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Radio 4,2 mins

麻豆社 music day. Rhidian Brook - 28/09/2018

Thought for the Day

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Good Morning, On this 麻豆社 music day This is a song Without a melody A call to tune in and celebrate This thing called music Which, in a world where few agree And nothing sounds the same, Still changes lives, as well as moods In language not everyone can read But everyone perceive. It鈥檚 both background noise And vital hum Humanity鈥檚 constant giving thrum It fits the occasion Joyous celebration and quiet devotion, It starts the revolution Brings the revelation. Via valleys deep it Reaches depression On mountains high Transcends explanation. It can鈥檛 be proved But is stronger than steel Louder than bombs, It hits but doesn鈥檛 hurt. There is no right or wrong One man鈥檚 dirge Is another man鈥檚 song. There鈥檚 no one way to say it Some sing you can鈥檛 stop it That we鈥檙e lost in it That rivers clap their hands to it Others that life鈥檚 a mistake without it That love is fed by it It鈥檚 the wine that fills the cup. It makes the people come together The bourgeois and the rebel It knows no class or race, Cuts across the politic That no matter what state we鈥檙e in There鈥檒l still be music we can sing We just need to stay in tune Not break the harmony Kill the melody, play the off key Strike the wrong note. Bad people love good music Good people love the bad That鈥檚 not the point Everyone has a tune And the tune is key Come as you are, Come and see Come all ye faithful, Come on everybody Listen to the music Thank you for the music Who can live with out it God only knows what we鈥檇 do without it. It gives soul to the universe Wings to the mind Evokes without words Our greatest joys our deepest fears Einstein thought in music To sing his equations Bach made agreeable harmony To make his devotions It鈥檚 maths to the mathematician Audible waves to the physician We鈥檙e all part of the composition. It鈥檚 everybody鈥檚 business You can sell it or you can buy it But no-one owns it It鈥檚 free as a bird, it鈥檚 all right, it does its thing Music. It鈥檚 divine Let those who have ears, hear A transcendence we can gain A way to talk to angels And sing God鈥檚 praise. It makes a way To express the inexpressible, A thing you can鈥檛 see More real than things you touch More touching than a thing. It鈥檚 a tune we can all hear. If you don鈥檛 like the words Truth, mercy, love Are songs we can hymn It鈥檚 the same refrain It鈥檚 a Love Supreme A wonderful thing. We are the giver and the taker We are the melody of the maker So if we鈥檙e the song Then let鈥檚 sing.

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