A Song for You...Now Dance Monkey, dance!

This is a song that Johnathan Cunningham and I wrote one morning on a slow shift.  His sister is about to pursue a career in country music (please contain your laughter, she is actually a very talented singer), and she wanted some songs, so here it is.

"€œLeft Me Behind"

Johnathan Cunningham and J. Martin

 

She wakes up in a bed of lies

And sells a story that no one buys

Lives in a world that she designed

Taking the pieces of other people'€™s lives

She lies about her home and her friends

Says she did things that she never did

Everyone knows it's€™ not true

And they ask her, Why can'€™t you just be you?

 

Chorus

And she says

Cause€™ I'€™m not good enough for me

I'™m so much better

When it’s all make-believe

I want to forget who I was

Where I've been

and what I'€™ve seen

Any life is better than mine

So I left me behind

 

Verse 2

She claims she went to college

but doesn’t have a degree

Says she's from New York

But she grew up in Tennessee

She says her dad'€™s a broker,

But he just lives on a road called Wall St.

And she runs from everything she knows

This isn't the way it was supposed to go

It’s a life she would like to leave behind

And people ask her Why do you lie?

 

Chorus

 

 

Bridge

She tells them that everyone lies

But what they don't realize

Is that she's not just lying to you

She'€™s trying to convince herself too

 

Chorus

I hope you like it.  It is still a work in progress, so any suggestions are welcomed.