I recently spoke with someone about a relationship that did not work out, because one person cheated on the other. The one who was cheated on so happens to be a musician currently experiencing writer's block. "Writers block at a time like this?!", I thought. I suggested that he pull an Adele or Taylor Swift and write a breakup song. As it is, he writes music and not (typically) lyrics. So I decided to borrow from his experience and write the breakup song I would write if I had found myself in his situation.
This song is a work in progress and will come to life once I have the input and influence of musicians who have actually experienced breakups and cheating and all that jazz.
LYRICS
V1
There I was hoping I could lift your soul the way I thought you lifted mine so high
There I was hoping I could fill your cup the way I thought you filled mine up to overflowing
Little did I know
Did I weigh you down, did I hold you back
Did I drain you ‘till you reached the bottom
No baby that was you
I’d feel the same way too
If my heart was divided, my mind was divided, my time was divided
If I lived with the weight of the secrets you hold and the lies that you told
CHORUS
Did you think I cared to be your burden
Did you think I cared to be a load
No I did not care to be your burden
No I did not care to be a load
Of course I had dreamed that you would carry me
But dreamt I was light as a feather and precious as gold
A treasure to hold
V2
There I was thinking you felt the sun the way thought it warmed me too
As it was shining down so bright on me when I was with you
There I was thinking
Wherever you were next to me the grass was growing so so green
But you were looking on the other side
Yeah was it greener on the other side
CHORUS
V3
I could never be a burden
I could never be a load
I am as light as a feather, I’m precious as gold
And I know that I know, gotta know I’m a treasure to hold
Clearly you didn’t know
‘Cause once you strike gold
Find treasure of your own
You never let go, no you never let go
And no other glittering sparkling thing can ever compare
to the treasure that you call you own
V4
I am as light as a feather, I’m precious as gold
And I know that I know, gotta know I’m a treasure to hold
Too bad you didn’t know
Cause babe you lost me
Outro (4x)
Cause babe you lost me
You’re never gonna get this treasure back