Spatial Connotations

So I haven’t written in a long while. I’ve been well, let’s just say – very preoccupied with the sudden burst of responsibilities. Here’s a sort of blog post which summarizes the unique theme of space and romance in music into a bunch of words and basically throws it at you – my readers, who I am once again very thankful for.

Lately, I have heard so many lovely songs and they make beautiful connections to space and stars and universe which are just so hard to ignore. Adam Levine says, “Are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?” and Ellie Goulding says, “Let me take you past our satellites, you can see the world you brought to life.” Coldplay does it amazingly with, “Because you’re a sky, you’re a sky full of stars, such a heavenly view.”

Life and love can be expressed in terms of light and dark and I feel the night often inspires some of the most soothing nocturnal tributes to romance. It reminds me of the Cereus, a flower which is also known as the Queen of the Night. In a world fearfully plagued by the negative implications of the ‘dark’, it is but a wonder that some of us can sit back and watch the constellations – every star is a flicker of hope. It is a sign of the impossible greatness which is manifest in the life story of every single stellar body out there.

Moreover, it is from the dark that light originated and if a Godly construct were to exist, it would have fashioned a billion worlds out of the dimness of the Universe. It fascinates me that human beings have created worlds everywhere, inside of their brains, on their planet, in every branch of knowledge and every work of fiction.  But the actual worlds which really truly physically exist are out of our reach, far beyond the Sun and even farther beyond the Milky Way. They lie somewhere in the dark, surrounded by frequent visits from meteors and such. It’s not much of a wonder that we humans have romanticized Space indefinitely, hoping that one day we’d discover ourselves in astronomical creations. After all, we are not just scared of the Unknown we are also curious and sometimes oddly, we are enraptured.

The most memorable of all songs is Drops of Jupiter by Train which uses the most unique expressions of space. Can music illustrate space? Can music include space to embellish a human being?

Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded? And that heaven is overrated.

… And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?

Drops of Jupiter in her hair?
Artist: Miyuko142 on DeviantArt

Absolutely amazingly nostalgic. Quite possibly the best song about space and love and little things. Unless you think of Counting Stars which I have dedicated an entire post to; and which to be honest has the greater perhaps hidden in between the lines. With this I conclude the post, and I really hope that musicians keep on glamorizing space. Maybe, the next time I write, I shall explore this theme in film and literature. Till then!