i've got control, i shift my shape if flesh and bone do not contain the mirrors don't reflect my face

Artist- Local Natives
Song of the day- Shape Shifter

I finally got to see this most excellent / new fav band of mine last night and I never use the word "religious experience" unless I'm well talking about religion, but as I was looking down at the sold out crowd of hipsters from the balcony I found that to them that's exactly what this was. Perhaps it's my over theorised mind, the spirituality article I currently have to analyse, this constant facing of loss and death that I keep running into recently, trying to dissect my world view and others around me, or my desperation to understand mental illness for a grade, but I feel as though the melting pot of the human soul and spirituality seem to be boiling over into everything I do. And I gotta say, its tough, strange and I kinda like it. I've been hearing the word "holistic" since nursing school started and seeing people as not just an illness but how every single part of their lives, family, job, thoughts, culture, beliefs, etc effects what's going on in their body just as much as the biological stuff. It's a totally simple concept but even if you just take the complexity of the human mind, the human soul, there is a never ending possibility of what is truly going on in a person. I've seen people unable to move from depression, unable to stop laughing from mania, seen one crisis completely change who a person is, and people overcome some of the greatest losses, I've walked along side people never knowing the constant heart ache they are going through, and held people as they fell to the floor crying. What can the human soul bare? How do we really cope? Through our god, on the shoulder of a friend, all alone, inner strength, the will in our mind, the ability to adapt? Listening to today's song made me think about all this heavy stuff, but in a more enjoyable totally hip way. The human soul is a beautiful, dangerous, amazing thing. I can't seem to stop being in awe of it and want to protect it all at the same time.



my king, i'm humbled before you, i bow
moods like you're pulled by the moonlight, somehow

how is the language we're speaking the same?
shape shifter have you discovered a change?

why does the soul hallucinate?
i've got control, i shift my shape

your eyes, they swell like a riot, deranged
tomorrow you're laughing like a child again

why does the soul hallucinate?
i've got control, i shift my shape
if flesh and bone do not contain
the mirrors don't reflect my face

psycho, you killer, you cancer, my friend
why don't you give me an answer for when
when you'll let it go