Untamed

There's always promise as long as there's music 
Melody and treble with wild potential 
Crashing untamed through the depths of the den 
you retreat into when you're feeling animal 

To keep your peace, tuck under your wings 
Hide from any eyes by averting your own 
Taking some time to be at home being alone 

There's always power as long as there's lyrics 
or instruments singing with pre-verbal meaning 
You get it somehow, somewhere deep down 
It's sound that saves, salvos a message for 
each listener individually and imparts core truth to everyone instrinsically 

You realize you've always been missing 
this particular storm of sonics 
Until musicians sense them and go after them 
songs are long lost spirits 

Dropping under surfaces, dropping into trance 
Bearing witness to a network of myriad longings 
Taking rapture's hand to dance 

I'll never be unmoved by the scathing soul of
rock and roll, never be too deaf to slow my stroll and appreciate hip hop's flow
Never presume to interrupt the 
enlivening blast of riotous guitar 
Never fail to get goosebumps when 
a frontman nails a snarl

It's connection to the other realms
It's celebration of the divine irrepressible spark
It's art that helps you fight to survive
Gives you anthems to sing in the dark
Anthems swelling and sliding sumptuously 
Anthems to spite the dull desensitizing drag 
Anthems so strong the same song can evolve 
to mean new and different things
Adeptly filling different needs
Recognizing silent screams we 
could never quite unleash

Music lets us out of captivity
Disassembles and rebuilds us endlessly
I'm not who I was before I 
encountered my favorite songs
Crank up the eclectic stylings 
and savor the sound of raising ceilings 
at the same time as you blow out the walls

Every time I hit repeat on certain songs 
I come home to some other sublime stratosphere 
It reaches me at the deep down depths 
It hones me just to hear

Refine my chorus, sift a love song for us 
Dare me to show my dedication
To tribute your maniac radiance
Your chrysalis crescendo
Your big bad buckwild bridge
Your winsome worthy words
Your croon smooth and slick 

Oh inward gazing epic finale
Oh operatic hurricane 
The songs you know by heart 
are the songs that know your name
Have always had your number
Felt you in that first interaction and had you sized 
as irreverent interloper impossibly intrepid inviting music's meaning inside to 
bed down in harmonious mind

It's all getting so orchestral
Now it's morphing into metal 
Now it's blending to power ballad
Now melody balms your madness malady
The righteous tide has to roll back out eventually
No don't accept it, play it again, play it back, 
play it backwards to bring out 
a B-side transmission

A story sprawling and expansive 
The  arrangements compact and tight
Music to make you wanna slowly sway
Music to fill you up with fight

It accepts us in, we're lucky
It caresses us, we're loved
It blares off our blindfolds
We're dazed, amazed and drugged 

And no it never has to end 
and maybe it never will
Some of us it lifts to move
Some of us get still 
Not wanting to miss a nourishing note
Not wanting to leave any innovation unsavored Soundtracking our loves and losses and labors

Coming on like a mad god drummer
Mad to know us
Mad BECAUSE of knowing us
Giving us gifts of sleeper sneakers
and crossover smash hits
Both ever unfolding under 
umbrellas of genres that splice and twist

Oh these dulcet deviations
Oh this suite of halcyon
Even if everything thinks it's over
song will birth itself anew 
to rock the next world's dawn