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When Music Was Like Tinnitus

Climbing cliffs and Dangerous

When I was a student

There was always music playing in my head during classes

Almost like tinnitus, never fading away

While teachers talked of formulas and grammar

I heard melodies that wouldn't stay silent

Found an old album, dusty on the shelf

A portrait with no face staring back

I think that shadow there was me

Before I knew who I was meant to be

Those days when I was nothing yet

Just a dreamer in the back row

Music ringing in my ears like tinnitus

Constant, endless, beautiful tinnitus

Photos never pasted, memories half-formed

But the details come flooding back

Every note that haunted those classroom hours

Every rhythm that I couldn't track

The sound that wouldn't leave me alone

Became the voice I'd call my own

What felt like noise inside my brain

Was music waiting to be claimed

Those days when I was nothing yet

Just a boy who couldn't sit still

Music ringing in my ears like tinnitus

Sweet, relentless, fateful tinnitus

Now I know what that sound was— It was tomorrow calling me

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When Music Was Like Tinnitus

When I was thinking about creating a song using the word "tinnitus," I came up with the idea of a situation involving the childhood of a successful musician. This is a song about how the melodies that floated in their head might have been like "tinnitus." Please give it a listen if you'd like.

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