when you turn off the music, there is ringing in your ears.
eventually, the ringing stops.
and then it's quiet. too quiet.
you miss the noise, or even just the ringing. you don't remember that silence can be a nice change. you smack your ears with your hands to try and recreate the ringing. you clear your throat to hear sound.
you get used to the silence. you collect your thoughts.
and then you are surprised to hear a song in the air that you like. so you find out what it is, and you turn on the stereo.
at a volume that does not bring to mind the torture of manuel noriega in 1989*.
at a volume that does not cause you pain or give you headaches or ruin your speakers.
so you start listening to music again, and it's good.
*(although there WAS a lot of sabbath and maiden and zeppelin on that playlist, which is awesome)
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