The Artist
There is a song I am listening to these days. It's called Unbreakable Chain, and it's sung by Daniel Lanois. Writing about music never quite works. So, here it is for a watch and a listen. To me, the song is about communication. Attempts at communication, failed communication, suspended communication. The title, to me, refers to the silence that has the nature of an unbreakable chain. It binds us in isolation. The song is sprinkled with references to communication attempts. In the first verse, we are asked to consider the shadowy nightscape of communication: dreams. It's not the pitter-patter of the one in your dreams.. In the second verse is another familiar form in the story of communication, the belief, the instinct that the elements are somehow making themselves known to us in its own language. You walk and you know that the wind is not passing you by/ It's speaking and you listen and the tears don't come out when you cry... In the third verse, the ...