Lyrics of a Life

I've written songs/lyrics most of my life. When I look back at older lyrics, they clearly show where I was in my life. Some are tough to read but prove that life always gets better. I use these as a way of reflecting back to my worst times to prove that remaining positive brings change.

Anyone else do something like this, in a diary, poem or songs?

This song was written 8 years ago and called...

You Just Don't Know Me


I woke today, with tear stained
eyes
Dreams so real that I hurt inside
Thoughts of people no longer
here
Thoughts of the end that’s growing
near
Wasted words spoken to deaf
ears
Wasted tears shed throughout the
years
Childhood memories of family torn
apart
Forever changed my growing
heart
And I realize ...

I’ll never get it back

CHORUS

Happy man I appear outside
Lonely man hidden deep inside
First to laugh, brighten up the
room
Camouflage for my endless gloom
Try to tell me how to live my life
Tell me all the things I don’t do
right
You can walk in my shoes
But they just won’t fit
I’m fighting every day to just not
quit
So realize…

You just don’t know me

END CHORUS

Telling myself it will be alright
Fooling myself, extinguished light
Sadness filled life for all these
years
Making you laugh,while holding back
my tears
Reaching for hope, slipping
through my grasp
Turning around I keep looking
back
I've tried to show love with a leaking
heart
Want to finish the race but trip at
the start

And I realize…

I’ll never get it back

CHORUS

Happy man I appear outside
Lonely man hidden deep inside
First to laugh, brighten up the
room
Camouflage for my endless gloom
Try to tell me how to live my life
Tell me all the things I don’t do
right
You can walk in my shoes
But they just won’t fit
I’m fighting every day to just not
quit
So realize…

You just don’t know me