Music

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Nietzsche (The Twilight of the Idols)

Surely many have heard the famous maxim above. It's one that I tend to agree with, although I would classify music and poetry as a whole new entity entirely, but (perhaps) more on that another time. In the end, sadly, life is so often a painfully crude, dull, painful experience that we need the very few saving graces that are given to us - and music is one of them in my view. What brought this philosophical turn of mind about was the rather commonplace act of downloading, from i-tunes, 'Read my Mind' by the Killers. I don't find the lyrics mind-blowing, but luckily this song has some great tunes to fall back on. And then we get to the line
I pull up to the front of your driveway
With magic soakin' my spine

And yeah, good work Killers.... I can feel the dreary commonplace world pull away, the excitement, the 'in-the-moment' aliveness of pulling up to a driveway on a first or second date, and everything is quite aware and alive, and I feel the magic soaking my spine. In this moment of feeling, life certainly doesn't feel like a mistake.
And, for those interested, the video is, or was here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oec8RuwVVs
In any case, just one of those lines that makes you sit up and take notice. Kudos, Killers.