My personal favorite is "Beautiful Life." "Beautiful Life" talks about (well) life, how we live it, and the struggles that come with it. Most especially, it talks about the joy that comes from those struggles. My favorite line: "It's living every moment, like it could be our last/ for our hearts are restless/ 'til they rest in love's caress." Whenever I hear this song, I remember my recent Mindanao adventure with the ones closest to my heart. I feel like the song embodies the attitude that me and my friends have towards life - going on an adventure, living it to the fullest, and struggling to become better persons.
"24 Hours" is quite similar to "Beautiful Life." Corrine May asks: "If I had only 24 hours to live, what would I do? What would I do?" Again, the overall theme is living in the now. "It's easy to lose track/ it's tempting to look back/ Fill our hearts with regret/ For all we couldn't do, for all we should have done but didn't take the time to/ But it's not too late/ We've still got today." A song that reminds you that it's never too late but at the same time reminding you that tomorrow's not guaranteed thus, the right time to act is NOW.
And this one's "Let it Go":
"Let it go, let it be/ Don't waste all your emotion on this tit-for-tat machine./ Let it go, let it be/ Let it go." Note to self. :)
Also, last Sunday, I was able to finally see "The Phantom of the Opera" at CCP. At long last! Thus, I crossed it out on the "Things I've Never Done" list. It was such a treat to my auditory nerves. Hehe. I wasn't able to see much of the details of the stage and the actors' facial expressions but it doesn't really matter. It was such a delight to just listen to the orchestra and to the voices and the feelings that are enveloped inside those voices that you can close your eyes and still feel what was happening, feel how each character was feeling, and relate to their emotions. All by just listening. Some might argue that this defeats the purpose of going to the theater where the visuals are as important but to me, the music was powerful enough that you can forget all else. Of course, this is different from just listening to the songs via Itunes or Youtube; there's a certain enchantment, a certain grandeur when you hear the songs sung live, played by a real live orchestra.
My favorites were "The Phantom of the Opera" and "All I ask of You." I liked how Christine sang "All I ask of You" versus the version I got from Youtube. Whereas the Youtube version was soft and sweet, during the live performance Christine delivered it sweetly but with an urgency so rigid it expresses her yearning for Raoul and the cooped up tension she felt caused by the events which preceeded the scene at the rooftop. I also liked how the Phantom, in his despair, sang his part in a thin voice at first conveying his self-pity, his longing and then gradually, in an angry, vengeful tone cursed Christine for betraying him. In other news, I regret missing "Cats" last year.
Happy Friday! :)
*Btw, this is my 100th post! Yay! :)
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