# Music and Life

Source: https://geoffblades.com/music-and-life/
Published: 2010-09-29
Updated: 2019-10-11
Author: Geoff

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I took singing lessons for a couple of years. I was pretty terrible to begin with and I was only moderately terrible when I stopped. But improving my singing was only part of it.  It was mostly about the thrill and challenge of learning something entirely different, and something that’s hard to get good with, exposure and a skill.

As an audiophile I sing mostly to get closer to music.  Learning to sing encouraged me to listen to songs far more closely and get much more from my music.  Some of the songs I sing teach me something about myself, some teach me about all of us.  Here’s one of those – [Aerials, System Of A Down ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iepu3EtyE)

*Life is a waterfall*

*We’re one in the river*

*And one again after the fall*

*Swimming through the void*

*We hear the word*

*We lose ourselves*

*But we find it all….*

*Cause we are the ones that want to play*

*Always want to go*

*But you never want to stay*

*And we are the ones that want to choose*

*Always want to play*

*But you never want to lose*

*Aerials, in the sky*

*When you lose small mind*

*You free your life*