Sophie: Young Love

So, tell us who is Sophie?

Sophie is a young girl in love with a young boy.

I see. Sophie isn’t about someone you had a childhood crush on? Is she someone in your life right now?

No.

No?

No…I mean most of us fall in love with someone when we happen to be very young and naive to the world. I’m no exception.

Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. You wrote this song about someone in your life?

No…not at the moment. I wrote the song about two young people who have a real, true love for each other. I’m promoting young love.

Really? So, you think kids cutting classes, sneaking around behind their parent’s back, and ignoring what their parent’s told them do is a good thing?

Uh-uh. Uh-mmm…

And, kids having sex and fooling around is cool to you?

When it’s a real, true love it can’t be denied. Love follows through. Doesn’t matter how old you are.

Let’s look at these words:
Rainbows and butterflies
All of my hopes and dreams,
when I’m with you Sophie
They can only try, but they can’t take what we feel inside 

What does this mean? What are you trying to say?

Hopes, rainbows, dreams, and butterflies…well, those are all simply wonderful things.

Sounds like you want kids to be free to do drugs, have sex for the sake of being “in love”, and avoid getting an education, not to grow up and become upstanding citizens.

Well, that’s a very lop-sided and unbalanced view. Guess you’ve never been in love.

This is not about me. It’s about you…

Green Day.

Excuse me.

Wake Me Up When September Ends.

Hmmm?

I saw the video about a year ago. The one when the boy decides to go off to war and his girlfriend gets mad at him. But, he feels more obligated to serve in the war. The video was great because it was painful…

What?

…painfully clear that, in general, real, true love is constantly ignored and denied by so many people in this world. But, I know young love can be just as real as any other kind of love… so, I, put it in a song.

I see….so you want us to think that kids who are “in love” are capable of making responsible decisions that could ruin the rest of their lives?

Wake me up when this interview ends….

Your Verve

Your verve takes on the shining of the moonlight that cuts through the mist of the darkness…
Were it not for my heart’s bliss, I know of no day that has been sent without your verve being evident, nor where it went…
So innocent by it’s very nature and is able to capture the barest essence of the situation to find such a rewarding solution with overt, yet simple communication…
Your verve meets the summation of my existence, meant to multiply; though others may try, wish to deny, and put inside of me doubt, I turn a deaf ear for fear has no place here…
It appears to take on the clarity of a winter’s day upon which the snow has already fallen on the ground and makes you see the snow-capped mountains just to question how could a simple wisdom be so beautiful…
Yes, your verve is meaningful, even being placed in the highest of orders with the first commandment being peace, it takes on the shining of the moonlight cutting through the mist of my darkness,
quickly…
urgently…
needfully…
becoming my heart’s bliss.

Scars: Behind the Mask

I wrote this song in September 2005 in one night. At the time, it was the most personal song I had written. I thought I would never top this writing. Then, I wrote Answers this year. This month I’ve finally written and produced the music track for Scars.

This song is a true to life story. Even now, thinking of what to write about stirs up many emotions – some unresolved, some accepted.

I was born with many medical problems that has left me with several physical scars. Whew! (Okay… I can do this…)

For 99% of my life, I’ve kept these scars hidden from the physical view. As a kid I avoided a lot of ridicule by being quiet, shy, and keeping to myself. I’ve never been an extroverted type of person, I have only learned through adulthood how important it is to speak up if/when you want to be heard. That lesson has helped me overcome my scars and forge forward into becoming a well balanced man.

Have you ever met a man too afraid to fall in love,
because of the scars that won’t disappear?
What’s life without someone special to be thinking of,
not the scars that are always here?

I guess the older you get, the more mature you become, and the less you care about what people think of you. When you realize all you truly have is Love for people and you can see that we all suffer some kind of pain, then you can begin to find the relevance and meaning of your experience. With that understanding, you can confidently share your experience with Love that can positively impact someone else’s life to move forward and grow.

Who hasn’t been afraid to fall in love these days, fearing the pain of a breakup, the trouble from “drama”, the disappointments of selfishness, and surrendering to the doubts? I’m trying to shift my focus, y’all, and stop being so guarded against chances to fall in love. I’m trying to enhance my other qualities like self-esteem, wit, maturity, knowledge, Spirituality, and my passion for music and writing. I fight to keep a balanced perspective of my physical body as just a “shell”, with scars, pimples, short height, baggy eyes, and my two gapped-teeth…HA!!!!!

Kids are influenced by everything they see
thinking that’s how they’re supposed to be
Mamas and papas teach your babies’ minds to be free
that’s how they’re supposed to be

For so many years, I’ve avoided taking pictures because I thought I’d never measure up to the perfect expectations. I was so locked into the media hyped-up value of image and lifestyle. Being so young and unaware, it is easy to want what you see “out” there because it’s not inside or around you. Thanks to technology and Photoshop we can all look flawless, photo-finished like in a magazine.

But, I don’t want that anymore. Still, people feed the contradictions by being distracted from a positive message because it doesn’t “look” right. How is positive supposed to look anyway? I thought being positive was about a feeling, a mentality.

We all have Scars, whether they are physical or emotional. All I can really do is hope that you will not deny or ignore your scars, but you instead reshape them in your mind to being those distinguishing marks that make up a beautiful You!

Thank you!