Harmony

Ever noticed while you were listening to someone else's conversation (cause everyone does it), how two people can sound like their singing a song?

It's not really something you notice by listening to what their saying. In the words of my year three teacher "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" In this context I think I was sugesting by my tone to my teacher that she needed an enima to remove what ever it was stuck up her arse- which was something I might have been thinking at the time- but not something I'd be able to put into more subtle words, or any words, being in year three.

That never really made sense to me as a child though. Surely what I or anyone else have to say, is more important than the tone that I or they chose to use. But not to my old teacher. She would have been happy to listen to someone telling her she looked like something from the house on the preary, as long as they phrased it like they were offering her a piece of cake...

Someone like this will change their tone, which will contain just as much- or more- meaning than their words. It's almost musical. The way a conversation will move up and down (and it is up and down, not back and forth) till it reminds you of a boyband you heard in a shoping centre somewhere. The tone that one speaker decides to finish on, is the tone their friend will always start with. So the whole performance becomes one production of harmony.

To make a point sometimes someone will change their tone. They wont pick up from the place their friend left off. Their friend, and who ever else is listening, will pick up on this too. It will make more of an impact than what the speaker has actually said. The sound of their voice will become more important than their meaning.

At what point does a conversation become a song and a song become a conversation. Are these really seperate things or do they just exist at either end of a continum. And where the hell does poetry fit in...