In your ears

Some of that sound rearranges some of your neurons so that you can listen to Never Gonna Give You Up whenever you read this

It turns into memories and heat.

Into darkness, my old friend.

I've come to talk with you again.

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains

Within the sound of silence

Oh, and while the king was looking down

The jester stole his thorny crown

The courtroom was adjourned

No verdict was returned

And while Lenin read a book on Marx

A quartet practiced in the park

And we sang dirges in the dark

The day the music died

It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.

It's still there, it's just in the past now.

Let's assume the kid knows it's a recording. It's still a valid question.

Like where is the recording coming from when the kid asks Alexa to play a song?

I never thought about it, as I don't have kids, but must be a bit harder explaining a global IT-infrastructure than it was for my grandpa to explaining how a VHS works. On a generalised level, that is.

The music stays in your head until your forget it. Music only exists in your head

To retire on a farm upstate, unless my mom lied to me 🤔

It goes on until it doesn’t? Seems like there’s a pseudo-scientific philosophical argument that it continues on forever at some quantum level?

But actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music? Would you hold it near as it were your own? It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung I don't know, don't really care Let there be songs to fill the air Ripple in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow

If we can try with every day
To make it better as it goes
With any luck then I suppose
The music never ends

It goes into the ears.

It goes straight up my ass!

[exasperated]

It doesn't go ANYWHERE.
YOU GET IT?

YOU have to be the one to catch this stuff.
Culturally.

I'm not speaking scientifically. I mean, sound waves shake things up.
But do you want to just be there when sound waves shake things up?
No. You're the first recipient of a cultural event.
ACT LIKE IT. This is a position of immense cultural importance.

that happened