When You Love Something (TSOTW 2015-16)

from A Storage Auction in the Form of an Album (Quarantine 2020!) by Amanda Rose Riley

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It took so many hours to finish this song
Maybe one was spent on a bench in a park
Maybe another hunched over a notebook on my bed
And countless more struggling hard with my guitar
But it's all worth it
You can't imagine how it feels when I play music
And this is mine, it came from my heart

When you love something, you know
'Cause you'd do anything to feel that flow
And if it takes 10 hours to have anything to show
Then that's okay 'cause time's never slow
Doing what you love

To date this has been my most consistent skill
Is I could nail a paper in 10 minutes flat
And on my tombstone you could accurately say
She got straight As and she taught us random facts
But that means nothing
I mean it's obvious to me, you just have to trust things
It's what you love, not what comes easy

Because the one thing uniting everyone I find impressive or cool
Is a musical talent above everybody else in the room
Because all I say feels incomplete when said in simple non-musical words
And whenever I have an emotion to express, I always think of music first
Whether I wrote it or not, when sound properties combine to get it right
It sickens with an aching satisfaction like I've never felt in my life

So I'm making a promise to myself
In front of all these witness
That for as long as I live, I can never forget this feeling.

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from A Storage Auction in the Form of an Album (Quarantine 2020!), released March 20, 2020

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Quirky, punk & pop-influenced acoustic singer-songwriter. Equal parts dreamer and doer.

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