Comments yesterday at the Facebook Group about "Feelings," (especially in regard to music and Nate Bartman) got me thinking about musical focus on "feelings." If you're as old as I am and American and you think of a song named "Feelings," then you think of the sickly sweet Morris Albert song, which I always disliked. But a little googling reveals there is some music worthy of an anthem to "feelings" in the Epicurean sense. It's fitting that the original lyrics are Italian, and not English, since in English philosophical discussion the word "feelings" is considered almost too embarrassing to mention. But here is some music that doesn't apologize for "feelings."
This passage is particularly appropriate:
"Where can you go if you don’t have feelings?
What can you do to hold them?
Tell me if believing makes it happen
Oh feelings, where do you go without them?
Where can you go without feelings?"
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/feelings-fe…l#ixzz5FMu7L5iN
Before, you were there, now you’re not
Before, you loved my every breath
Explain to me how shivers are now needles, belonging to a love that is ending
You used to kiss me, now you don’t
You used to talk to me till late at night
Between us was everything, now nothing
Feelings, I’m talking about feelings
Where can you go if you don’t have feelings?
What can you do to hold onto them?
Tell me if believing makes it happen
Oh feelings, I’m talking about feelings
It’s a pain that now, you know, is a blade of ice
I used to smile, now I cry
Oh feelings, I’m talking about feelings
Where can you go if you don’t have feelings?
What can you do to hold onto them?
Tell me if believing makes it happen
Oh feelings, where do you go without them?
It’s lost on the way, part of a story that’s disappearing
Behind the tress of this fragile dawn
Where can you go if you don’t have feelings?
What can you do to hold them?
Tell me if believing makes it happen
Oh feelings, where do you go without them?
Where can you go without feelings?
