The most interesting song…
“Perhaps the records will never be intercepted. Perhaps no one in five billion years will ever come upon them.”- Carl Sagan
The most interesting song according to me is already out there lurking in the great distances from our very own planet only moving farther and farther. The song has a special charm to it, I guess only a fraction will find it really beautiful to hear- No lyrics, no beats but only raw human emotions. It’s a song by Blind Willie. Blind Willie McTell. “Dark Was the Night,” a three minute fifteen seconds composition.
There is one thing different that sets this song apart. This song will actually outlive the very human existence. In short; NASA sent a space probe in 1977 to detect Extra-Terrestrial intelligent life form, the probe contained a Golden Disk. This disk had information about Human existence in this tiny speckle of dust and various sets of other data. The probe also contained pictures from Earth which defined how our Earth goes like, greetings in different popular languages and a record of many songs. So, “Dark Was the Night” was one of those songs.
I doubt Blind Willie ever thought that was going to happen. If you listen to this song, you may find a bit of sadness in it. he was blinded by his mother when he was a child. The cold was the ground being homeless and sleeping on newspapers, dark was the night again, he was alone homeless and couldn’t see a sad life indeed. Language changes, Emotion doesn’t. This is what this song is, not talent, not lyrics but just pure emotion on the chords. If you keep on listening to this song you will find only two full words, “Alone” and “Aware”. I guess that’s what Voyager-1 is right now, Alone- Moving on its own and Aware as it is traveling to speak of humanity.
This composition never fails to give me goosebumps, one for the fact that how depressing this man lived his life and the thing that his tune is now flying around in the vast cosmos hoping for a listener to listen. The other for the fact that, if one day any life entity finds it, figures out how the records work and being horrified by what they hear.
