Words, Thoughts, and Lyrics

Words. I'm a sucker for words--spoken, written, or sung.
I'm a sucker for lyrics.
Most people will tell you that a singer's powerful or sweet or teary or heart-throbbing or gritty voice "gives them chills".

What gives me chills is lyrics: Beautifully written, thoughtful, thought provoking, personal, honest, meaningful, relatable, precisely descriptive lyrics.
What makes me cry tears of astoundment is lyrics.

Combine incredible, perfectly phrased lyrics with a great singer who is not forcing anything or trying to be anything he or she is not--a singer with a soulful, convictional, down-to-earth, honest voice--a singer who understands that power exists in subtlety and that great serenity and comfort can be found in intensely powerful vocalizing, and you've got a winning, tear-inducing match.

Just the way lyrics are phrased or placed within a phrase in the most creative and touching of ways, at the most effective point within a song, can bring tears to my eyes.

As I said, I'm a sucker for words, which is why I wrote these words for all of you to read. Hopefull you will.

With that said, good night! Tomorrow is another day when a whirlwind of words will be floating around in my head and leaving my sleepless mind all the more restlesss.

-Gina