1. Songs make a bigger deal out of things than need be…
A song takes a small snap shot of life and puts it under an elevated, idealized microscope. It highlights the emotion, adds grandiose metaphors, adds drama, stirs in the truth, and claims to be a story worth telling and hearing again and again. Is any moment worthy of that?
2. and yet not a big enough deal.
The greatest songs ever give us the best possible glimpse of the beauty of the snapshot. I’m not sure a song could ever over-state the beauty life shows us.
The audacity to write a song about anything is a bold claim of the content’s value. And yet maybe every moment is worth that and much more.
