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Sometimes there are obstacles in the road That you leave you feeling low And you don't know how to move forward And sometimes there are turns you wanna take But the way gets hard to trace Now you're wondering how did you get here When we come across obstacles, it's like that is all we see.  We forget that there are other things in our line of vision if we focus hard enough.  We lose sight of our goals and what we had originally set out to achieve because we listen to people telling us we cannot do it.  We allow our ears to be filled by negative thoughts and just because nobody else has done it the way that you are planning to - it doesn't mean that you can't.  It just means that they are not fully aware of the obstacles that in front of you either.  Instead, they try to limit your options because they could never see the same options for themselves.  If you continue to believe the worst in yourself, even after you have continued to be uplifted and pra...

I've been twisting and turning In a space that's too small I've been drawing the line and watching it fall You've been closing me in, closing the space in my heart Watching us fading and watching it fall apart You have to wonder how you got yourself into that small crevice of a space in the first place!  We never really take notice of our surroundings until it drastically changes around us and we become restricted in our movements.  Why weren't you paying attention?  Were you hoping that things would change, that conversations would eventually lead to somewhere that made sense to you?  Has your patience been rewarded?  Where do we learn to draw the line when we are constantly disappointed?  What if someone else is closing you in?  Can you get around them?  Avoid being pushed into a corner?  Will they eventually know when to start giving you space?  The connection may start to show some wear and tear and you may soon start to see th...

This is for someone right now. . .  It's not over, it's not finished It's not ending, it's only the beginning When God is in it, all things are new All things are new I know it's darkest just before dawn This might be the hardest season you experience I know it hurts, it won't be too long You're closer than you think you are You're closer than you've been before Look to the sky, help is on the way It's not over, it's not finished It's not ending, it's only the beginning When God is in it all things are new All things are new Have you come to situations where you have felt like you had no way to go but to give up?  When we look at situations with our human eyes, we don't have the eyes to see when there are other alternatives or pathways that we have yet to be explored.  We forget that we don't have the ability to see beyond what is right in front of us, particularly when we are in constant states of panic or w...

He was beautiful, beautiful to my eyes From the moment I saw him sun filled the skies My first experience with this song was with the original Cavatina but in piano score.  I had gone through a phase during high school where I was sight reading piano music with such a voracious appetite that the public library staff recognised me from all of the trips carting books back and forth.  I would take the books home and play them to death.  The pieces that I ended up liking I would photocopy and put them into folders so that I could play them over and over like reading my favourite books.  Cavatina is one of those pieces that I can play from memory because of this process.  I was familiar with Cleo Laine's work as a child from having seen her featured in a couple of commercials and hearing her voice.  She wrote the lyrics to this song and I have included her video below with John Williams.  When I heard these lyrics, it added another dimension that I appre...

I need the right one with a bright imagination Someone to talk to, somebody patient I wanna cold piece I wanna love sensation I want the mind first I'll make the body wait for it (wait for it) You could be the right one With a little dedication Gotta make me follow through Gotta make me chase it Oh I wanna stone groove I wanna love sensation Someone to hold to Someone to play with Trying to make yourself attractive to whoever you want to attract can be easy or hard.  There are a lot of factors that come into play, but at its most basic foundation, quite simply it has a lot to do with the fact that they are either into you or not.  Do you consider yourself a cold piece?  It might be hard to consider yourself a cold piece if you are not confident in yourself about who you are.  I have talked about this a lot with girlfriends and other different types of people in other contexts - where we draw the line between confident and cocky.  Being a cold piec...

How come every guy that I'm loving Is soon to disappoint, always frightened They will never hear when I need him But you come here right when I'm bleeding I guess it comes back to what you invest in with these guys that you keep falling for, these guys who can't give you what you are crying out for.  Are there things that you have set into motion that they aren't prepared to give?  Granted you can't have an answer for everything, a reason for why you do the things you do, sometimes you just do things because it feels right more than whether it is right.  You might like someone because of the way they make you feel but nothing really adds up to anything meaningful or long-term for the long haul.  Instead, you just enjoy the moments for what they are and not worry too much about the future, not worry too much about what is to come because we never really know what tomorrow brings.  Maybe you do this to protect yourself, so that when you get disappointed,...

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low? Remind me once again who I am because I need to know (ooh oh) Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.  You might be experiencing huge doubts of self-doubt, that you will not be able to complete tasks set before you that would normally have been easy to finish.  Those negative voices in your head that stop you from living your true potential, those negative voices in your head that have taken what others might have said to you growing up, may now have morphed into your own voice.  Which version of yourself - through all of the highs, through all of the lows do you want to be?  We examine the character of who we are in every victory and triumph, in every loss and failure.  We may even question who we are because we have forgotten and lost parts of ourselves along the way.  We may even fi...

I'll never let you see The way my broken heart is hurting me I've got my pride and I know how to hide All the sorrow and pain I'll do my crying in the rain The song opens with the soft sound of rainfall before the band entry and the sound of thunder strikes.  The vocal harmony is very interesting.  I guess for me because their most famous track being Take on me which has more call and response featured, it is nice to hear the interplay between the two vocal lines.  I had never heard this cover version of the song until last week.  Why do we choose never to have people not see us at our most vulnerable?  There may not be many times that you have been able to see people at their weakest point because being able to be real or sharing your real feelings is only reserved for those who can understand how best to react to you without judgement (and that could quite possibly be the longest sentence I've ever written without punctuation lol).  Do you let ...

What do you do it for? What are you running for? What are you running towards? What are you trying to prove? What do you got to lose? What is the path you choose? There are lots of people around me having existential crises at the moment (gees, maybe myself included I suspect).  They have started to lose their way and starting to question what the point is of being on this earth and why the life decisions they have made have led them to this place, to this plateau in their lives. What do you do it for?  What are you running for?  Until you figure out what your "it" is, then there isn't really any point to run for anything, because you are not yet aware of your purpose, more specifically, your divine purpose. Are there any special goals that you are running towards?  You may be running towards people that you want to be around, need to be around for your own sanity.  Some of these people may even be running towards you and you don't know what to do ab...

What do you do When you've done all you can And it seems like it's never enough? And what do you say When your friends turn away And you're all alone? Tell me, what do you give When you've given your all And it seems like You can't make it through? There will be so many times when you think that you have done all you can.  You have to question sometimes though, how much do you have to do in order for you to know that you've done all you can?  Is it to your own personal satisfaction?  Or is it according to how friends, family or acquaintances believe that you have?  There is a measuring stick for every situation and I guess until there is some sort of recognition or indication that you have reached a goal, that someone has acknowledged that you have done all you can - then you won't really know.  You might have gone through some situations in the past where you weren't really sure if you had achieved what was expected of you.  There was no way ...

The room grew still As she made her way to Jesus She stumbles through the tears That made her blind She felt such pain Some spoke in anger  Heard folks whisper There's no place here for her kind When you have been singled out and made to feel like you don't belong - how do you deal with that?  When people have openly ridiculed or talked about you behind your back because they have nothing else better to do, what have you done about it?  It might be easy to say to ignore it and rise above it all, but when the ridicule and talk become too difficult to ignore, there must be some ways to deal with it and give yourself some peace of the mind at the same time.  There is something to be said about pushing on and pushing through when people expect their taunts and jibes to stop you in your tracks.  How did you dig deep and force yourself to carry on?  Besides, people don't really understand what you have gone through to get you to where you are. ...

I close my eyes and I can see The world that's waiting up for me That I call my own Through the dark, through the door Through where no one's been before But it feels like home What do you call home?  There will be so many obstacles that come in the form of people or things and events that threaten to keep you from calling any place, home.  If you cannot find that physical place to call home it might be safer to instead think of what home feels like within yourself.  The best thing about doing that is nobody can take that away from you unless you give them the power to do so.  Do you believe that you have the power to create your own world?  I have had so many people around me at various stages of their lives, talk to me about how they are not in control of their own situations and their own worlds.  The responsibilities, obligations and things that they have to do in order to make other people's lives possible, to make their quality of life pos...