The first note is always the loudest.
♬ (Beethoven's 9th) ♬
♬ (fading) ♬
How quickly each feeling starts to fade as you adjust your expectations,
and protect yourself by gradually tuning out the world.
Sometimes you reach a point when you can't feel anything at all,
just a ringing in your ears.
Until like Beethoven, you find yourself pounding the keys of your life to feel anything at all.
Trying to make the ground thunder below your feet.
YU YI
♬ (Wagner's Prelude to "Das Rheingold") ♬
It makes you wish you could look around with fresh eyes,
and feel things just as powerfully as you did when you felt them for the first time.
Before expectations,
before memory,
before words.
♬ ♬
Of course eventually, it all starts to fade again.
Until like Beethoven, you look up from the keys,
and have to ask yourself, "Ist es nicht schon?"
"Is it not beautiful?"