UnquietDreams
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Oh, I have missed your stories...Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album
(It's 2AM here!)
We were just kids, me and my brother, when we arrived in Sweden.
Our lives had been turned upside down, we didn't speak Swedish, we barely understood English, and SFI (Svenska för invandrare, Swedish for immigrants) classes didn't have a Lao translator. We retreated into ourselves, formed a co-dependence that weren't exactly healthy. We still had to attend school, even though we couldn't understand a word being said, and the curriculum being far more advanced than we were used to.
But eventually we made friends. Kids don't need words to communicate... It's a wonder, really. We were invited over to their houses, and with that we were introduced to levels of luxury and culture we couldn't fathom. One of our friends had an older brother; he liked rap and hip hop, and played some for us.
It's like something exploded inside of us. The beats, the emotions, the absolute alien tunes blasting from the speakers. We were transfixed. It was incredible. It made you want to scream, to move, to dance. One of the albums he played was a double-feature, Book One and Book Two.
The album was 2Pac's All Eyez On Me. He was gracious enough to let us borrow one of the tapes, Book Two, and a Walkman. We played that tape until it wore out, learning English, learning to love music...
(Pencil's at the ready. If you know, you know.)
2Pac - Can't C Me
(Opening track of Book Two)