Week One: Lions

Since I announced this project, I have often wondered if it was a horrible mistake. What was I thinking? Why did I tell THE INTERNET my plan? How will I be able to slink away quietly now that everyone knows what I've committed to do? Committing in public is a really effective way to make sure it gets done. It also hurts. 

But of course, there are bright sides. I've received overwhelming positive feedback and support for this little idea, which has bolstered me against my own insecurities. And, even though I felt grumbly and stressed all week, I actually wrote two new songs. One of them I even like. I doubt that would have happened if not for this painful public commitment. 

So here's the first: Lions. It's a few months old, but I've only played it in public once. I wrote it in a sort of fury, frustrated at myself for writing songs so infrequently. It can't be that hard, I griped, and sat down on the couch and wrote it in a sitting. It wasn't that hard.

It's coupled with a blurry video of my drive home in the sunset. I shot this video the day I decided to commit to this project. I was sky-high on the idea, and the world was teeming with beauty to be captured.

Lyrics:
Just grasping at straws and still the right threads come along
and wind themselves around the heart of it
I know now I've been wrong
Know there was a river, running all along

Oh the movie's over all the colors fade to black
the final scene a long pan of the lovers walking, 
hands are clasped
The crew is in the camera van
Yeah I'm lying in the back.

Go home and put the kettle on
Leave the lions lying on the lawn
When the pain whispers to the time
I know your ways, you know mine.

Go home and put the kettle on
Leave the lions lying on the lawn
Until the pain whispers to the time
You go your way, I'll go mine

I know there is a river, running all along.

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Thanks for listening. I hope that on the other side of this project, I look back and say, It wasn't that hard.

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