The unlocking of mind

Music is the key that unlocks my mind. Don't get me wrong, I can think without it. But what I accomplish without it pales drastically when compared to what can be accomplished with it. My preferred styles are classical and Irish, in both cases it has to be without words. I don't really know how it works. Something about it lets my brain lock onto it and then the floodgates fully open. I realized recently how I often am not thinking in terms of words, but in terms of melody and feeling. Yet somehow when I am trying to write, to allow myself to be occupied with a song frees up the words otherwise hidden in the depths of the great unknown. It seems to be my most multipurpose tool: it helps me go to sleep and helps me wake up, I use it when I am too bored, excited, happy or sad to communicate in any other way, and, as just mentioned, I use it when writing. Thank God for music!