8. Nocturne op.9 No.2

This song happens to be a Nocturne. A which? You ask. You know Frederic Fucking Chopin.  If you were kid growing up in the 90s you may recall that exchange from Tombstone. It was there  I learned of Chopin which eventually led me to this song. It is probably his most famous piece.  My youngest daughter calls it the relaxing song. We would listen to this song as we battled our night owl at bed time. She is right. The song is relaxing, but it is so much more. 

Once again a song makes the list that has no words, but even more so than Sleepwalk this beautiful piece of piano music almost sings.  While the song is relaxing it contains multitudes of emotion. It starts out with a seed of joy, but then we quickly hear the melancholy longing for a lost love or for better times.  As the seasons change in real life I can hear them pass in the music. I feel the happy warm breeze of spring, the heavy humid air of a summer night as dawn approaches, the cool drifting of leaves in the winds of fall or the crisp solitude of an icy winter night. The pairing of Starry Night with this song is so fitting here in this Youtube video. The notes swirl as if they are a part of the Van Gogh. It really adds to the listening experience. 

The melancholy lingers throughout and takes us up and down through the memories in our minds, but at around the 3:40 mark a rage rises, begging for the past, begging for when things were simpler and begging for the return of what was once was. As quickly as the rage rises there is a pause and a twinkle that ushers in the sad resignation of fate. 

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