OF MICE AND MEN “ANOTHER YOU” | Affection and Memory

 

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Take away all of this emptiness I feel

Cause I will never find another you 

                Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today’s song was a request made by my cousin, Pedro Duarte, even before the blog had this YouTube channel.

                “Of Mice and Men” is a Californian band which takes the book of same name, by John Steinbeck, as inspiration. The same has inspired some lyrics. Today’s song discussion embraces personal feelings and, sometimes, may be related to grieving someone. 

Take away all of this emptiness I feel

Cause I will never find another you 

                During this pandemic we’ve been living in since 2019/2020, it’s been even more difficult to know someone who hasn’t lost somebody who was loved. Maybe it was because of this virus which is plaguing or any other cause. It’s always sad to lose somebody and to feel that emptiness knocking at our doors. 

I still hear you in this house (whispering)

I still feel you in my bones (in these veins)

And like the portraits in the halls (can’t help but think)

I wish you were staring back at me (but you’re gone) 

                Many things may remind you of your loved ones and there won’t be another to substitute them. It’s okay to feel like that because you cared about this person and we were never meant to die (that was God’s original plan), so this is why losing someone hurts a lot. 

So I’ll carry you with me in my dreams, my memory

So I’ll carry you with me, you’ll always be in my memory 

                Remember the good times you’ve lived with your loved ones. Carry them in your heart, memories, and dreams.

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Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Of-mice-and-men-another-you-lyrics

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BLACK SABBATH “BLACK SABBATH” | The existence of a spiritual world

 

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Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh, no, no, please, God, help me!

 

Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today I want to bring a song from a band that pretty much shaped what heavy metal looks like. Also, I was inspired by a text I read in the blog “Cristianismo e Underground” written by Edy Marques. You can find the link in the description.

Black Sabbath is a British band that started in the end of the 60s and, with their sound, they’ve scared some people to the point of being considered Satanists. Today’s song, in particular, uses the “diabolus in musica”, which is a musical interval encompassed by three consecutive whole steps, and better known as tritone, that was considered evil during the medieval times and its usage was forbidden during that time.  The tritone was disliked because of its grating quality, which goes against the traditional purpose of music: harmony and beauty.

As we shall see, they do talk about the existence of a spiritual world but with a warning of dealing with the evil.

 

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me

 

At some point in their lives, everyone has got in contact with a religion. Every religion, in some way, has something related to the spiritual world. The spiritual world is, basically, divided in two antagonistic sides: good and evil. I, as a professed Christian who attends the Presbyterian Church in Brazil, believe from the bottom of my soul in this existence.

Satan is real and he’s ready to tempt anyone who’s open-hearted to evil deeds. Although we all are sinners and far from perfection (we’re always making mistakes), believing and seeking for Jesus’s salvation and forgiveness, and pursuing a change of ways, is what distinguishes good from evil. If we don’t seek a transformation of life, we’ll be haunted.

 

Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh, no, no, please, God, help me!

 

                If we don’t want to be haunted by the evil, we must repent from our sins and keep on asking God for help. He’s the only one able to alleviate our hearts and give us strength to carry on even when everything is difficult and complicated. That’s what Jesus said:

“I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome this world.” John 16.33


Is it the end, my friend?
Satan’s coming ‘round the bend
People running ‘cause they’re scared
The people better go and beware
No, no please, no

 

                It is never too late to seek God and find redemption. Do it now before it’s too late.

 

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Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-black-sabbath-lyrics

“A Oração do Black Sabbath” (Black Sabbath’s prayer): https://cristianismounderground.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-oracao-do-black-sabbath.html

 

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LEPROUS “BELOW” | Mind fields to look after

 

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Every single fear I’m hiding
Every little childhood memory
I bury

Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today I want to bring a song by one of my favourite modern bands: Leprous. They come from Norway and they have conquered a small piece in my heart with their very well written melodies and vocals.

Even though you may notice a gloomy air in their songs, it’s something deep to stop and think about. Today we will be looking into a song that talks about dealing with past feelings.

Every single fear I’m hiding
Every little childhood memory
I bury

Some people are open-hearted to everyone they feel a little bit involved with and are fond of, some don’t and, probably, this could be because of some past trauma. Hiding fears and traumas is something to worry about because it can generate problems in the future, or even in the present moment.

All of my stories are below
Beneath the surface cannot grow
Curled and naked I defer
To shaky thoughts all in a blur

Our mind is a battlefield. We accumulate everything we see, listen, and experience. Sometimes it’s easier to deal with all of this, sometimes not. Dealing with it in our minds requires emotional intelligence since a tired body can rest a night and wake up renewed while in the other hand a tired mind needs more than just a night to recover itself.

You’ve got to be open to treat your mind, seek professional help and, if it’s the case, accept taking some medicine to balance your body hormones to put you back in a healthy mind state.

Sitting on top of the façade
Built a tower to surpass
I can’t remember why I’m here
Only why I need to disappear

Our mind may become a dangerous environment if we don’t look after it. The thoughts we may produce can harm who we are and distort how we see and feel the world, and, in a “protective” way, we fake how we are feeling to others to evade a scenario in which we expose our hearts.

Don’t close yourself to the world. Don’t put yourself in a cocoon from where you can’t get out of. Even caterpillars, after entering this state, free themselves to a new and more beautiful life. Don’t put yourself in a below state.

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FOO FIGHTERS “TIMES LIKE THESE” | About Living Again

 

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I, I’m a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky to hang the stars upon tonight
But I, I’m a little divided
Do I stay or run away and leave it all behind?

 

Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today I want to bring a song that was part of my teenage years and, this band’s influence in my life, is mostly because of my older brother, Matheus.

The Foo Fighters is a rock band that started, firstly, as a solo project by Nirvana’s former drummer and co-founder, Dave Grohl, not so long after Kurt Cobain’s body was found inside his home in Seattle. The first idea was to create a different picture from his former band and show the world what he could do. Well… for the self-titled album which was released in 1995, there’s a single person for every instrument, and now in 2021, the group formed by Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear and, of course, Dave Grohl, have just released a new album: Medicine at Midnight.

But not everything was okay for the band. In 2002 the band almost ended for good (or bad, in this case), while they were having some internal affairs. This song was written even without knowing if they would come back. Time is clear for us: it’s the fourth track in the album “One By One”, a report on Dave Grohl’s feelings about missing the band, and a great message to everyone.

 

I, I’m a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky to hang the stars upon tonight
But I, I’m a little divided
Do I stay or run away and leave it all behind?

 

Every day we wake up it’s a new day. A day we don’t know if it’ll work or not. We can make the best to be a perfect day. The plans, the schedules, the dreams… everything is aligned, but you aren’t sure if that’s what you really want for life.

What can surprise you? Are you happy with what you’ve got in your hands right now?

Sometimes I’ve got this feeling of leaving everything behind and start something brand new, even loving what I’ve been doing for the last decade and where I’ve been living. I really don’t know what is going on my mind, but there’s a calling which may help.

 

It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again

 

Every day is a different fight. Every day is a chance to learn new things. If you don’t grasp what is coming to you, there are low chances of experiencing the best life has to offer. It’s a process of learning, giving, and loving.

Last week, the principal in the school I teach, professor Lylcoln Carneiro, passed away. In the chats we sometimes had, he mentioned about living again, enjoying time, and learning new things. He surely grasped what was in his hands, a graduated in Engineering taking care of a school, who was always learning new things and motivating his employees and teaching staff to do the same. There was always a smile on his face, and he was always saying “good morning, teacher” to everyone he saw walking the halls.

Time is in your hands. You never know when it’ll slip through your fingers. Stop it now and say “I love you” for those near you. Learn to forgive. Learn to live together. If you’ve got the chance to reinvent yourself, do it. Sometimes there will be “times like these”, sometimes there won’t.

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