Year Made: 2002

During Music class, we were asked to compose a song that represents the world revolving around a teenager. Little did I know that when I’d start this project, I would show to my class what the teenager inside of me has to say, and want to change in my whole damned life.

Alright

You say you are fine

But you hold them inside

Your emotions you feel, can’t pour ‘em out

You try to be strong

But you don’t know where you belong

All the pain and the hurt

Wanna rip your heart out

Wanna die so soon

Just get up and leave the world below?

Why force yourself

To go out and be with another man?

Chorus:

Be sane and be free

Get your car and drive out to reality

Be loved or make hate

Do everything you can before it is too late

Don’t just sit there and frown

There’s so much to be seen

So let go

Let go of anxiety

It’s gonna be alright

Don’t you hate it

When you are left alone

Can’t you say it

That you’re only vulnerable

Do your best, succeed—

You have done

But why are you so alone

Path’s all twisted and cracked

And you’re left in pieces…

(Go and be gone.)