When Music just SPEAKS to you

i normally listen to a set playlist. on normal days, they just pass by as normal tunes, however on certain other days one of the songs would just pop up and hit me, telling me things, as if they were trying to speak to me.

i suppose on those certain days i must have been in a certain sate of mind; or a certain mood, to have to be able to receive these subtle messages within the songs, to feel whatever feelings the singer/composer must have wanted to convey.

i say this because songs that spoke to me rarely, if ever, speak to me again. and certain songs that i find ordinary would spark my interest so much after such conversation that i would later favourite it.

just recently the chorus of this song grabbed me and hasn't let me go since:

ABBA - Whats the name of the game

I've seen you twice, in a short time
Only a week since we started
It seems to me, for every time
I'm getting more open-hearted

I was an impossible case
No-one ever could reach me
But I think I can see in your face
There's a lot you can teach me
So I wanna know

What's the name of the game
Does it mean anything to you
What's the name of the game
Can you feel it the way I do
Tell me please, 'cause I have to know
I'm a bashful child, beginning to grow

And you make me talk
And you make me feel
And you make me show
What I'm trying to conceal
If I trust in you, would you let me down
Would you laugh at me
If I said I care for you
Could you feel the same way too
I wanna know

The name of the game

I have no friends, no-one to see
And I am never invited
Now I am here, talking to you
No wonder I get excited

Your smile, and the sound of your voice
And the way you see through me
Got a feeling, you give me no choice
But it means a lot to me
So I wanna know

What's the name of the game
(Your smile and the sound of your voice)
Does it mean anything to you
(Got a feeling you give me no choice)
But it means a lot, what's the name of the game
(Your smile and the sound of your voice)
Can you feel it the way I do
Tell me please, 'cause I have to know
I'm a bashful child, beginning to grow

And you make me talk
And you make me feel
And you make me show
What I'm trying to conceal
If I trust in you, would you let me down
Would you laugh at me, if I said I care for you
Could you feel the same way too
I wanna know
Oh yes I wanna know

The name of the game
(I was an impossible case)
Does it mean anything to you
(But I think I can see in your face)
That it means a lot
What's the name of the game
(Your smile and the sound of your voice)
Can you feel it the way I do
(Got a feeling you give me no choice)
But it means a lot, what's the name of the game
(I was an impossible case)
Does it mean anything to you
(But I think I can see in your face)
That it means a lot

not expecting others to be able to hear what i heard cuz the song will speak differently to different people at different times. it's really a personally subjective thing. ^^

and to think i used to think that listening to music was a distraction and a waste of time.

ah the ignorance of youth.