It’s Within… Music
By DC
Music is like a virus that stimulates the mind and heart.
It’s like a tumor that grows, and grows, that has no cure.
Once you’re caught in its rapture, there’s no escaping it.
There’s no fighting it, only submitting to it.
Embracing its amazing feeling, that makes you smile when there’s nothing to smile about, that makes you cry from the joy you feel…
Music is like a disease that runs through the veins of the chosen ones
That spreads through the body like a forest fire.
I dare you to look into the eyes of music,
Listen to its sounds of pleasure and pain.
Music… Music is, and always will be within you.
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