To fancy one's self a musician...

On the turntable: R.E.M. - "Out of Time"

1991 Release - Warner Bros. - LABEL #R124762 (BMG Direct Marketing Edition)

To fancy one's self a musician
      is but to claim a mastery over all human emotion.
   For what is music without love and laughter,
                                                              sorrow and sadness?

Such things result in a creativity that cannot through purpose
      be built,
   yet are accidents by which the loved and hurt find themselves
        led.

But to be found creative cannot be his goal that writes.
For such a shallow goal can but lead only to an equally shallow
      ballad.
For it is not through the clever use of grammar that a lyricist
      be made, but the grammar is but a tool for which his
   emotions should set themselves free.
          At such a time would they spread as a fire through any
      great multitude that would chance to hear it.
                                - end -

        - February 18, 2006