- Når jeg for vild så gik jeg mod, det sted hvor musikken lød – Lars Lilholt

During a very busy springtime, it has-as often before – been good to hide in the music in order to survive the enourmus amount of things which had to be done….. but but but sometimes the music disappears, and the you are really lost!

I’ve just been through such a period – way to many charges to do, and suddenly I found out, that my facinations of my very beloved songs and musicians slowly disappeared – not that I now don’t like them, but they didn’t help me to gain my strength as they did before!

Yesterday I was sitting in my car listening to a song from Lars Lilholt, and suddenly I realized, that this is the reason why I’ve been a little moody this spring! I once again had to face the truth, that without the music, you are really nothing.

The song, which was sent as a springtime-greeting from Lars Lilholt earlier in this year AND which is going to be used as a good-bye song during all this summer’s shows, is a new text to a Danish traditional ” I skovens dybe stille ro” – In the deep silence of the forest – which is a very beatiful melody.  The song has no official title yet, but it could be something like “When I got lost I turned towards the place where the music was”  – Når jeg for vild så gik jeg mod, det sted hvor musikken lød.

I often left off, when it counted the most  
but though I realized:
that where my teardrops they fell
right between hope and hue and cry -
it was right there my heart  really beat
and all the meaning of that
When I got lost I turned towards
the place where the music was

I seeked up I seeked down
and I found my deepest flaw.
I took it in and I brought it by,
though I gave it too much of myself.

I searched for the deepest quitness
behind noise and dyspnoea -
When I got lost I turned towards
the place where the music was!

There is really not much to say about this song – It tells my way of reaction  in a proper way ….. or Larses story – which clearly is the same. The music as the guardian and guidance angel – the music which helps you when you are really down, makes you feel yet happier when you’re “up”, which makes you think, makes you feel – without the music we are nothing!

This came to me yesterday aftenoon, when I was driving home for weekend – just another day when I had got lost, but so much that I felt caught by the hopelessness because I couldn’t hear the music ….. then came Larses song to me, and I realized the music was right there in front of my nose …… and then I felt like my guardian angel again had discovered me in the big grey dakness of everyday life …… so I’ll just thank Lars Lilhot deeply for the beatiful song, that led me back on the road with the heart!

And now I really look forward to this evening, where I’m going to enjoy the most wonderful concert with Lars Lilholt band – and especially to this song.

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