For this next assingment we listened to some music. A kid from the music class across the hall brought over his amp andd guitar and played us a piece. We've been told to interpet the song however we'd like and to write about what the song said.
To my ears this song started off about Leslie, a powerful business woman. She's blond with red lips, typical beauty, but her hair is pulled back a little too tighly. She's wearing a gray skirted suit with pinstripes. The song describes her as she walks down an empty hallway, slowly, with weight in each step that bounces off the walls resounding in that well known high-heeled beat. Leslie has a file in her left hand while her right swings more freely with her powerful gait. The scene is slightly slow-mo and continues until she's reached a door on the right of the hallway and steps in.
The song changes. Someone in the room has a mollifying affect to the song. It's a man, he's sitting on the thrid seat of the far side of the long conference table. The connection and history between him and Leslie is laced together within the file held in Leslie's left hand. The song creates the illusion that no one else is in the room but the two of them, and a hint of another man at the end of the table, the man to recieve the file. Leslie can feel the tension beween herself, the file, and the first man as she walks to the head of the table. She imagines him staring at her, burning holes into her with his hateful glare. She almost feels guilty until she stop, turns around and sees that he is only staring straight ahead at nothing. She doesn't notice his tightened jaw and forced expression of control. Leslie frowns and walks all the way to the other man at the end of the table and hands him the file.
As the file leaves her hands the music changes once again. This time Leslie fades away and so does the man with the file. The song follows the first man, Kurt. The song floats around him for a bit as nothing else real. He hears and hardly acknowledges something the other man's voice says. It's no more than a mumble to him, but he knows the meaning. Kurt slowly stands and leaves the room. As he closes a door behind him, the empty hallway fades into the street as he walks home. It's cold out, but not unbearably so.
The music follows him on his way home. He takes the longest route. The song and his thoughts correlate through feelings of loss to bitter sweet freedom to a tinge of angsty rebellion. Kurt began his walk with a slow, dragging pace, depicted by the song. But by the end he's standing straight and his expression is nearly hollow. There's a small fire in his eyes that causes him to ball up his fists in coat pockets.
Eventually, once Kurt's thoughts and expectations have solidified the song stops following him and watches him walk ahead, turn the corner and dissappear. Without another being in the area the song fades to nothing.
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Yea, I can like this one. I wish I could put this song Ville played on here, but I believe it was improvised. Oh well. Think of your own song :)
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