oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they... ever learn

Nothing's really ever gone

But actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.

Category error.

The music stays there we keep moving

The truth in simple. I was annoyed to learn that there aren't any crawlies that go back up your throath if you swallow toothpaste.

It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.

As someone with a degree in Philosophy, I don't think this is really a philosophical question. The science is interesting and useful to know

[exasperated]

It doesn't go ANYWHERE.
YOU GET IT?

YOU have to be the one to catch this stuff.
Culturally.

I'm not speaking scientifically. I mean, sound waves shake things up.
But do you want to just be there when sound waves shake things up?
No. You're the first recipient of a cultural event.
ACT LIKE IT. This is a position of immense cultural importance.

Sound is just the vibrations of the air, so as music fades, the air calms. Echoes, reverberance, they are just a result of sound "dampening", and as each sound wave hits a surface that it reflects from the sound waves are also dampened.

So is the question where does music go? Or is it really, "where does silence come from?"

syncs brain cells for later

It goes straight up my ass!

that happened