Let’s make a pact!

“we will bring salvation back”…

I have learned a hard lesson: some songs are best to leave to the original recording (Desperado, If you leave me now, and I’ll be there ). Don’t think because they are nice to listen to, means that you can just pick them out for karaoke.

Anyway, the King of Pop is gone. The music, however, lives on. I have just listened to Motown recording of “I’ll be there”.

“You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back.where there is love, I’ll be there.”

We do need each other. No question about it. Life is so fragile, even to a pop icon. Actually, in M. Jackson’s case,

it is even more fragile than most. The irony of a child star, adored by all, yet loved by none.

I learned a long time ago, not to speak ill of the death. But tragedy loves company. And the entertainment sector

just lost two of its well-known in one day. You thought it’s just another long hot summer at the gas pump. It turns out that we have news from Tehran, N Korea, the sentencing of Madoff, and now Michael Jackson’s autopsy.

I woke up and had my feet on the floor this morning, and couldn’t help thanking God that I am alive.

Everything else is secondary. I would take death over dementia though. One needs not only to breathe, but also

to make sense of the myriads of musical notes and binary code combination. Data and score, lyrics and text.

Life is simple yet complex, and somehow, musicians and mathematicians manage to produce in a range that resonates and strike the chord in all of us, a shared experience (I still remember walking to French school with Pierre when I first heard of the Kennedy assassination). Those early memories also include enduring  American Pie (long winding song) while waiting for the movie to start.  But it’s music such as these that defined our generation: the quest for life, the why’s of things, and the challenge of change itself.

We grew up embracing the unknown, not status-quo. We know that the more we want things to stay the same, the more things will have to change. And in the process of managing those changes, we took the road less travel, and not  the path of least resistance. The journey is the reward so far.  And although I thought I wouldn’t see that many people on the road, it turns out I am not alone. There are others who perceive the world the same way, wanting

to make things happen for the better.
You and I must make a pact, we will  bring salvation back .