Your musical home

What is it about the Kings of Leon that makes their music feel like home to me? This isn't a rhetorical question. I really want to know. I always thought, whenever I heard someone say something like that, "Yeah that's a little sappy don't you think?" but that sappy saying (It just feels like home) has just the right amount of the right words to make it completely fitting and completely true. In every song no matter how many times I've listened to them (and like damn 3,750 plays is a LOT of times)I always find new parts of lyrics or little nuances in the way some parts are sung or the drums are played or hidden in the baseline or in those dirty, filthy guitar licks...I always find something that makes my stomach do that little flip floppy thing. That thing it does when you hear the opening guitar on Pink Floyds - Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here.

Kings of Leon – Arizona. It kills me. "I'll go stand up to the giants. Say that I'm a fighter." Now that I look at it all typed out that way...you don't really have to go searching for any kind of "deeper meaning" if you know what I mean. Still, maybe that's just it. The words are simple enough and yes they hit home but they still feel "deeper" than they actually are I suppose. This is where that whole "nuance" thing I was gabbing on about kicks in. It's the way he sings it. With his whole being. Like you know standing up to those giants and saying you're a fighter is the hardest and most brave thing you'll ever do. Well that ^ was a whole paragraph of absolute nothing. Funny...it sounded less ridiculous in my head...but still...it -is- / -was- in my head.

I should research it. This effect that music has on us. The chemical reactions and interactions and explosions. I know it exists but details I've never much bothered with when it came to these things. Though I am now on a mission.