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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 3522009" data-attributes="member: 40370">Ya know Nyaricus ... this is a tough one to answer. Often for me the music that hits me deepest are not lyrics-based. Doesn't the definition of an anthem include lyrics?  :\ Anyway ... I will write down a few of the melodies I thought of that were expressive of me:1. The immediate one was "The Little Brown Island in the Middle of the Sea" ... it is a Scottish aire played on a fiddle. If you have ever had the chance to be at sea amidst the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland you will be amazed when you hear this. The composer was somehow able to arrange the notes in such a way that exactly paints an image of not only being at sea on a ship, not only being off the coast of those islands, but even what goes on in the soul then.... I wish I could explain it better.... But there is something there that really touches something very near the core of my being ... at least as I understand myself.... Do you know what I mean?2. Another one is a folk song sung by the people of the country of Georgia (near the Caucuses mountains on the east coast of the Black Sea). It does have lyrics. In Georgian the song is called "Hela Megruli". It is a song of a cart driver singing to his oxen about how life is a laboring under a heavy load for many. It is beautiful and melancholy. If you have never heard Georgian folk music it is impossible to convey by words. Hearing it live is another experience entirely. Singing it ... words fail....I think that will have to do for now. Maybe if I can think of other things that have hit me hard like these I will post them too.</blockquote>

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