Never, never – The “other” jamming session in Peru

This is a story from the very end of my trip that I wanted to share. It is not the typical travelogue and not about a certain place that I’ve visited. I’ve been on the road for eight months… and one companion for me has been music. Like the song said: music was my first love and it will be my last. Living without music – even just thinking about it – would be terrible for me. From time to time I’ve been publishing like poem-like texts on this blog. I’ve never been a good writer, but as you can see on this blog, that doesn’t prevent me from writing 😉 I’ve also never been a good musician, but this never prevented me from making music – or at least trying. In many places, I gathered together with others for singing and just having fun. Most of the time we sang famous and popular songs: lady in black, Wonderwall, breakfast at Tiffany’s… just for the sake of singing together and having fun.

But this time in Peru it was different: I met a guitarist and we had great conversations about music. He had been traveling with his guitar for a long time and performed on the street.
Instead of singing the famous and popular songs, he showed me some of his songs. Some were recordings on his PC, some he performed for me.

When telling him about my little “texts” that I occasionally write, we realized that they could be used as song texts. And there is one in particular that we transformed into a song, kind of by accident, during this very special jam session. It was the first time that I’ve ever heard someone (including me) singing lyrics that I wrote 🙂 and it was so amazing that I felt that I want to share this little story. Music – at least for me – has so much power and is definitely the best travel companion. I hope Merlin won’t be jealous 😛

So here is the little text, the melody and so on will live on in my thoughts:

with every step that I take
like a shadow tied to me
whether I’m asleep or I’m awake
take it all in – every view and every dream
and I know that nothing ever stays the same

never, never will I forget this constant in my life
I don’t want to and never try
never, never will I again start to run away
still, it will be never, never
really never, never
never be more than just a dream –
that lives in me

Don’t Panic!

The lyrics are excluded from the Creative Comments License of this blog and under copyright. (This blog post has been imported from my old blog, that I’ve kept during my world trip (originally published on Feb. 23rd 2013))