"Write Your Own Song"

Write Your Own Song Lyrics and Reflection

All the different colors and heritages,
peoples variety will never subside. 

Many different standards,
Thoughts, aspirations that make people different
Individuality isnt needed to survive.

Stepping out from the crowd
Making every possible mistake
Learning through a different light,
Living a different day

Take a walk on the wild side
Step away from the modern day crowd
Discover your own style
True colors can never be too loud
Finding your surreal self
Can lead to so much more
Meeting new people
Opens up a new door

Stepping out from the crowd
Making every possible mistake
Learning through a different light,
Living a different day

Its up to us to end all segregation
Teach the world life isn’t about looks
But instead ambitions
Determined to break all stereotypes in our generation
The media may influence us
But making our own decisions is part of our success
And as individuals we only settle for the best

Well, the past is the past
And histories been decided
It is up to our generation to make the world undivided
Have fun, be our selves- our only task
And individuality is something we don’t want to mask



Reflection-

With my song I wanted to be able to address an issue that maybe other people my age can see and think about as well. I first began writing about current problems such as war and pollution but later moved to something that people can relate to a little easier. The feeling and maybe attitude of being different or left out because of a certain quality seemed like a popular theme around teenagers, so I decided to write my song about the quality of being unique and the acceptance of that in our modern day culture.
The first verse opens with the description of different people and our population, " All the different colors and heritages, peoples variety will never subside" this is saying how people can be physically different, and that’s accepted in our culture. I also wanted to introduce our attitudes and psychology that makes us utterly the same or different "Thoughts, aspirations that make people different Individuality isn't needed to survive". We learn through examples and have gone through eras where people choose to follow a stereotype.
My chorus is a short couple of lines that describe what maybe a person should do to find there inner self or really something they enjoy. It goes into saying that you might be "making every possible mistake" by stepping out from what your used to, but in the end by "learning through a different light" you will be seeing a different side to things that you thought were only single side. Personally, by challenging myself to look beyond what i'm used to seeing, and having empathy for people or situations that I might not have, I truly sometimes live a "different day" and appreciate what I have more.
The third stanza explains the importance of "discovering your own style", and how by doing a different routine or be-friending some new people, can open up doors in your life and create opportunities for things you want to do in the future. Lines in the fourth stanza support ideas of internal change and go into saying about how modern day society may encourage equalism but there is still some segregation and factors that are up to our generation to change.
"Convinced by the media The news, and so much more Telling us how high we can soar", this line describes how our culture is really dependent on our media and luxuries to tell us what to think is up to date and what topics we should stay away from. In reality, I believe in order to be unique and be ourselves its important to do the opposite and really follow intuition and do what makes a person happy.
Overall, I think individuality in something a person can thrive on, and this quality I think begins when were teenagers trying to find out who we want to be. There are many different qualities a person can have to make them individual, that why I close the song with the word "different", in other languages.

Final Song Relfection

When I had finally finished my English Song project, the dominant feeling I had was relief. Although I had began the project with the mentality that creating lyrics to a song and then singing it would be simple- as I went step by step through the process, things only got more complicated. Creating lyrics I found to be one of the best parts to the assignment because I was able to write in a style I wasn’t used to while voicing my opinion on something I found important (individuality). Performing these lyrics to music was a whole other obstacle. Since my friends and I don’t have the best voices, we decided to sing in a group and match it to a beat I would later create on garageband. Volume levels, and making a instrumental to fit singing was quit difficult and consumed a lot of my time, so when the song with not so great vocals and an okay lyrical match, came out I was pretty much pleased with it. Creating the movie (by grabbing images off of the internet) was pretty easy and downloading my song to imovie was a breeze. Putting it on my blog however, was a different story.
When everything was said and done, I overcame my little nerves and presented the song to the class- I was pretty proud of the overall results, and didn’t care so much about my bad vocals anymore. The project lead me to appreciate the music industry and any artist that can actually create an okay sounding song with a deeper meaning, and I also learned more about myself and what I think is important enough in the world to spend more then 4 hours creating a song about.