Dream, dammit!

Okay, so those of you who know me well know that I love to analyze music and lyrics like a motherfucker. I listen to the songs a billion times, write down the lyrics, and think about how it makes me feel. My emotions could really go either way, but I always find that after I think about the lyrics and the chord structures, the song becomes way more personal to me. I guess its theraputic in a way and helps me to deal with issues in my life, good and bad, head on.

Tonight I stayed in, and have been listening to music. The same song for about half an hour now and I have really been thinking about this one. This song is special in a way. It's written by a local singer/songerwriter who I know quite well. "Quite well" as in we were kind of seeing eachother for awhile. I thought we would end up dating, but it never happened. He was too busy and we just lost contact... until last week when I ran into him Lydia's.

So here is the deal: we have hung out a few times lately, and he's great. But he brags. It is always like he is trying to one up me musically. There has barely been a single conversation that hasn't revolved around his bass, or touring, or how "jazz is all two fives". I cannot believe he told me that jazz is mostly two fives. That really pissed me off. Jazz is a helluvalotmore complex than two fives, let me tell you! He doesn't even play jazz! We aren't in any type of competition with eachother either because we play completley different genres of music. So his bragging leads me to believe either one of two things:

a) He really does feel the need to be better than me and truly does think he is a much better musician than I am.

b) I scare the shit out of him and he feels the need to impress me by talking himself up musically every two fuckin' seconds.

Me being the optomist I am definatley am going with choice b...

Which brings me back to my passion for music analysis. I have been listening to one of his particular songs for about an hour now. It is really well written. All of it. But he will not impress me by bragging about his musical accomplishments 24/7. I guess musicians are less impressive when you are a musician yourself. I want to date a person, not a musician, and I would hope he feels the same. However, if he could be everything to me in his song that he wrote called "dream", now that, my friends, would truly be impressive.

Dream
Look between the silver lines
of the trees I don't mind trying this out for you
if you ask me to
I'll look high and i'll look low
tell you anything you'd like to know
its not where we've been
but where we go

So let me lay you down
Let me me lay you down
let me lie there next to you
and dream

Until the morning through the night
through bad and good we'll be alright
if we just let go of what we think we know

if you want to set the bar
i'll jump wtih you through the stars
and back again to where we begin

so let me lay you down
let me lay you down
let me lie down next to you and dream
let me lay you down
let me lay you down
let me lie there next to you and dream

let me lay you down
let me lay you down
let me lie there next to you and dream

let me lay you down
let me lay you down
let me lie there next to you and dream
the same dream
the same dream