Just A Thought ...

I haven't posted just some writing in a long time. This is a hook that got passed on. But you never know where it could end up. Just thought I'd share it.


"Grind so hard missing life moments
Work so hard you barely breathe
Your vision is all I see 
Just promise that you'll shine
Your long nights make my life worth it
Right beside you on this journey
Your vision is all I see
Just promise that you'll shine"

-writelaughdream

Just an unoriginal thought ...

There are no new ideas there are only new ways of making them felt. I think that’s what Audre Lorde said. As disheartening as it may seem it can be true in a certain way. I mean especially as a writer. We want to feel like we came up with the cleverest way to say something. But really, what hasn’t been said in a song? How many different ways do you think you can fall in love, be heartbroken, and be torn between decisions. I hate to be the one to break it to you but someone has probably said it before you. But the wonderful truth in that, I heard someone say, is that there are generations experiencing those same feelings for the first time. That is what keeps us relevant. We get to tell these stories for the first time to that boy who just started to like that girl in their class or that girl that feels like she isn’t enough. So that idea makes me think everything doesn’t have to be so clever all the time. It annoys me when the emotion gets lost in a song because the writer is trying so hard to say something in a different way. Now I am not saying that we shouldn’t try to be innovative with our lyrics and words, but I am saying, don’t lose that raw emotion. Don’t lose that way of connecting with an audience in the same way you felt the heartbreak in songs like “If you think you’re lonely now” or “On Bended Knee.” Those songs for me didn’t have to have extra analogies or rap punch lines they just laid it all out, their feelings and I was able to identify with it. I want to write records that people break down crying to like I used to! I don’t always want to think so hard about how I am supposed to feel about the record! Guess that’s the end of my soapbox. Haha.

Just a Thought

I Lost My Soul Today ... I lost my soul today Thought I had it Then I realized I left it on the train Not sure where it’s headed I just know that it’s gone I’m just left with no sense of where I belong But I’m still trying to head home Trying to find a way But empty on the inside Nothing keeping me grounded I’m light Doing everything to stop myself from taking off in flight See my soul was heavy, solid Kept me all together Wish I knew where that train was headed.

Just A Thought

What I mean to say was ... See thoughts always seem to come out wrong or on too strong And here I am left begging to be heard Pleading to be understood But nothing seems to come out right It’s confused, misinterpreted, offensive hurtful But not at all what I meant Our minds are so loud We can’t hear because we’re so turned up about everything Things going on in our lives, our insecurities and flaws that we can’t hear the words spoken We can’t take words for what they are without ulterior motives Why I can’t I just mean what I say without nuances of underlying ideas, thoughts or sarcasm. Why don’t you hear me when I’m speaking? Feel the desperation in my breaths Why aren’t you comforted by the gentleness in my eyes? Why can’t you talk to me without any threat of being attacked? That’s not what I meant at all And now I’m swallowing vowel sounds And choking on consonants Completely uncertain on appropriate verbiage and dying in silence Afraid to misspeak, to be misrepresented by my own words How can we talk?