Wk2-2 DB Quickies: CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening

Topic #1

Can you remember the first song that really touched you emotionally? 

I thinking back in my life I know there were many songs that impacted my ways of thinking, my mood, my understanding of the world.  My preferences as far back as I can remember have been some form of Christian music.  All of these have a message that encourages, challenges, teaches me.  But, the song I remember most is one whose background is totally false. 

The Phil Collins song "In the Air Tonight" was described to me as written by Collins as a response to a drowning of one of his close friends, and there was a man who could have saved his life, but refused.  Immediately I was drawn and pulled into the story and spent a lot of time analyzing the lyrics.  I was moved by the emotion and often imagined being in that setting and watching a friend of mine die, while someone could have saved them. 

In reality He claims he wrote the song as a narrative of his divorce to his wife.  It was, and still is, amazing to me of the power of our minds to create such emotion.