07-10-2016, 11:50 PM
Hello Crow,
I loved this. Just the words before I heard it, then the song when I heard the tune. Before I heard the singing part I tried to imagine the tune (love a mystery, can't help making a guess before the reveal) and I sang it soooooo much faster. I think my country roots had me think "fiddle tune" since there are so many fiddle songs about the devil. Then it was the slow haunting thing and it suited the words and the idea. It actually reminded me of a lullaby. I know it seems a bit grim for a lullaby, but do you know how many lullabies are mildly depressing? Most of them. I am watching my sister's one year old and he heard me listening to it and loved it. And I believe children are the purest critics, for they either like something or they don't, without overthinking it.
. Anyway, sorry rambling. I like the simplicity. I like the language you used the "them piercing things" and "yes child" it suits it. And I love the idea, the philosophy or whatever. I've often had the same thought only the inverse, I can't understand how we can be truly happy in heaven if there is not sorrow or pain to NOT feel. I am never happiest when nothing is wrong, but when sorrow has just ended, or been narrowly averted. This idea that you can't be truly miserable in Hell without a little honey to remind you that you even are miserable, it's lovely, and I think you presented it in a lovely way.
--Quix
I loved this. Just the words before I heard it, then the song when I heard the tune. Before I heard the singing part I tried to imagine the tune (love a mystery, can't help making a guess before the reveal) and I sang it soooooo much faster. I think my country roots had me think "fiddle tune" since there are so many fiddle songs about the devil. Then it was the slow haunting thing and it suited the words and the idea. It actually reminded me of a lullaby. I know it seems a bit grim for a lullaby, but do you know how many lullabies are mildly depressing? Most of them. I am watching my sister's one year old and he heard me listening to it and loved it. And I believe children are the purest critics, for they either like something or they don't, without overthinking it.
. Anyway, sorry rambling. I like the simplicity. I like the language you used the "them piercing things" and "yes child" it suits it. And I love the idea, the philosophy or whatever. I've often had the same thought only the inverse, I can't understand how we can be truly happy in heaven if there is not sorrow or pain to NOT feel. I am never happiest when nothing is wrong, but when sorrow has just ended, or been narrowly averted. This idea that you can't be truly miserable in Hell without a little honey to remind you that you even are miserable, it's lovely, and I think you presented it in a lovely way.--Quix
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara