Have you ever listening to some breakdown lyrics and sudden you burst out crying for no reason, then as you were crying you thought of everything that is wrong in life and you start crying more?
Here is a little story about how a song with breakdown lyrics changed almost all the perception on life the you might have. And like all the other stories it will start it with “Once upon the time…”
Breakdown lyrics.
Once upon the time there was a music lover, just like anyone is at some moment in life. But he was also very rebel and convinced that the world will go to be mine. That person even had a plan: the career is the only one that matters in someone’s life. A family, a lover, the search for happiness, for him all those were just some unreal dust in the wind that was designed by some dreamers, to slow down your way to something better.
At that moment he was working as bartender. In one long work night he was listening to some CD with some breakdown songs, all alone. Toward morning, an old man entered into the bar and asked him for a coffee. While he was drinking it, he never looked around. From time to time he was sighing. When the song ended, the old man asked him: “Do you have Soldier of Fortune from Deep Purple?” Of course it was in play list, because he did enjoyed good music all his life. “Can you put it on repeat for me, please?” ols man asked him after he gave him an affirmative answer. After five minutes of listening to those breakdown lyrics he saw him crying.
“Do you want me to change it?” he have asked. “No, this is not sadness, as you think. This is resignation.” And then, the ols man told him the story of his life and made him understand what those lyrics are truly meaning. He explained him how he lost his youngness with parties, career and wild way of life. Now, when he was old, he realized that he is all alone and that he does not have time anymore to repair what some misunderstanding of life broke. Even now, after so many years, he listens to the same song, with the same breakdown lyrics and is trying to imagine all the despair that was in that man’s tears. And every time he feel that he is loosing his way, he is listening to it again and again, trying to figure out if his choices are correct or not.
But this is just a case when some breakdown lyrics, listened at the right moment, changed someone’s perception. In the certain situation a sad melody with some deep lyrics can totally clear your mind or help you find the right way.
For example, most of us listen to breakdown lyrics when we broke up with our boyfriends or girlfriends. Some ignorant people would say that we love to feel miserable and pity ourselves but I say that it isn’t like this. If you would ask me what to do after a hard break up I would give you the list of my favorite songs with breakdown lyrics. I would say you to go and lock yourself in a room, with the music volume at maximum and I would say you that it is not a shame to cry or to shout out loud as much as you can. A Greek philosopher said that the only method to cure your soul is to provoke it as much pain as you can. And he was right. After two or three days of crying out all your pain and frustration, you will be as new and purified as you were when you were born.
But listening to breakdown lyrics is not only a label of a sad state of mind. Sometimes I listen to this type of music and I feel happy. You probably are asking yourself how someone can be happy when he realizes that the world is not exactly pink and sparkle. Well, this is even simpler than the above explanation. I am happy because I realize what I have in that moment. Ok, I had a lover who left me. But I passed trough this and I am searching someone else to love me and to love. Maybe I don’t have money, or friends, or parents to be near me or all the other reasons that could make a person to be sad. But I am here and I can make it all better from now on. Yes, when I listen to breakdown lyrics, trough the power of comparison, I realize that I am the only master from my life and that I am the only one who can draw it and make it exactly how I want.
I usually see questions like “Can breakdown lyrics cause depression?” and I continuously hitting by the same opinions: “Yes, breakdown lyrics can easily cause depression”. In fact, the answer is relative: it depends. People who are depressed tend to seek the kind of music which is in tune with their mood, and, usually, this is some sad music. So, considering this, not listening to breakdown lyrics is causing depression, but depression is causing listening to breakdown lyrics.
People who feel sad are making from breakdown lyrics and music a solace, a comfort they feel when consoled in times of disappointment. The music becomes their friend, maybe the only one who is near them. The music understands them, console, express their feelings, and help them fell like their problems are listening by someone. They would say “Look, I am not the only one who feels in this way. There are many others out there, just like me.”
So, if you would ask me if listening to breakdown lyrics is good when you are upset I would bluntly say “Yes, you really need to do this! If you have a problem, tell me what is about and I will quickly tell you the name of a breakdown song to be your friend.”
A lot of studies show that music therapy, trough breakdown lyrics, is a powerful media to fight stress and daily problems. After all, music is just an express of our state of mind. So, why you can put up some pop music when you are having fun, some chill out music when you are relaxing and not some sad music when you are not all right?
Since ancient times, music was used as a tool of communication and it kept its role until our days. Breakdown lyrics are nothing else than a way to express our feelings when we can not find the proper words or the person who is willing to listen. Usually, breakdown lyrics are just a best friend who is always there for us.
