It's not just music to me

I remember a question asked of the class by a teacher in grade school, "Why do you like the music you listen to?" In hindsight, I should have spoken up. The only answer I remember someone giving was, "I like the beat."

Music isn't just music to me. It's the result of a person ripping their chest open and showing us what's inside. Every part of it is important- the beat, the melodies and harmonies, the lyrics, the instruments used or not used, the vocals... all of it. To me, it is a powerful language expressing things that mere words cannot even begin to say.

At any rate, there is a song by Kutless that caught me when I heard the lyrics (the entire album is amazing, and this is just the first song... Look up the lyrics to "Winds of Change" sometime...):

Hearts of the Innocent

I'm looking into the eyes of hopelessness
They're crying out to me
I see the pain
It's so much more than youth should know
It tears me apart
What can I do to change what I see
This vicious cycle must come to an end

Can't you see, we're crushing the hearts of the innocent
We're teaching them to fail
And how it breaks me to see how we're living
And punishing the ones that need us to care
To see them hurtin
Feels like knuckles to the back of my head

Where have the days gone that a promise was forever
Families stuck together
We wonder why their generation struggles to get by
There's no one to help
What can I do to change what I see
This vicious cycle must come to an end