Clarity
You can’t cry in the rain…
Rain has been forever used symbolically as a cleansing of the spirit and mind.
I had always wanted to write a song about the rain, besides its symbolism I just love rainy days. One day I sat down with my guitar and decided to let the weather impact my writing. I’m always fascinated by ideas that can have more than one meaning. To say “you can’t cry in the rain”, can mean the rain will wash away your sadness and make you new or very simply you can’t see tears when they’re covered by the rain. “Clarity” is the listeners’ song, just like the rain affecting every heart in its own special way.
Crystal droplets dance in the trees
Set free from the clouds
Waiting for the day they’re set free
Each splash with their own sound
Voiceless cries echo in the night
Instant clarity surrounds me
The tears that I once shed grow colder in the light
Thunderous skies will save me from my tears
You can’t cry in the rain
No you can’t lose yourself to the pain
The strength you find your heart can’t hold won’t let you slip away
No you can’t cry in the rain
Silver glistening through the air
I don’t wanna stop and just stare
I want to feel the breeze and ride the pain
Listen to the rhythm of the rain
Yesterday is washed away as water runs down the window pane
With heavy steps let go of fear be brave like the rain
Falling through the atmosphere no scars left from the years
And all these moments are lost with the tears
Tunnel
I always wanted to write a song as a gift for someone, but those always turned out to be the most difficult ones to finish.
So when my best friend was going through one hard time after another I felt the only way I could truly speak to her was through music. It was hard to just tell her to cheer up, because she was always a happy person. So to see her this devastated was heartbreaking. Tunnel was just that song to let her know that her light would return to her once again.
Tough as nails til you break like glass
Let the wind control your destiny but it won’t wash away your past
Numb to the pain the pain hide the scars that bruise
Let the rain take away your doubt baptize the pain within
This world’s gonna break your heart tear you apart
You can’t show it on your face
I know the tears in your eyes won’t let you escape just pray
When fire consumes your passion
Watch the heavens rain down their love on you
This tunnel can’t go on forever see the skies open up their arms of grace to you
Happy ever after don’t happen in one chapter
Let the sun shine down on you
And sing
Got a heart with a hundred rooms now each one of them is locked
Tired of your heart strings being pulled round and round but where’s the key to unlock your
Spirit from this emptiness love left black by hollowness
Blow away the ash
Let my hope move its way to you and you’ll see
All that I see in you
And live each moment like it’s the only one you get
Just hold on to the dreams you see at night
Don’t lose faith in the life that you’ve been given
Close your eyes and sing, live, and breathe
Just breathe
In Stone
I just want to start by saying I’m not usually super cheesy. But for some reason one day I decided to write a fairy tale song of my own.
The first line of the song was actually something thrown out in a different writing session that didn’t get used, but stuck with me. And that line was actually the inspiration to “In Stone”.
It’s just an all around good hearted love song, written about no one that was in my life at the time, but someone wanting to exist.
I wrote the book called lonely until I met you
All my dreams were fading now they’re coming true
I lost my direction now I’m heading for you
You rewrite a chapter a day now I can’t walk away
Ride into the sunset our troubles left behind
In a world where chaos thrives we’ll finally find
Our never ending perfect days where troubles all melt away
Fairy tales have perfect endings now mines got one too
Living in make believe or disbelief I’ve tried
Spending my days learning to walk this thin line
Now the stars have aligned and our destinies are entwined
Words are no longer set in stone your heart’s become my home
I never believed it possible but you have
Changed my world from standing still
Happy ever after happens in this chapter
Until the end of my days