Hi all!
My name is Christine, I am a singer/songwriter, and I have a kickstarter to help fund the instrumentation and professional recording of my first original songs! I have already reached 72% of my goal and only need $53 now to reach full funding, so please help out and share or back my project if you like my sound or my lyrics and want to help me make my music happen!
For now, I have started asking viewers and backers to vote on which song I should record with my kickstarter pledges, It would be great if forum people could help out and share their opinions!
Backers' votes count twice (so if you really like a song, even backing $1 would help greatly!) and everyone else counts once. You can vote by leaving a comment on my project with the name of the song you like.
I am leaving the kickstarter link here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19 ... y-originalBut I will also include the lyrics and links to the song options! Let me know your thoughts, comment, and pledge away! Thanks so much!
True Life(the song in my kickstarter video, and linked here:
https://soundcloud.com/christinepetitmu ... e-original)
You say I found you the words that you never could say
You didn’t know how to breathe but you breathed anyway
You said that I was the light that you never could see
You don’t believe in God, but you believe in me
Others picked at my petals and then tossed them aside
But you, you watered my roots and sang a lullaby
You’re my
True Life
But you don’t hide
You stay the night
You show me sun in the sky on my darkest days
I showed you what’s underneath and you begged me to stay
You promise every day that I won’t be alone
We used our broken pieces to build our new home
No need for lingerie
You take the scars and the pain
You take the words to my songs
And sing them all night long
You’re my
True Life
But you don’t hide
You stay the night
You know
My whole soul
But you don’t go
You make it wholeYour SongAnd I could write a song for every boy who ever let me down
And sing a tune for all the times my heart’s been messed around
And hide away forever just to run from all the pain
Till the burning desire hits me and I’m right back at it again
But for some reason I believe that this is something real
And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel
But something tells me this is right like nothing else before
So fuck the others, here I go
It’s you I’m falling for
I’ve said the same about the ones who never seemed to last
But this is here and now and all of that is in the past
At times my insecurities threaten my faith in you
You squash them every single time, and I love the way you do
Cause just for some reason I believe that this is something real
And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel
But something tells me this is right like nothing else before
So fuck the others, here I go It’s you I’ve fallen for
So please be patient with my heart
Cause it’s crumbled up before
And don’t be scared if I hide
Or start running for the door
I’ve made mistakes, and I’ve failed
And it’s still hard to understand
That you could love me like you do
So I put my faith in you
Cause just for some reason I believe that this is something real
And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel
But something tells me this is right and that my doubts are wrong
So fuck the others, here I go It’s here that I belongMemories DecayedYou are the fragile line
Between who I’ve become and where I’ve been
And now you’re fading away
You are the truth I never had
You were never really there
You just let me slip away
And you’re a decaying slice of memory
I can’t feel you anymore
I can’t remember what it’s like
To want you more than ever
I’m not broken up again
I’m just leaving you behind
You never were enough for me
And now I’m gone forever
Your cowardice had only just begun
To break its way through me
To suck out the life within
Your words are weapons and fire
That command you from the core
To live and die alone
And you’re a decaying slice of memory
I can’t feel you anymore
I can’t remember what it’s like
To want you more than ever
I’m not broken up again
I’m just leaving you behind
You never were enough for me
And now I’m gone forever
The way you move It feels like a dream
A dream I once had that’s moved so far from memory
Would it have been so hard
To just let me go
Without tearing me apart
And you’re a decaying slice of memory
I can’t feel you anymore
I can’t remember what it’s like
To want you more than ever
I’m not broken up again
I’m just leaving you behind
You never were enough for me
And now I’m gone foreverI Am The Light(crappy acapella recording here:
https://soundcloud.com/christinepetitmu ... t-original)
When the sunset speaks to the clock on the wall
I will clench my knees and brace for the fall
I won’t clench my teeth and hold back my song
The only chorus I know: I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
And these eyes…have seen the pain of this life
And these ears…have heard cries in the night
And these feet…are calloused, scarred and destroyed
And these hands…aren’t slipping uncoiled
And these tired arms aren’t coming undone
And this sullen mind is not the only one
And this broken body will walk on as it goes
To our only song: I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’ll read a letter that God forgot to send
Put my neck to the stone and die for my own sins
I will continue to fight for the unknown fight
I am the darkness and I am the light
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’ll be the spark that lights this world on fire
Throwing firecrackers on Satan’s funeral pyre
Nothing is bad and nothing is good
Only this truth that you’d sing if you could
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my own
I’m not on my ownAnd Finally,
Darkest CornersI build my home in your darkest corners
I find my solace in your most broken pieces
I find my strength in your moments of weakness
And I find my weakness in the strands of your eyes
So I’ll take you home
Wipe off your eyes
I just need to make you feel okay
And I don’t know why
I’ll mess up your hair
Hold you all night
But I’m never gonna learn to fly
When I’m by your side
I want to save you more than you can imagine
But I can’t imagine what it’s like to be saved
There’s no room for me in your haunted memories
But I can’t bear to leave you even though I’ve tried
So I’ll hear you scream
And walk home alone
I need to keep you running back
More than you know
And I’ll pull you close
Tell you it’s just fine
But I’m never gonna run away
If I keep begging you to stay