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We never really knew the twins, but we still have a poster.
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the twins
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The Leonid meteor shower.
Shooting stars.
Emerging from their radiant.
You and I before the dawn.
You and I in the autumn.
Our two fireballs flare up and then vanish.
It's damn cold in space.
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shooting stars
beyond the stars
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Chords. A tale of two chords.
A major sixth chord (say, C6 which is CEGA) feels like a positive,
happy, chord with a little sadness added.
Now consider a minor seventh chord (say, Am7, which is ACEG).
Minor chords have a core sadness to them.
Adding a seventh seems a little uplifting, a promise of something
better to come.
Pick C6 and Am7 as examples because they both contain the same
notes.
The same exact notes are present in each chord.
All that differs is which notes take which roles.
Which note is the tonic, third, or fifth?
What key are we in?
Your perspective will greatly change how you feel about the facts.
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how you feel
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In electronics, L represents inductance and
C represents capacitance.
An LC circuit has a characteristic frequency that is a function
of the values of L and C.
A resonance.
LC is a representation of resonance, a confluence of ideas that
all fit together here, today. A point in 4-D space.
A place, a state.
A state of mind.
A tank circuit. A magical resonating entity that draws in energy
and re-emits it.
And the minds you interact with, change you.
You change them, you change their minds.
They in turn change your mind.
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change your mind
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Songs can be heard two ways.
(At the very least two, but two will do for this discussion.)
Several songs I know changed that day.
Their tone, mood, urgency shifted.
Or perhaps my mind's resonant frequency was retuned.
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shift
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After and Before.
Right and Left hemispheres.
West and East.
Yang and Yin.
Zeroes and Ones.
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wrong from right
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We've heard the Solar Twins song called "Out There."
Give it a listen.
Then think about Pink Floyd's heartbeat.
Think about the first time you had your own place to live.
The first night you tried to fall asleep in a strange place.
Now listen to the song again.
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out there
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The daily commute deep in road rage.
There are far too many people here.
I need to move elsewhere.
These sentiments are not new for me.
I recall, many personas ago,
upsetting someone I cared deeply about by expressing this emotion.
There are times I feel the need to be not here.
That doesn't mean I can't take my loved ones with me to a new place.
Use your directional indicator, moron.
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commute
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Once I discovered that when you write songs with lyrics,
people around you who hear your music assume that you wrote
the song about them.
Sometimes I did write songs about certain people, but generally
my music was a mixture of ideas about lots of people, and often
not about anyone I knew in particular.
I think when you collect some ideas together into lyrics, the ideas
have a resonance. (Good songs have an entire chord of frequencies.)
If that resonance matches the frequency of a listener's mind,
the listener somehow feels that the song is about them,
or somehow appeals to them at some level of consciousness.
Chords tie us together.
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this song is about you
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One day the chord might have been a C6.
But the next day, it was definitely Am7.
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the next day
it was all so different then
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