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The Layonara Community => Poetic License => Topic started by: laurabunny on November 11, 2006, 10:13:04 pm

Title: A song.
Post by: laurabunny on November 11, 2006, 10:13:04 pm
I wrote this a couple of years ago out of frustration with people telling me I was too young, or too pretty, or too talented to be depressed.  I'm not looking for comments; this is just one song I wrote that I never intend to record, but the funny thing about music is that it isn't finished until you share it.  You can't hear the melody, obviously, and I doubt it would help to include the changes, but since I won't record it, this is as shared as it will be, I think.

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You glance, or look, or stare at me,
I know what you think you see.
A pretty girl, a happy girl,
A life you wish you had.
But you don't know the things I hide.
You don't know last night I cried.
The lonely tears, the frightened tears,
I couldn't make them stop.

Don't tell me there's no reason to
Always feel the way I do
You're right, there's not, I know there's not
But knowing doesn't help

Please don't go telling me I shouldn't feel this way, it's not that simply, so stop!

I'm not who you think I am.
Title: Re: A song.
Post by: Cattery on November 12, 2006, 03:55:07 am
*hugs*  I understand.

"What are you depressed about?"  is another one - I hate it when I'm asked that.  If I knew specifically, I'd change it, or fix it, or learn to cope with it, but it's nothing so easily quantifiable.  "Too young/pretty/lucky/whatever" to be depressed; I don't think there's such a thing.
Title: Re: A song.
Post by: miasma_hemlock on November 13, 2006, 02:30:58 am
Aw Brielles!  Sad songs!

I'm actually playing this game because I was (and maybe still am) depressed about some things in real life and a friend said it's a good way to get away from your trouble..  And they were right..
Title: Re: A song.
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on November 13, 2006, 03:43:25 am
Hey, let's hear it for escapism to get away from our out-of-whack brain chemistry.

*Hugs*