Counting Crows essays

Counting Crows essays I love music. It opens up a world to me unlike any other. The lyrics music contains seems to talk to me in a very different way, allowing me to walk into another individuals world of emotions. I believe song lyrics can give you not only a sense of feeling for how an individual views issues in their lives, but what their true feelings on the situations are. You can learn, by listening to the words and the phrases, what exactly it is the individual is trying to tell you. Many times on our listserv, various Counting Crows song lyrics have been discussed at some point or another by us all. It seems everybody on this list spends so much time talking about what it is this lyric means, and how beautiful various phrases are. Well, have we ever taken time to stop and think about where these lyrics come from? What has always seemed so odd to me is the fact that we all put so much thought into how lovely their song lyrics are, yet so little into the thoughts and emotions behind them. I believe the music performed by the Counting Crows contains many interesting lyrics. Issues such as love, loss, and life issues in general, seem to just jump out of their lyrics. Because of the connection I perceive from the Counting Crows music, I have recently came under the impression that their music contains more personal experience than some may think. Often in our culture poppy, upbeat tunes are created with catchy lyrics to lure us in. These songs contain lyrics which draw us into believing that how they think a certain situation would be is how a certain situation should be played out, or how it should feel. I believe that the lyrics contained in the Counting Crows music make us feel and connect the way they do due to the fact that they are all real feeling and events. One of the band members must have felt these situations described in the songs for otherwise how is it their lyrics come across so meaningful and realistic? After playing thei...