Let Their Voices Resound

     I don't think anyone really knows how much I sing.  Sometimes while in the car I'll turn off the radio and just sing songs I know or have made up on the spot.  Anytime I'm completely alone I start singing.  I just wish that I could do it when I'm not completely alone.  I wish we had more music in our world, sung by everyone.  I wish we had more people expressing their soul through music even if everyone has told them they suck or that they just aren't up to par.  Sometimes I just want to start singing at the top of my lungs.  Not in that joking sort of way but really sing.  Like open your heart and sing, not to be heard or complimented but just to make make music.
     I think its funny how there are only two acceptable ways of singing in public.  In a completely joking manner or really singing but being really really good at it.  I'm not musically inclined but I don't suck and I wish it was socially acceptable to just sing.  Or better yet if everyone would just join in with you.  Not in some choreographed, high school musical way.  But people just opening up their soul and singing.  

    I think the one reason this would never happen the way I imagine it is because of the two acceptable ways of singing.  You need to just joke or sing so seriously and in such a self conscious manner that the music won't just flow out of you. 

     Music has this amazing power over people.  It can make you smile and jump with just a tune or cry at the right words combined with the right melody.  It evokes emotion in ways that theater and books just can't.  And, in addition, it is personal.  A songwriter and composer may intended one emotion or experience to be prevalent but each one of us will always take something different from the song.  Different memories will come to us and thus slightly varying (or maybe even completely different emotions) will stay with us.  

     I guess what I'm trying to say is I wish would could put aside societies perceptions of song and talent long enough to sing together, to expose our souls to each other for just a moment.  I wish when I started singing in public I wouldn't get weird looks, instead I would have voices slowly join in to create an impromptu choir.  And for a moment we would be a community in song.