Love and Let Go
An original song about moving forward.
I tried to write a song about my happiness,
I put the words on paper and it was a mess.
So I went back to everything that’s real to me,
a broken heart, redemption and resiliency.
You can’t make yourself feel joy,
you have to learn from what you lose.
If there’s one thing I have learned, it’s that you can’t be open hearted
and stay bullet proof.
You’ve got to…
La La La La, La La La La
Love and let go, love and let go.
La La La La, La La La La
Love and let go,
love, love, love,
and let go.
Sometimes when I try to share my inner truth,
I push to far to fast and put too much on you.
I’m still learning how to listen to my heart
and how to play together and to play my part.
I can’t change myself around, I was made to fill this role.
But there’s one thing I have learned,
I have to give my heart away to make it whole.
So I will…
I want to fling my heart
open to the world
let the beauty in and get the ugly out.
I want to sing!
Looking at the future we can make,
the world is ours to conquer,
joy is ours to take!
If we just…
15 years ago, I was the host of a songwriters group in Pasadena California. We met for over two years, and one of the things my co-writers kept telling me was “Girl, you gotta write some happy songs.” Given my history as a performer in a vocal group where the only thing the leader every did was yell at us while we were performing on stage to “SMILE!”, this was not feedback I was readily open to hearing. I’m not a dancing monkey. I had gone through a divorce, was struggling to find myself and my purpose in the world, I didn’t feel like butterflies and rainbows were exactly the flavors overflowing from my cup in that moment. I took some time to adjust my attitude, adopted a gratitude for everything I DID have. I had heart, I had pluck, I was a survivor dammit. This resulting song was a celebration of those attributes.
The group loved it. I shared it with others and it eventually got turned into a vocal jazz arrangement and performed by the incredible Valencia, CA High School group at the Monterey Jazz festival in 2016.
I’ve recently come to terms with the lovely fear relinquishing fact that it’s not my job as a writer, as a singer or performer, to translate what my music is supposed to mean to every person that encounters it. My only job is to release my gifts into the world, to let them flow where they will, and be grateful to let them be what they are meant to be to every person who may encounter them.
Enjoy! And please, if you do enjoy it, pass it along. Let it flow.