If life were a song??

If life was a song what would I be…? Or rather which song will most aptly apply to my life(uptil now)? Well there can be different aspects to this point as well. What quality of the song are you looking at? Is it the lyrics, perhaps tempo or may be even music? Well if its total music quality then probably it would be Layla(unplugged) by Eric Clapton. Well the best reason I can think of is that even though the lyrics are totally in contrast to the music. Well if I base my judgment on the basis of lyrics then the best I can think of is Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd. The lyrics are as below:

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension that’s learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There’s no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I



The song in itself makes me think only of life. How there is a continuous process of learning to fly or rather learning to live life……I will try to describe my interpretation of the lyrics of the song.

The first paragraph describes how you look forward for happiness into the future and move towards it till you move to a point of no turning back. You are all alone in the battle of life. What keeps me going….a fatal attraction to play with life…..learn about it or try to make interpretations about it based on my own experience. Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

But I can’t keep myself out of it(life). So I play it through with its own, unmentioned but underlying rules…..I am tongue-tied i.e. I may cry foul but still my prayers fall on deaf ears. So what do I become…..an earth bound misfit.

I move on and what do I see, unforeseen circumstances…but I thought, I thought of everything!!! Is there anybody who can help me…no.
But I am a fighter who wants to just learn to fly……even if things are against me….can’t just let the distant dream move away….but still feel somewhat out of place!!!!

And if I am good enough I succeed and man what a sensation it is…(am not in quite a position to explain this as have not been there yet!!!)

But this is what I feel life will be all about!!!