Previously in Café 42: Music is a very important thing in my life, essential even. Indee, within the last year, I’ve discovered that music has the power to shift my vibrational state, to open wide my imagination gates, to realign my energy, to allow my body to dance and my soul to sing. This is why, when I decided to create Café 42, I wanted to share a playlist of my most significant songs with my community, like a life’s soundtrack.
My dear beloved regulars,
Today’s song, “The Riddle” by Nik Kershaw, has been in and out of my life since I was a teenager but I can precisely recall the first time I saw the video on TV, not because of the video itself for I wasn’t fond of its dreamy, almost nightmarish, esthetic but because of the lyrics that strongly resonated with me at the time, without me recognizing why though.
Of course, as I was about 13 years old then, I fancied Nik Kershaw and thought he was very yummy. But what really stayed glued in my mind was the chorus of the song, especially that sentence: “his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night”. I’ve listened to that song time and time again and never, ever got tired of it. It is not only part of my life soundtrack, it belongs to who I am. I am this (wo-)man of Aran – I thought for a long time that it was a man of iron like in the Wizard of Oz – who will never fight over you about being right or wrong but will share the wise light of his mind with you to lift the veils of your life. Quite ambitious, right ?
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