šµ Sweet Melodies
I've been that personāstuck in a song, living in yesterday.
š Behind the Story
I made *Sweet Melodies* in 2019 while listening to The Head and the Heartās āPeople Need a Melodyā and thinking about how we use music as a time machine. You know that feelingāwhen a song takes you so far back that the present completely disappears?
I wanted to tell a story about someone who lives there. Our character sits at a gravestone with headphones on, searching for the melody that will unlock everything frozen in time.
The woman in his memory asks: *Is this what you wantāto bury yourself away?* But he doesnāt have an answer. Or maybe he does, and thatās the problem. Itās about the cost of holding on when the world keeps moving. About how grief and nostalgia can become safer than the uncertainty of tomorrow. The cemetery becomes both a place of loss and a refuge from living.
š A Question for You
Where do you go when the present feels too heavy to hold?
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