Onesaddayatatime

when ocean vuong said ‘i miss you more than i remember you’ and when sufjan stevens said ‘and i’m sorry i left but it was for the best though it never felt right, my little versailles’ and when mitski said ‘and i say your name in hopes you’ll hear it in the stars’ and when japanese breakfast said ‘hell is finding someone to love and i cant see you again’ and when madeline miller said ‘and perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone’

i think music is often attached to the body and maybe that's why we will never know exactly how someone else feels about a piece of music. like i feel some songs so deeply in my gut or so tightly in my chest or so dizzyingly in my head, that someone else will never understand that. because the feeling is tied to my physicality. so maybe that's why music is so personal. because it is physically bound.