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Album Release T-Minus 3 weekS! 

5/16/2015

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I can’t believe it.   We are down to three weeks to go until the Breaking Forward album release!   The album arrived a few days ago and it still feels a little surreal!   I can't wait to finally share it with world.

The stories I share today are about two of the quieter songs on the album.   The funny story about the first one is that I was challenged by my guitar teacher Jacob Sweet (who later became my co-producer) to write a song on guitar.  He gave me 4-5 chords to choose from and said I had to come back one week later with a song!  So I sat down with my guitar and the emotions of the moment and story I was going through at the time came out…and In the Meanwhile was born.

The second song, Stillness, takes the album to a raw and vulnerable place. I was going through a very challenging period in my life where my thoughts, fears and doubts were holding me back and I found peace and comfort in the quieting of my mind and meditation.  Since then I make it a daily practice to breathe, slow the mind down and try to stay centered.  Some days it is easier than others to stay still, but this song is a good reminder to continue to strive for that kind of peace and serenity every day. 

In the Meanwhile
Music and Lyrics by Natalie Myre

I lie awake next to you
Thinking about the reasons why
I understand what you’re going through
Which is why I have to try

We don’t make sense
I know it won’t work
But I can’t leave this fence

Over and over it starts
You keep finding ways to my heart
I can’t seem to see us apart
So in the meanwhile it’s you

I say things you don’t understand
You just listen and smile
You talk about your big bold plans
And I just watch you for a while

I wish we made sense
I wish we could work
So I could leave this fence

And time and again it begins
Our love for each other can’t win
I’ll only be free without him
But in the meanwhile you’ll do

Am I supposed to live alone while I wait
Keep on making this mistake
I don’t know

But in the meanwhile
In the meanwhile


Stillness
Music and Lyrics by Natalie Myre

I sit here listening to the sound of the rain as the tears run down my face
I don’t know how or why I feel all this pain it comes and goes without a trace
I can’t sleep and I can’t see why all these thoughts are haunting me
Do the answers lie in the stillness of my mind

Where the rhythm of my thoughts start to slow
A space I can’t explain where everything starts to flow
I hear the rush of the wind the sound of the rain the beat of my heart
I just can’t explain everything slowing to a halt

These jumbled images keep floating through my mind resisting all the hope I see
Searching for the things I pray I will find but the doubt and fear just strangle me
And quietly I feel the peace I’ve always known was in my reach
Do the answers lie in the stillness?

Where the walls that held me back crumble down
The conversations stop and a presence in me is found
I hear the rush of the wind the sound of the rain the beat of my heart
I’m finally free

I just don’t want to miss it slow down every moment and feel and feel
The stillness.  Stillness.  Stillness. 

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