An Die Musik

Du holde Kunst, in wielveil grauen Stunden,
wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis unstrickt,
hast du mein Herz, zu warmer lieb enzunden,
hast mich in eine bessre Welt enrückt,
in einer bessre Welt enrückt!

Oft hat ein seufzer, deiner Harf entflossen,
ein süsser heiliger akkord von dir
den Himmel bessrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür,
du holde Kunst, ich danke dir!

-poem by F. von Schober, music F. Schubert

this is the song i have to perform on Monday at music assembly. Yet, somehow I keep forgetting the words to this beautiful song. This is the translation:

you holy art, in how many gray hours
when I was ensnared by life's turbulant orbit
have you kindled my heart to warm love,
have you carried me off into a better world!

often has a sigh flowed from your harp
a sweet, divine chord from you,
the heaven of better times unlocked to me
o holy art, I thank you for that
o holy art, I thank you!

Philosophy of Death

when we're facing the sunset
we're admiring its beauty.
If we all can see the beauty in Ending
there must be reason to believe
in the beauty of death.
for the setting of the sun always leads us
into the night,
but thereafter, an even longer day




really random, I know. but i was looking through my old poems and i wanted to share this with whomever might be reading

"I want to swim away...

but don't know how
sometimes it feels just like i'm falling in the ocean...
............................
I'm reaching for the life within me"
Blue October

I don't know why I getting this way again. but it's just like I can't figure out what it was I was doing here anymore. I don't want to study this anymore. I don't want to become a musician, however a quasi-excuse for one i might be now. I guess I was never really sure that's what I wanted in the first place, I was just here because it was better to have some kind of idea than no direction at all, right? It's not really the life I want anymore. but there's really no life I can imagine that I want, so what would i do if i didn't do music? god knows.