writer. singer/songwriter. techie geek. princess of random.

Yesterday was one of those days where things were happening left and right, back-to-back.  Which not only led me to forget my medication, but ultimately just tuckered me out by the end of the day.  So naturally, I had a time out and took some time to play with my guitar.

I ended up doing a YouTube video of a song that felt like a reflection of the day.  My song “Hmm” – which has a humming part to it (hence the title).  I wrote it on a bad day a long time ago while also thinking about the economy and how people’s lives have been shaped from it, and just how people’s lives become shaped in general.  How often have we chosen a path, watch time passed, and suddenly wonder why it is we “fight the good fight” when it’s not even that good?

-cct

YouTube:

Ruby Slippers

I wrote this awhile ago and in testing out my new guitar, I ended up recording a YouTube video of it.  The song has obvious references to The Wizard of Oz and is about the idea of the yellow brick road as the road to life.

YouTube and Lyrics below

Ruby Slippers (cc.tran)

Ruby slippers on my feet
They cant seem to take me home
Howd I end up so deep?
To feel so alone?

Every time I seem to walk
The further I get behind
Every time I seem to run
Im running out of time

Am I buried beneath a house
On the yellow brick road?
Did someone write my fate
And I wasnt told?
Im not ready to be dead yet
Still looking out for home.

I wish it were as easy
As the click clack of my heels
That the road was drawn out for me
Like a used textbook deal

Am I walking on a winding
Winding road
Did someone take the street signs
And I wasnt told
I dont know anything yet
Just that Im looking out for home.

Am I made of straw
Unwound, wont ever get far
Do I have a mane
Flinch in the sight of – pain

I think Im made of tin
Need a new heart to begin
This ones battered and cold
Need a new one to find hope

Ruby slippers on my feet
Can you take me home

-cct

I always find it amazing the sheer amount of volume of things I have written, tucked away, and forgotten.  The other day I pulled a line from an old poem that was simply “Lie to Me” and on my evening work break I finished up the song I started from that…entitled Lie to Me.  For any Buffy fans, this is not a reference to a Buffy Season 2 Episode, but I applaud you if you did remember that.

This song is about wanting someone to lie to you, not forever but just for a little while.  Where – in hindsight – this can either be good or bad, but I think there’s something to be said about the duration in which you can believe something to be true. 

As in, the validity of parental praise regardless of the truth does build up self-esteem to some degree, no?  So I find that true about moments in life, sometimes people just need a good lie maybe more than the truth.  I think my favorite part of this song that conveys this is in the bridge: “Cause in life when the glass slipper falls/It’ll shatter/And when you’re walking on broken glass/What does it matter?”

Lyrics:

Lie to Me (cc.tran)

Can you hold on to your honesty?
Can we linger longer here?
Yes I’m saying lie to me
Oh – don’t take me away from here.

Chorus
Cause there’s gotta be more to this
There’s gotta be more than just this rush
And if that’s not the truth
Lie to me enough
Can you just lie to me
Can you just lie to me
Just let me be-lieve
I’m not saying die with me
Or even side with me
Just let me have enough.

You and I were dancing to a melody
Only you and I could hear
You were leading
I didn’t question destiny
I just wanted you near

Chorus

Cause in life when the glass slipper falls
It’ll shatter – oh oh oh
And when you’re walking on broken glass
What does it matter - oh oh oh

If you just lie to me
Can you just lie to me
Just let me be-lieve
I’m not saying die with me
Or even side with me
Just give me enough.

-cct