Music is something that unites everyone worldwide, bringing peace and understanding for many restless souls. For me specifically, Blackbird by The Beatles has always called to me because this particular Beatles song conveys something so chilling yet hopeful with such lyrics as “take these broken wings and learn to fly”. On one hand it is a melancholic song about a blackbird experiencing hardships, yet chirping on through it; making the best of its suffering by shining a light on it with its song. Yet “you were only waiting for this moment to arise” speaks so resolutely of becoming, awakening and the image of the daybreak being a metaphor for the moment we are free at last.
Even in the most difficult of times, this song has smoothly assured
