"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter..."
John Keats, -Ode on a Grecian Urn-.
"Tennessee Williams once wrote; 'We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down... with us trapped, locked in it."
....
& somehow music is the only getaway...