There are few songs that movie me so inexplicably, so uncontrollably as if it was speaking to me from another time or life. There is a song out there, that every time i listen to it i literally shiver with anticipation for the unknown that is to come in my life. But at the same time makes me long for the deep long past of a life i never knew, or life that wasn't even my own. Its a strange, yet subtle feeling to feel like you are being pulled in two directions at the same time. Once beckoning you into the future, and one pulling you eternally, endlessly and with great promises of ages gone, into the past. That song, one of Hendrix's best, and unanimously assumed to be about the Vietnam war is of course All Along the Watchtower.
For those of you who have not heard it, well shame on you for one. But also give it an honest listen, the lyrics specifically are all metaphors for something more profound than we all really understand. It took a smoked up guitar god to transfer all that was around him into this song.
But simply, the words of the first line explain my ever growing urge to vacate my current location, not only mentally but also physically. Its part of the urge i get to travel, sometimes at a moments notice. The thrill of the unknown, the thrill of adventure. The wide open expanse of this planet ripe for the taking. Some people believe this planet it small, and the internet is making it smaller and smaller every day. But go far enough, go deep enough, travel swiftly and lightly, with only unrivaled curiosity and you will find that one place that humans have no tread in hundreds, maybe even thousands of year; or even a place that the lingering spirits of eons worth of travelers have crossed. But always remember..
"There must be some kind of way out of here,"
For those of you who have not heard it, well shame on you for one. But also give it an honest listen, the lyrics specifically are all metaphors for something more profound than we all really understand. It took a smoked up guitar god to transfer all that was around him into this song.
But simply, the words of the first line explain my ever growing urge to vacate my current location, not only mentally but also physically. Its part of the urge i get to travel, sometimes at a moments notice. The thrill of the unknown, the thrill of adventure. The wide open expanse of this planet ripe for the taking. Some people believe this planet it small, and the internet is making it smaller and smaller every day. But go far enough, go deep enough, travel swiftly and lightly, with only unrivaled curiosity and you will find that one place that humans have no tread in hundreds, maybe even thousands of year; or even a place that the lingering spirits of eons worth of travelers have crossed. But always remember..
"There must be some kind of way out of here,"
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