Long Road Goodbye...

[edenbreathing]

I tend to write in an almost bittersweet type fashion when I'm working on lyrics. It's because I view the world in the same way. It's hard for me to produce a song built on anger, because I don't live my life that way. It's equally hard for me to write a song on a virtuous and perfect love in that I don't believe it exists. Perhaps Hans Christian

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[rivendarkangel]

4-20 seems to have been a day of creativity for almost everyone. I like this one. This lesson, I've had to learn recently myself.. But, it's better to lave learned I suppose, than to be ignorant or things like this. Some people spend their whole lives learning lessons like this.

[edenbreathing]

This type of experience...is the preferable one. While I've had many relationships that are exceedingly beautiful (not limited to a significant other type relationship either), there are some that are destined to be stagnant. Beautiful for a lifetime. But it never grows, and it never changes...and in that...the beauty becomes redundant. I know I have quite the track record of "love em and leave em", but it's just not the case when viewed at a personal level. It's a private journey that sometimes gets too unbearable to contain within myself. Thank goodness I'm a writer/vocalist. Or I'd have to join some sort of group therapy.

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[rivendarkangel]

Yep. The sooner learned, in most cases, the better. Sometimes people just drift for their own reasons, sometimes they grow apart, or a sudden change forces them so. It sucks.. But there is a certain.. dignity might work? ... to simply learning from things, venting as you need, and moving on as you can. Expression is key. Therapy seems to be just a sort of guided self-expression you pay for, which isn't very good in my view. You can do as well talking with friends, which is venting.. And I'm going to ramble if I keep going. I stop.

Wow, that is excellent

[jeremyc]

That song hits many nails on the head. Recently (actually just over a year ago, but who's counting), I was "walked out" on by my girlfriend of two years for the same reason you wrote about in your song. It was great, so beautiful, but in the end, she didn't see it as forever. The right decision (to leave, not HOW she left) was made and I am grateful of it now, but there were many nights I didn't think we made it our 1000 miles - but we did.

Keep up your writing, it is deeply touching...I'm feeling it.

Re: Wow, that is excellent

[edenbreathing]

I think it's the type of relationship people don't want to remember, because in reality it's the most painful. The "what if's" and "might have been's" pile up and leave you alone somewhere crying. It's also hard for me especially because as a songwriter I'm quite naked up on a stage with my most intimate and private thoughts being told to complete strangers, and it always hurts to see people react in a way I know has touched them...and with this type of song I know I'm dredging up feelings that most would prefer to stay buried. As an artist, it's the highest compliment to be told by someone "I understand". So thank ~you~. And I fully intend to keep writing, knowing that there are people out there who can relate to my own humble existance.