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Today's gardening was pulling Virginia Creeper and grapevine off of, well, everything I could see until I ran out of oomph and stopped.

Any day now we will be able to see the baby woodpeckers at the nest hole, but not yet.

Yesterday I went to an outdoor concert and it was lovely. The choir had a bit of a rough time - their tech rehearsal got cancelled due to hazardous weather, and so the actually PERFORMANCE was the very first time with the band, with these mics, with everything. That's just rough, is all. Everyone did their best!

I was thinking about music while I enjoyed the sun and breeze. Namely, that I am TERRIBLE at comprehending song lyrics. I do not know if I am worse than other people or not. Many, many people say they can't understand lyrics. Yet, they seem to be able to sing the song, and I cannot, so, maybe I'm worse?

I can hear the lyrics if I listen to the song while READING the written lyrics. And once I understand them, it snaps into place and I can hear the words correctly from that point onwards.

I think that part - only part - of my appreciation of KPop is that all songs sort of sound like this to me. In KPop, most songs have a blend of lyrics in Korean and English, with occasional words from other languages. So I can understand a few lines here and there, usually most of the chorus.

This is my experience of ALL music with lyrics. A bunch of words I do not understand, then a couple words I can pick out, then more I miss, then a chorus I can understand pretty well, then more verses or a bridge I can't understand, etc. English language pop, rock, country, rap, it's all the same.

Here's a bit from Dreamcatcher's "Vision":

발을 맞춰 전진 reload (Oh)
적이 가득한 길 위로 (길 위로)
우리 모두에게 salute
I'll give you a vision
잠깐의 아픔은 견뎌
쉬어갈수록 더 번져
그들에겐 없어 reason
I'll give you a vision

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Yep, that's all music to me. (I do not speak or read Korean!) Unless I read the lyrics, then it's fine and I can understand the song!