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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

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Many artists fall into this trap, and it is a hard one to escape from, because the trap is also your door of opportunity.

There is no secret as to why so many artists have drug and alcohol problems, creativity comes from the brink of madness, sometimes, we need to walk on the edge to be inspired, especially if we are surrounded by flat plains, with nothing in sight but desolate remains of a life once dreamed.

On the edge we can see everything we need to see to create, it is perspective, the polar opposite of ignorance. It is anything but bliss, but why is it so hard to give it up? Sometimes we feel pressured into a life of endless creation, stress, coming up with something new or die among the other bones scattered about. Sometimes it is just to have the knowledge gained from perching on that rooftop for just a bit longer. Everyone must fall to be able to stand back up.

I went straight years ago, and have not written a song in about as many years. The music is still in my head. I can hear it, but why can I not bring it out into the world? What was it about some chemical compound that made it possible for me to actually express who I was, yet all the while, being who I was not? These things are a paradox.

I am not saying that Amy is a gifted and misunderstood artist, but I do think she is being pushed to keep going, and inside her head she knows what going straight means... the end of a career.

I don't listen to pop music, but I am sure even in that line of work, there is pressure to perform, to recreate what brought success. I hope that she finds a way to cope with life after fame, or she will have to cope with life after death.


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