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Happy “hump day” to every one. I hope everyone has had a good week so far.
For people who know me or have been following my personal posts on this blog, you would know that in addition to being a book addict, I am also a bit of a music junkie.
On Sunday night, I came across a Facebook video which was posted by a pilot friend of mine, who has a habit of posting videos of himself driving to work. So I played this particular video and there was this song playing in the background which I instantly liked. I started to type a comment to find out what the title of the song was, when I remembered that I could “Shazam it”.
I instantly opened the app, and found out that the song was, “A Head Full Of Dreams” from Coldplay’s new album. Within five minutes, I had downloaded the entire album on Spotify and I haven’t stopped playing the album since then. Now, I listen to it every chance I get.
One of my favorite songs from the album is a short song titled, “Kaleidoscope” which begins with the voice of a man reciting some words, and is then followed by the voice of another man singing “Amazing Grace”. Naturally, I became curious and wanted to find out what the man was saying, so I consulted Google. To my utmost surprise, the man singing was none other, than President Barack Obama.
I also found out that the words were an excerpt from a beautiful poem by Rumi (above). I hope you find it as insightful as I did.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
Love,
Chika
Image credit: http://genius.com/Coldplay-colour-spectrum-lyrics
Steele said:
Oh wow!! I’m sure you know how much I love Coldplay too. I always feel like they were sent by infinite intelligence to sing not just to the ears but to the soul. Their music makes me feel like I can see the auras of everything and everyone around me.
The last two paragraphs of the poem were worth reading over and over till the meaning sunk deep into my subconscious. Thanks again Chika.
Chika Efobi said:
Thanks Steele for your comment. I am glad you like it. Their songs are awesome and the poem was very inspiring to me.
Sippy said:
Very inspirational. Went through it several times.