Matthew Perryman Jones and 12 Years A Slave

Today I have a song for you by an artist that I have totally fell in love with, Matthew Perryman Jones. I heard this song a long while ago and totally forgot about it until I heard it again recently. Every time I hear this song, I get shivers from how hauntingly beautiful this song is. There is a raw emotion and beauty to this song. The music and lyrics go beyond the idea of lusting for someone and hits the feeling of truly loving someone and wanting them forever. This song has such a perfect simplicity to it, with mainly a guitar and piano to accompany the beautiful vocals. It takes a special kind of voice to really pull at your heart and make you feel the depth of emotion. Matthew Perryman Jones does exactly that with moments of a calm strength and other moments of a shining falsetto. One cannot help but feel everything he feels, the sadness and pain but the happiness and love that he craves when being the only one for her. There is something about this song that makes it applicable to every person on some sort of level. For some, its the break up and for others, it is the loss of life for one they love. No matter what the case, there is a universal nature to the song that makes us all capable of feeling the pain. But this song is also the perfect personification of those feelings, and by being so, serves as a sort of comfort. Someone else is able to understand and feel the same way. Something that is so mesmerizing about this song is how it starts and ends very softly, and has a short build up and climax, but it is just enough to portray that intensity which you want and need. The crooning voice is full of angst and longing which serves incredibly well for this song. I just love everything about this song and I always listen to this when it is raining outside. I don't know why, but it always seems so right. Today's instrumental song is from the movie 12 Years A Slave. This movie was amazing and a bit hard to watch at some points. I have never seen the life of a slave so accurately reflected as it was in this movie. I believe that is a testament to the outstanding nature of the film, and the difficult nature of viewing some of it. But this piece in particular is just powerfully moving. When you watch the movie and then hear this song, all you can feel is Solomon Northup and this song challenges all the struggles, pain, hardship, and terror he went through. It is painfully graceful and tragically beautiful I hope you enjoy the music and please feel free to comment!

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