tales of a perpetual journey

#reverb10, day three: moment | 3 December 2010

Prompt

December 3 Moment.

• Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards)

Post

6:20-6:30 of this video.

The video is the Mumford and Sons Take Away Show for La Blogotheque, a French music blog. I got into Mumford and Sons the beginning of October, and I fell completely in love with their music. Their harmonies, lyrics, etc. just make me feel like I’m flying, even the sad songs.

The ten seconds I refer to above show the band singing “réveille mon âme,” French for “awake my soul.” It is the moment when the whole band comes in for this second song, and it is the most beautiful and meaningful sound I have ever heard. I wrote on the 1st about how this year has crushed my soul; this song has definitely helped me wake up, and this particular version (the one in French) makes me briefly feel completely alive. Every time I listen to it, I lose my breath, my eyes tear up, and I can’t think of anything beyond réveille mon âme.

Mumford and Sons often sing about the soul, and I think most of their songs represent how I’ve been feeling and what I hope for my future (for instance, in “Roll Away Your Stone” they sing about a “newly impassioned soul” – I want that!!). No matter how dead I’ve felt this last year, whenever I play this band’s music, I feel alive.

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