Teenage Music

Listening to music alone in your room you feel that there is something deep and unique and profound in the music and you know that it is something that is not always there, at least not right there at the surface of the sound, and you understand that not all of it is the music, that some part of that power in the music is you, because it is you who understands these things, like the secret ingredient an alchemical process. But the other part to this great understanding up there in your bedroom is that this great thing will never leave you, that what you are experiencing could never be explained or expressed to another person, because words could hardly even let them know the outline of your experience. So it happens that this great and infinite thing is ultimately capped inside of you.