I loved the song Accidental Light by Sleeping at Last when I first heard it, and quickly had to look up the lyrics. And while I thought is was talking about life in general, I stumbled upon The band's blog here:
And now I am REALLY freaking in love it and it's meaning!!
He is actually talking about creating and being an artist..."[the lyrics reference] the feeling that probably creeps inside of every creative person’s mind at one time or another: everything has been done already. Every melody has been sung… every lyric has been written… every painting has been painted. It’s daunting to realize how little our ideas can seem sometimes. But I try to remember that people aren't creating just for originality in itself, they are creating for much more than that… for themselves, for the hope that their art could move someone else in some way too. Originality is a byproduct of being genuine. so those lyrics are me wrestling those ideas out of my head. we don’t know how something we create will effect the world, if at all, but it’s worth creating because clearly, each of us were given the tools to do something, and I believe for a lot of us that something is to create." ~ Ryan O'Neal
I LOVE THIS BAND for putting words to the creative process we artists go through! So amazing!
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