My Soul on Paper

Words are incredibly powerful. There's a reason why songs have lyrics, poetry is so moving, a novel can make you laugh, cry, jump for joy... 

Words are magic.

And sometimes, I try to capture a little bit of that magic, to express myself. I write poetry and song lyrics, and within the last few years I've started writing piano parts for my lyrics.

Maybe one of these days if I'm feeling brave, I'll post some on here. Maybe.

Sharing is hard for me, because when I'm writing, it's the deepest parts of me that I'm putting on a page. It's terrifying for me to throw my soul out to the world, not knowing how it will be received... And I'm not sure if I'm good or not. Some of it is, maybe... I dunno. But! That's not what this post is about.

This is about 'I'm Sorry Now' which is the set of lyrics that I most recently completed.

A friend of mine, Vig, is a crazy cool musician, but he only writes instrumentals. So at the beginning of last month, he called me over at lunch to listen to this piece he'd wrote- really pretty, but really sad. And he asked me to write lyrics for him, because he knows I do that.

So for the last month, Vig and I have been collaborating on this piece. It's the first time I've ever written something with somebody else. This is a whole new level of terrifying for me.

Because it's super weird for me to let somebody else in like that, to have Vig see all the little bits and pieces as a song comes together. It's weird because writing is such a personal thing, so close to my heart, such a huge piece of my soul. And it's scary.

We've actually finished it, roughly. Got all the words and the music, just gotta put it together. And I like it a lot; I think it's fantastic. It's one of my favourite pieces that I've ever written. So it was probably good for me to get out of my comfort zone and work with Vig on this.

However, that doesn't make it any less terrifying. Letting people see my soul exposed like that... Yikes. Just yikes.

But I did it. :]