I know the power that it has had with me. I have cried many times to various smith/moz songs throughout different times of my life, albeit it's been a while. So for me, "getting there" to what's inside with a song is not strange. But take an average person not used to "getting there" and it is pretty powerful.
In my mid 20's I bought my first house. A colleague came over to check it out once I was settled. He was a little older than me and married with a child. I knew they were separated though. We go through the house and we kick back with a beer. His wife comes up in conversation and he is hurting. The stuff he was saying was not revealed in the office. He says she is asking for a divorce. He doesn't want a divorce and he won't let go.
I say, you have to listen this, this has made me feel better at times when I'm holding to tight. I pull out the Queen Is Dead CD. I pop it into the CD player in the living room and play "I Know It's Over". I hand him the lyric sheet.
He is sitting in the armchair looking down at at the lyrics, the song is playing. I am sitting on the couch, safe, understood and comforted by the song. The song builds as you know from a "why me" into beautiful despair of life seemingly given up on and "ending".
I look over and he is sobbing. He is embarrassed and puts his sunglasses on. He has been shaken to the core, it has spoke directly to him and he wasn't prepared to go there. I told him it was ok, it was going to be ok.
He ended up divorced, I saw him get married several years later, and he has never been happier. Maybe Morrissey helped him let go. Funny though, I never played Morrissey for someone in pain again.
Do you have any stories of the power of Morrissey.
In my mid 20's I bought my first house. A colleague came over to check it out once I was settled. He was a little older than me and married with a child. I knew they were separated though. We go through the house and we kick back with a beer. His wife comes up in conversation and he is hurting. The stuff he was saying was not revealed in the office. He says she is asking for a divorce. He doesn't want a divorce and he won't let go.
I say, you have to listen this, this has made me feel better at times when I'm holding to tight. I pull out the Queen Is Dead CD. I pop it into the CD player in the living room and play "I Know It's Over". I hand him the lyric sheet.
He is sitting in the armchair looking down at at the lyrics, the song is playing. I am sitting on the couch, safe, understood and comforted by the song. The song builds as you know from a "why me" into beautiful despair of life seemingly given up on and "ending".
I look over and he is sobbing. He is embarrassed and puts his sunglasses on. He has been shaken to the core, it has spoke directly to him and he wasn't prepared to go there. I told him it was ok, it was going to be ok.
He ended up divorced, I saw him get married several years later, and he has never been happier. Maybe Morrissey helped him let go. Funny though, I never played Morrissey for someone in pain again.
Do you have any stories of the power of Morrissey.