This song is a very personal one. And I’m glad it turned out the way it did.
I found the process in writing this interesting because it bonded my present lifestyle and my mentality of an athlete with the past, unmotivated and broken version of myself.
I display my vulnerabilities through my naive selflessness that is not returned by my selfish lover. However, this shows my strengths in that my capabilities in delivering and showering my beloved with love and affection cannot be overshadowed. It is without a doubt a strength, despite how much it weakens and hurts me to endure the dysfunctional relationship that I’m describing.
With this weakness, I hold a power. (This is where the present version of myself invites her thoughts into the song.) I turn my passions and inability to leave this man into a situation where I can whip him into shape- turn him into the man I think he can be.
Clearly, in real life, I left this situation. But looking back on my present self and how I view the world, I now see how I could hold onto a situation knowing I have power to work the odds of saving it into my favor. My past self gave up (reasonably so, I believe) because of a weakness and belief that she held no power.
Looking at this hypothetically: when you’ve devoted so much time and effort, is a tainted love worth saving? Or should you let go? Does love really prevail? Do we really hold as much power over others as we’d like to think?
Also consider this idea: Love is when you go astray, but always come back home.
Invite your thoughts. This is forum of honesty.
We’ve all loved.
Lost love.
Hoped for love.
Fought for it.
Against it. With it.
But, regardless of our individual relations to it, love impacts us all on a level that I’m sure we all can empathize with.
This song is genius. And I hope we did the original some justice.
Makes me remember why I love music so much.
Intelligence and eloquence.
Both in speech and art.
“I don’t know. I’ve been feeling really mortal lately. And if I could do anything, you know, from today. Not even look at it from years- today on. It’s just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence, you know. That’s really all I’m trying to do while I’m here.”
Self-explanatory.
Very few words can describe how anxious I am for the release of “Souled Out”.
