my life as a lyric

remembering everything
about my world and when you came
wondering if the change you'd bring
means nothing else would be the same

did you know what you were doing?
did you know?
did you know how you would move me?
well, i don't really think so.
mae

There's nothing like hearing a song for the first time and being affected by the way it resonates with your life. Well, maybe when you hear it for the 34th time and it still resonates just as strong...

i recently found a lyric i wrote a while back... so far back i'm not even really sure when i first scribbled it. i'm trying to consolidate my various notebooks into one single book, and i'm finding all sorts of random crap that i had completely forgotten. this little phrase immediately resonated with me, since i'm planning on doing some solo shows, and have played one or two already -
so you want to know the stories
of my loves and my mistakes
i throw myself into the arms of these memories
and they carry me away

my songs are like lyrical memories. when i perform them the right way, i feel like i'm in the very moment that spawned the song... and hopefully, the listener feels the same way.

I'm not big on taking pictures of people... i think that those photos are incomplete. There is so much more that's NOT in the picture, when you're trying to capture an entire relationship in one image. That's one of the reasons i write songs, i think. with melody, movement, and mood, i can say more about a relationship than i could if i snapped a quick picture with my arm around someone.

maybe i'm just too lazy to use a camera. i paid so much for my guitar, i gotta come up with excuses to use it!