Ep. 5: US Cellular Center Opening for Sarah McLachlan – Cure My Mind/Memory
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Speaker 2:Yes. This is a song podcast, anyway, as, again, musicality. Music has always been very important to me. And this song is, or at least the A side of this podcast, is Cure My Mind. And I was playing at the US Cellular Center.
Speaker 2:I was opening for Sarah McLaughlin. And by the way, she's a great, you know, person and all that. So there's six or 7,000 people there riding high after the success of the song If All the World Were Right and the album. And, of course, this was the second single off it. Anyway, it was a great night.
Speaker 2:Of course, she's a great artist. My dressing room was next to her, and I I said to her, Why where are my flowers? Anyway, but Hear My Mind, a significant song, at least in my life, because it came as a result of my biggest loss, and I've had so many. And after my son drowned right after he graduated from high school, I remember I didn't realize that a human being could suffer so much pain. I just, it was unimaginable pain.
Speaker 2:I laid for days in a dark basement and I lost track of what day it was, let alone the time. I even forgot my identity. I was so lost. I was utterly broken. And but like I say, there's always good things that emerge from the ashes, from the manures, from the tough hits in your life.
Speaker 2:I had this vision, and one of the things that actually, after 14 counselors that were supposed experts in death, you know, trying to make it an intellectual process, which it's not, I mean if death was an intellectual thing that you could just go to counseling and therapy and get over it, then I could have said, Well, thank God Roman drowned. I mean, I don't have to pay for college. It's not quite like that. And this is I'll be sharing more about some of the things I learned that really help out, but one of them is something called IADC, and I'm not going to go into what this, but basically it's related to EMDR, that is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Anyway, so it's linked to that.
Speaker 2:So in my eyes, going back and forth, which helps with the integration, I think, of both hemispheres of the brain or whatever. That's just a biological explanation, which I think is far more than that. In fact, you could say it opens up a portal of sorts. But anyway, it induces a vision like state, and in one of those visions, that's where I I saw music as a living thing. I was playing guitar and that's one of the best things I do.
Speaker 2:A lot of people think it's my ideas or maybe the songs in the universal or virgin world, Hey, Andrew's Great Songwriter, whatever. I think guitar playing is one of the greatest things I do. It's just it gets overshadowed by the other things. So I saw that, and in the audience is nature. Rocks, trees.
Speaker 2:It was fairly arid, I remember, in the vision. And the rocks were smiling. The trees, nature, was smiling. They were pleased, happy, with the music that was coming out of my instrument. And that vision shaped my thinking about things or the material world.
Speaker 2:I believe all is alive, and to this day, I can't look at anything and not give it some respect as a vibrational, pulsating thing. And yes, you treat physical objects with a sense of reverence. And so when I say, you know, I have love for all expressions of life, yes, the plastic bottle, I'm not gonna demonize. I'm not gonna demonize the plant or the rock. Anything.
Speaker 2:It takes very low consciousness, in fact, to criticize things. So the vision, and we all have visions, you know, even our visions of the night. Some of the most valuable things that we have that we throw away like garbage when actually it's telling you the truth about yourself. Or some communication may be taking place at that time. So through a catastrophic loss, through it getting my attention, through me seeking relief, I find there's tools out there, I find there's new ways of looking at the world, I experience a vision.
Speaker 2:And again, this explains so much about me at this point. And because, again, I was a broken man. I don't even know how you get more broken than this. So in this song, again, Cure My Mind, I wrote this at this time because my mind was broken. Not only my body.
Speaker 2:My body had been broken before. I mean, my mind was shot. And this reference to broken columns in it, it's a Roman reference of a life cut short, unfinished business, which is so much about what this podcast is about. You know, what are you willing to throw your life away on? And making some type of determination.
Speaker 2:And so you see this unfinished business, the unwritten book, the unfinished song, Dying With the Music Still in You, the Broken Column. None of us want that to happen, and obviously, young people cut down young or in their youth. It just seems so tragic. So anyway, here is Cure My Mind.
Speaker 3:Listen, I'm just so happy to be here. It's a great night. We have a great artist, Sarah. Come on. She's an angel.
Speaker 3:I've witnessed her and a great cause. And I'll just be real with you. I'm used to playing for an audience of trees. I take most of my cues in life from from the outside and and and all that. But somehow, for some strange reason, the sovereign of the universe has me here tonight.
Speaker 3:So with that said, this first song I'm gonna do is off If All the World Were Right, and sometimes we can go through some tough patches or dense matter in life and and sometimes, I sing some tough hits. This one came out of probably my toughest hit. And it's probably the strangest song of the top 40 right now on the billboard. So here we go, and it's called Cure My Mind.
Speaker 2:Okay, the B side of this music podcast is the song Memory. And this is really about the love of my life, and just a divine person. And so what are we to each other now? We're memories. And on some level this goes to the mind and the power of the mind, as well as music.
Speaker 2:And that the thoughts we hold, images of people, are very powerful. In fact, are more powerful than spoken words, and sometimes even ideas. And so the image this connotates a feeling, and I think you combine an image with music, which touches the soul on a completely different level, and, you know, it's powerful, impactful in our lives. And this song, I I know a lot of people like it. It is a romantic.
Speaker 2:Why? Because I'm a romantic. I mean I throw myself away on relationship stuff. So that's it. And it was recorded in such a special way and I was just totally obsessed with this.
Speaker 2:So here it is, the song Memory.
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