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Friday, August 5, 2011

Be a Songwriter! It's Journal Entry Friday!


Well, Wednesday I posted Demi Lovato's video SKYSCRAPER. I think this song is SO RAW and SO RELEVANT for so many girls today. Demi's life has turned upside down while her fans watch and she has pulled herself up and started to heal with us as her audience.

As I watched the video for the first time all I could think was how HEALING it must have been to literally let it all out on camera. Her face, her voice, her clenched fists all say, "This has n't been easy, but I will survive!"

Think of the worst thing you have ever been through - maybe you are going through it right now - wouldn't it be amazing to let go of all the pain and fill the air around you will words that will help you to heal?

Picture yourself on the set of that video, put YOU in the spotlight instead of Demi and watch the video play out in your mind...(don't let the "I don't have her voice" thought even enter your mind...in this exercise you DO have her voice) the camera has just YOUR face in its gaze, YOU are screaming out YOUR pain, YOUR tears come, YOUR fists are clenched and it's YOUR feet walking on broken glass.... the camera pans back and it is YOU letting go of all the pain and all the turmoil...

Now, I can't promise you a video crew and a multi-million dollar video out of this but writing YOUR song would be amazing, wouldn't it?

So, for your journal entry this week, I want you to model a song after Demi's - use the tune and her lyrics as your guide but change the words into YOUR OWN.

Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching teardrops in my hands
Only silence, as it's ending, like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me?

You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

As the smoke clears
I awaken and untangle you from me
Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed
All my windows still are broken but I'm standing on my feet
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

Go run run run I'm gonna stay right here
Watch you disappear yeah
Go run run run yeah it's a long way down
But I'm closer to the clouds up here

You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Ohh
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper

I WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE to see what you have written if you are comfortable sharing! Please leave it as a comment so others can see your heart - I think you will find this exercise VERY freeing! I am excited to see what your heart tells you!

And, as always, feel free to print and use the journal page provided!


6 comments:

  1. You are fighting
    I am watching
    Watch the tears run down your face
    Only silence
    As the ending
    Like you never had a chance
    Do you have to make me feel like
    This is all because of me

    You've given me everything I have
    You're breaking everything I am
    Like I'm made of glass
    And your both made of paper
    Go on and tear each other down
    I will be rising from the ground
    Like a skyscraper
    Like a skyscraper

    As the screams clear
    I am shaking
    I untangle you from me
    Does it make you
    Feel better
    To watch him as he leaves
    All the hearts here
    Are still breaking
    But I'm standing on my feet

    You've given me everything I have
    You're breaking everything I am
    Like I'm made of glass
    And your both made of paper
    Go on and tear each other down
    I will be rising from the gorund
    Like a skyscraper
    Like a skyscraper

    As he run run runs
    Your gonna stay right here
    Watch him disappear
    As he run run runs
    The falls a long way down
    But I'm closer to the clouds up here

    You've given me evrything I have
    You're breaking everything I am
    Like I'm made of glass
    And your both made of peper
    Go on and tear each other down
    I will be rising from the ground
    Like a skyscraper
    Like a skyscraper

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  2. These lyrics are AMAZING! Your heart is all over them! Thank you so much for sharing! I hope your heart is healing! <3

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  3. I am silent, as I'm watching
    Crimson teardrops hit the floor
    I am choking, back the tears, but I'm not sure what their for. 
    Must I feel so lost and hopeless ? Will I ever be at ease ? 

    Could you take all the pain away
    Could you break every wall I make
    Like it's made of glass
    Watch it burn like paper
    Could you please try and patch me up
    Cover up every scar and cut
    Be my skyscraper, be my skyscraper

    As my head clears, and the pain fades, I can see just what I've done. 
    never wanted, to be like this, please, someone help me to my feet. 

    Could you take all the pain away
    Could you break every wall I make
    Like it's made of glass
    Watch it burn like paper
    Could you please try and patch me up
    Cover up every scar and cut
    Be my skyscraper, be my sky scraper

    Trying to fly fly fly , up and away from here
    Until I disappear, yeah
    Trying to fly fly fly,  but I keep falling down
    And I'm farther than I was before.

    Could you take all the pain away
    Could you break every wall I make
    Like it's made of glass
    Watch it burn like paper
    Could you please try and patch me up
    Cover up every scar and cut
    Be my skyscraper, be my sky scraper
    Be my skyscraper, be my skyscraper
    Please, be my skyscraper..

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  4. I am in awe! Your opened your heart and let us all peek inside your soul. SO AMAZING! Keep writing! You are beautifully talented! Thank you for sharing!

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  5. I am crying, You are watching,
    Me look at my tears hit the floor,
    Only Silence, as it's ending, like i never had a chance,
    Do you have to make me feel like im nothing?,
    You can watch everything i do,
    You can Like im some monster you approved,
    Like im made of glass,
    like im made of paper,
    Go on and knock me down,
    I will be getting right back on my feet,
    Like I always do.
    As my life clears
    I awaken and forget everything you did to me,
    Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed?
    Just a little bit of them not all i couldn't think of anything else

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  6. WOW! So REAL, so RAW! Thank you for sharing! Don't stop writing!

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