Everyone has their own unique story, but the true specifics of our lives are untransmittable, so we speak in the coded language of songs and set-lists.
The sensuality of the motets matched the decadent language of the "Song of Songs".
Would it really be better if he were to hire the prostitutes, buy the drugs - and then denounce marriage, family, and religion rather than defend them?" Mark Driscoll even wonders out loud whether Mrs Haggard shouldn't take some the blame, in the former case for not singing to the fallen Rev in the body language of the Song Of Songs.
The language of the song texts is Manipravala, a literary mixture of Malayalam and Sanskrit.
The government, for example, ultimately decides where he can perform, as well as the language of his songs.
Among his first and most significant initiatives with the group was to change the language of the songs from English, which was associated with the white-minority administration, to Shona, which was spoken by the majority of the country's black population.
If the albums of "Wicked, "Avenue Q" and "Taboo," three of the four shows with Tony nominations for best score, fall short of classic status, they show the once-polite language of theater songs absorbing the slang and attitudes that have long been a hallmark of pop.
Rajaniemi describes Finnish as a language of poetry and song, with great facility for shaping words and making compounds.
The next time you hear someone explain a singular moment in their lives using the language of advertisements, pop song, sitcoms, or romance novels, it will be worth pausing to ask: Are we all already unwitting participants in a culture-wide focus group?
I imagine him sitting there dreaming in the manner of poets, one image shifting into another, pieces of language made song growing out of one another like a fine crochet.
