

that wrapping lovers bare bodies,

breathing in the air of ecstasy,

that nothing feels as good,

running hand in hand,

breathing labored,

heartbeat fast.