Occupy Underground

in stream of consciousness right after I got out of bed one morning.

I'm lgbt. Honestly, there are a whole lot of trips lgbt folks have to deal with in regard to our relationships to other people and society, individually and on the whole that a lot of non-lgbt folks can't totally fathom. You have to be there to really know it, some folks are pretty empathic and get it pretty well. It's like being any kind of "other" in a dominant society, except that I think it's even harder being lgbt in a way, because very often even those that are also "other" hate lgbt's right along with the dominant culture.

Like, a member of a minority might despise and persecute another member of that same minority simply because that person is lgbt.

When you are almost universally classified as a negative/undesirable/dangerous/weird "other" within the firmly enculturated collective consciousness/subconscious of a long established society/culture, the way you relate to the world naturally causes some serious alternative perception/perspective, and someone seems to have lost the Born LGBT in the Straight World owner's manual a long time ago.

So, the song is meant as kind of a "spiritual" - an ancient song about a people longing for, and their struggle for, freedom, equality, and acceptance.

I believe that it is a good thing to let the listener feel their own meaning of songs; I think what people hear and feel from music is often as valid and meaningful as the conscious intent of an artist's expression, and can actually be a divination of something that an artist is expressing subconsciously and that s/he (the artist) was not aware of in the expression of the work.

It seems to me that music/art/theater/other are multidimensional realms, part talent, part skill, part woo, etc, and honestly I don't know where it all comes from because the pieces that I regard as my most creative and real work usually erupt spontaneously and I am compelled to express them. I can't just sit down and write a song anytime I want, I have trashed every single thing that I have ever tried to write when I'm not in the zone.

Music has to come to me as inspiration or else it doesn't work.

Anyway, LG, I'll leave it to you to interpret from there, but I will say that the title of the song is not a fun one, and there has been no wedding...



no wedding yet...


Occupy!