the persistence of memory

There is music, then there is music.

Jonathan and Charlotte found fame as an awkward pair with classical crossover chops on Britain's Got Talent, but their rendition of Muse's Unintended blew me away.

I remember first listening to this song in 2007, and it was quite an epiphany for me, because I was in a dark place at the time and this song spoke to me, with its strangely surrealist music video that referenced the painting "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt. 

The song and video piqued my interest in the works of surrealism, perhaps best represented by the painting "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali. A meditation in forms between the lines of space and time, and between the realms of dreams and reality, it seemed a perfect metaphor for my life in that period of time, where time ceased to have meaning, where the days were as dark as night, and the nights fused into the days and everything in between. I existed in my dreams, and in reality, all at once, and in between, and there were days when I genuinely did not know which was which.

And then I listened to this version, and all the hairs on my neck stood on end. It has been quite awhile since I've listened to a song that did that for me. It was a short and sharp reminder of a previous time, a time that time itself has buried in the years since, a time different and yet familiar, so much that for a moment I felt like I could smell and taste the notes in the air, and experience again the sights and sounds of where I used to be, all those years ago.

Then as quickly as it began, the song ends, and I'm back at my desk again. And while it was an interesting trip down memory lane, I find that life has changed in many ways since.