📖 Behind the Story
I made *Sweet Melodies* in 2019 while listening to The Head and the Heart’s “People Need a Melody” and thinking about how we use music as a time machine. You know that feeling—when 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 want—to bury yourself away?* But he doesn’t have an answer. Or maybe he does, and that’s the problem. It’s 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.
💭 A Question for You
Where do you go when the present feels too heavy to hold?
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