In this sense, music is very unlike language. Music is not a strict code that can make us think of particular objects. Nonetheless, music can still express many things joy, tragedy, triumph, fear, evil, and goodness. Some have noted that it does so the way a voice can express fear or happiness regardless of the words. You could still recognize much by the tone and pace of their voice whether they re angry, pleased, relaxed, humored, or bereaved.
Music works something like that.
Whatever that means, whatever the mystery, the Spirit appears to intercede for us by expressions which can t be put into language. Though we can t plumb the depths of such things, we can recognize the comparison with musical expression. Music, too, can express that which cannot be uttered. Figurative language aims to express something of the unutterable too, and so it s not surprising that music works like figurative language, especially metaphor. Metaphors grab much more of us than mere intellectual tidbits.