I’ve posted recently how I’ve been longing to pursue songwriting for some time. I have dabbled in it and have co-written songs with a friend in the past. I loved the whole process of working through words that were mine and fitting it together with the music. And the final project of singing something that no one else had ever sung was mighty cool.
But I still had a goal in the back of my mind that I wanted to write a song all by myself. Co-writing is way fun and I’d definitely love to collaborate with more musicians in the future, but there was something about sitting down and writing something all on my own. I felt that I couldn’t do it for years because I didn’t think I possessed the musicianship to do it. After reading Quitter, attending the Quitter conference, and receiving some much needed encouragement and butt kicking from a fellow musician, I found that I was wrong. I do possess the musicianship to write my own song.
So I did it.
I’ve actually written two so far, and I may be ready to share the other one shortly, but for now, I’ll share this first one. I posted it on my other blog this morning. It was way scary uploading it to Youtube. I am way nervous about some mean person stumbling across it and writing some cruel comments. Drew even expressed concern over that. He made me burst out laughing last night when he said, “I don’t want you to be awake at night, crying, ‘Pumpkinhead427 doesn’t like my song!'” I told him if I received any criticism I’d remember pumpkinhead and laugh.
I am coming to grips with the fact that I am just starting out with songwriting, so of course they’re not going to be great. And that’s okay. They’ll get better as I write more (I hope…)
And sharing it is all part of the process. So, here it is. Lyrics below the video.
You Are
You are real
You are more than what I feel
You are
You are
You are more than a song
You are peace when all is wrong
You are
You are
(chorus)
You are perfection
You’re my direction
I want You to be all I need
You are consuming
You are moving
Come be all I need
You are all I want to want
You are all that haunts me
You are
You are
(chorus)
You are why I live
Or at least You should be
You are strength when I have nothing left to give
You are the best of me
(chorus out)