Wearing Thin

This song came about unexpectedly. It started when I was traveling for a few days and around a time I had given myself a goal of writing a certain number of songs. I felt the temptation to let my goal slide while traveling, but one day, nonetheless, I sat down to write. 


I didn’t have most of my musical instruments or equipment, but making electronic music was one thing I could still do. During this time, I was also experiencing some things that felt heavy. While experimenting with ideas, I came upon some sounds that unexpectedly captured my feelings. From there, I started building a song and felt like I had discovered an expression of my experiences.


Moments like these are one of the ways songwriting can seem magical to me. Every now and then, you happen upon some sounds or lyrics that tap into and express things in a way beyond your expectations. I’m thankful something made me sit down to write that day, otherwise I probably would have missed one of those moments.

show me the way now to higher ground

I’m writing down the truth that I found

I’m waiting for the sun to rise

for what’s dead to come to life 

not by strength or by might

let the truth go, by my side

this still feels like a million miles from here

 

looking at this, at this part of me

somehow else is there a way for us to be

I don’t see how I could get to that place

I don’t see how I could be what you need

I don’t accept your, your reality

I don’t accept this is how it has to be 

 

this is wearing thin

we are wearing thin

 

looking out at the land before me 

is this place just a memory

the time has come to say goodbye

will this be the last time

I’ve known this like nothing else 

am I losing part of myself

there’s more to go may I keep what’s behind

 

don’t forget the, the way things could be

do I want what it is I most need

this world doesn’t want how we’re meant to be

do I live like how it is I believe 

 

let’s write our own rules

write our own rules now

love is remembered, it’s not forgotten