As I look back on my life I can only think of one song that truly meant a lot to me. 'Castles Made of Sand' by Jimi Hendrix might not be the most lyrically astounding record of all time but it does offer some great life lessons to me. It’s a pretty depressing song if you think about it, really. The lyrics tell about a drunk who has been left by his wife, and a handicapped girl who ends her own life by falling off the edge of a cliff. But if you look past just the plain lyrics of the song you can really understand Hendrix’s point here. He is talking about his own life, and the things he would have liked to do about it. When he is talking about castles made of sand, I believe he is talking about the dreams he wished he could have achieved. Throughout the song, he gives us his thoughts on relationships, how he thinks they are very frustrating and fragile at times. No matter what it is he is talking about, Jimi poetically sings about the many bad things that will happen to us in life, and how we should overcome them as life moves on. Our dreams can be crushed at any moment in our lives, and we have to live past that. When you combine Hendrix’s lyrical ingenuity along with his masterful guitar skills, only good things can happen. In my point of view, not only does this song’s lyrics deliver a great meaning to me, but also the instrumentals truly deliver the meaning even further.
