When you tell me I'm the only one you need. . .
When I am lost
You shine a light for me and set me free
When I am low
You wash away my tears and take me through
Where do you go when you are lost? When you are low?
Music has always been a great source of comfort, peace and freedom that ensures that I don't feel lost or low. I sometimes wonder if people around me have the same kind of support network at their disposal? I have been having conversations with people around me who are dealing with other people with increased mental health issues and it made me think about what people are going through. When lights are shined for you, are you able to recognise them for what they are? Lights can shine on you to highlight further what your gifts and talents are so that you can continue to shine for yourself, but be careful that others don't take control of how you can be set free. Nobody needs to get it twisted like Kanye.
The loneliness
The emptiness
Through the darkest night
Somehow I survive through it all
Loneliness and emptiness usually denote negative connotations. but you should actually embrace those feelings and attach positive connotations to those. Attach the necessary subfeelings to those emotions and use them as indicators to fuel your surroundings, rather than have them tug you in the usual low level direction. It might take you a while to figure out how you are actually going to survive through it all. Sometimes on dark nights, you might be able to see those shining lights more clearly. You might even welcome where they shine, on you, on your situation, on other things that need to be highlighted to cast more brilliance on what you need to see, that you might have missed previously. Sometimes people try to rush through difficult obstacles rather than processing through it. You shouldn't rush through pain. It is meant to be there to teach you how to eventually cope, to arrive at hope.
When you tell me I'm the only one you need
Sweet and tenderly
And your love
Breaks away the clouds surrounding me
All I have I want to give to thee
Are you the only one someone needs?
There will be times when people reach out to you because they will miss you and what you are, who you are in their lives. That is a natural phenomenon and it is always nice to be on the receiving end of people who genuinely care about you, or for you to reciprocate in kind and reach out to those who you sense needs the contact? It might mean staying away from people who are draining, especially if they are clouds that like to surround you to absorb the light that you emit. Can you be the love that someone needs to break away other people's clouds? It is hard to know whether people will truly appreciate the good things that you do for them, and whether they will be able to thank you appropriately.
If I should fall
Your love is strong enough to lift me up
If I'm afraid
You chase away my fears
And take me to
Living a life where you try to prepare as much as possible not to fall, is no way to live.
It is a challenge to live life hard, to really interrogate the boundaries that keep you in and try to keep you under control. When you fall, what is strong enough to lift you up? What is weighing you down? In the past it might have been enough for someone's love to sustain you or lift you, but maybe lately maybe it isn't? Especially if that person's love is not able to be touched upon as easily as it has been in the past, because they have since passed on from this realm into the next. So what do you do when you are afraid? Don't dwell on your fears right? There are ways in which you can transform your fears into something that can help you to create something that is far more constructive to help you live your best life. But that can only happen if you can let go of things that do not serve you in the long run.
A brighter place
Beyond the rain
And I feel alright
Because you're by my side
Through it all
Rain can be a good thing.
It can cleanse you from the things that try to stick to you. It can also push you to receive nurture to help you grow if you let it. If we have been in the sun too long, it can be welcome relief from the harsh sunlight that can often keep us exposed in almost desert-like conditions. Have you been out too long in the sun do you think? Some people have a higher tolerance for being out in the sun than others. Sometimes sunblock just isn't enough and people refrain from venturing out into the sun at all. Preferring instead to keep their skin as porcelain as their bathroom. Surround yourself with people who help you to run your race in life with encouragement. Those are the types of people who are worth keeping alongside. Those who want the best for you and can be shoulders for you to lean on when all you have felt has been only futility and pain.
Want to give you all of my love
Now and forever my love
All I have I want to give to thee
I hope that you can offer your best to yourself first these days.
There should be enough for you to realise that giving yourself so freely to others, although noble, defeats the purpose of you being able to focus on and do what you need to do. There is a journey that only you must complete, so you must be prepared to complete it, despite all of the obstacles, in spite of them. There are people that are counting on you to fail, hoping that you give up. This journey is not about them. You might need to find your own personal tools that help you give love to the best that can help you in the long run. I guess that's how I feel about music, and the relationship that I have with it. When people can disappoint, listening to songs can keep you sustained until you no longer require people who do not have your best interests at heart. Music will always need you, because it will always need an audience and can be the biggest muse if you let it. It does tell me things that make me smile. This month is going to be a tough one. Loma, my muse in so many ways that I hadn't realised until he had gone, would often say too, when you tell me I'm the only one you need. . .