Singer/songwriter David Wilcox has a new CD out. He posted the following on his website, www.davidwilcox.com.
I am so looking forward to you hearing my new CD called Airstream which I have just started recording. No, wait.
Oh yeah, and there’s also this other new CD called VISTA that comes out today that some of you may not have heard yet, so let’s talk shall we?As your musical doctor, I recommend that you immediately get the CD and immerse your heart in the sounds. It’s also good for your mind to memorize all the lyrics, and then we can start this conversation in depth, rather than at the beginning. Why wait for the healing to begin? Haven’t you been hurting long enough? The music carries the right medicine. For example, although it may not be obvious that the second half of the second verse of the song COMING ALIVE is about sex, it most certainly is. It was obvious at the moment of conception that this union was profoundly different than anything before. Could I have somehow known that Nance and I had started the life of our child? It was a place in time where there was an opening into forever. I didn’t have the language for it, but I felt it at the time, deep and strong. But the song isn’t about sex.
That verse, the song, the whole CD VISTA seems to be about coming alive in the big sense of it. I see that now. I never know what a new CD is about until after it’s done. I don’t see what I’m going through until I look back on the songs and realize there’s a pattern to what I’ve been writing about. So this past while for me has been about learning to be very much alive and awake. Some of the songs on VISTA came to me before I was really able to sing them with conviction. I guess my life wasn’t there yet. But now I’m learning some of what these songs have been teaching me about taking my stand and daring to live, and now I can sing them from experience and they feel true. I wish I could tell you about it, but words don’t do it. They can’t. It’s like if you tried to bring a bright piece of coral home from your dive trip to the island. It was bright and alive when it was down deep in the ocean, but when it sits on your coffee table it turns grey and dead as cement. Words emersed in spirit soon dry out and die just as dead. But if you let the music lead you back there and take you below the surface, the sun shimmers through the waves and somehow reflects in living color that shines in your heart. Music dares us to dive in where life is deep.
Do I ask too much from music? I don’t think so. All my life I have believed in what a good song promises: It wakes a sleepy heart like the smell of breakfast cooking so that we hunger for a life of love and true adventure. I made breakfast for you and I hope you like it.
David Wilcox