The power that music has

Inhale, exhale.

Listen to the sound of the drums, the melody of the guitar.

They relax your spirit, and you let your guard down and begin to soak it in.

The notes of the music enter inside of you, loosening you into a sway,

Back and forth, back and forth.

You lift your arms; the build up carries you away to a distant place,

Where worries are nonexistent and regrets are forgotten.

The person you haven’t been isn’t engrained into your mind,

Right now, you are content in the moment.

Right here, right now.

You look around you, the people surrounding you, the hundreds of them,

Smiling, waving their arms, singing along, closing their eyes;

You’ve all gathered here for the same reasons:

A momentary getaway.

You’ve all gathered here because of the power that music has:

It has the power to calm you,

To change you,

To instill a different perspective in you.

It has the ability to make you reconsider what you’ve always considered to be true,

To cause you to think for once just in the moment;

Or it can take you back a few years; to the place you first heard the song,

In the backseat of your best friends car;

It can take you right back to that exact road, painting the details of that moment with every lyric and every note.

You sway, you sing, you raise your arms,

Forget the world for a little bit; in this moment, you are here.