Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

These are lyrics that I wrote to a song back in 2011. I think it's pretty self explanatory so I won't go into much explanation about it. Honestly, I mostly just remember being really sad when I wrote it. I always just heard the sound of the acoustic guitar being the only instrument to support the song. Hopefully someday I can make this song come fully to life. For now, here are the lyrics: Band-aid Smiles I smile everyday & everyone sees it It doesn’t have to be genuine to be pleasing Cuts & wounds can never be seen Is it faking if you pretend it’s a dream? Band-aid smiles We’ve all had them The world is cold so we have to grab them Blanket dreams Are now all nightmares Teddy bears & sugar canes are no longer here That little girl with the ribbons in her hair It was so black & white Now there’s color everywhere The red is so blinding & the pink is too sweet I’m hoping...

This is a song that I wrote almost a year ago while I was sitting in my History of Rock Music class at SUNY Oneonta. To this day I think it's one of the most honest things I've ever written. Although times and feelings have changed since then, I felt like it was something still worth sharing. I thought of the title "Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue" because I was tired of how we constantly hold our tongue because we're afraid of what others may think instead of pouring our hearts out honestly. Another title for this song could have been "Honesty". Why did you let her walk alone? How was she to know she wasn't on her own? No one ever told her that she was more than enough So she never even knew mattered Someone should've told her that it wasn't that bad Someone should've told her that's not all she had And if someone told her that she was beautiful Maybe she'd still be here Do you know how hard it is to feel ...