Private Message | EchoZone Internal Chat
From: DeadStrings
To: StringTheory27
Date: May 15th, 1997, 10:34 PM
Subject: Radio silence?
Hasit ever happened to you, that even with music, there’s silence in your heart?
Like nothing gets through.Not the lyrics, not the chords, not even the songs that used to wreck you in all the right ways.
Just static.
I don’t know.
Lately, it feels like I’m locked inside my own head, and every track sounds like it’s playing from the next room.It’s unreachable.
It’s not numb exactly.
More like ...muted.Like someone turned the volume down on me and forgot where they put the dial.
Any top lists for that?
Songs for when music doesn’t work anymore?
Or just—any thoughts at all?
ChapterThirty-Eight
Private Message | EchoZone Internal Chat
From: StringTheory27
To: DeadStrings
Date: May 13th, 199711:09 PM
Subject: Re: Radio silence?
Sorry for thelate response but it’s been a busy week.But yeah, I know what that feels like.
The nothingness.
When even the sad songs sound like elevator music, and you begin to wonder if you’re broken or just ...out of range.
Music doesn’t always fix the nothingness.But sometimes—if you’re lucky—one song makes a crack.It doesn’t heal you.It barely helps, though it might prove that something can still get in.
Here’s my playlist.The one that might crack that wall—or not.There’s no guarantee.
Working title: “Songs That Don’t Ask for Permission.”
“This Woman’s Work”—Kate Bush
It’s about loss, but more than that—it’s about helplessness.The kind that sneaks in during the quiet parts of the day.It’s impossible to listen to without something inside you shifting.
You remember those long moments when you can’t do anything to stop what’s coming, and you’re suddenly aware of everything you should’ve said or done.It’s the sound of someone realizing they’re too late.Too late to change the trajectory.
