Background music. It all
fades into background music. It just becomes sound and nothing more. It plays
in the background and we go about doing what we are doing without really paying
any attention to it; like when we are at the grocery store and we hear music
playing. We hear it but we don’t hear it. Songs pass and we can’t even remember
what we listened to. It becomes a massive shape of gray, undistinguishable
really. Sometimes we don’t even notice it at all. It just plays lazily in the
distance, blending together with the paint on the walls and the ceiling tile.
There was a time when the melody was bright and we knew and sang all the words.
Now, we don’t pay attention, we’ve heard it all before.
