It has been an incredible privilege to be able to create music that inspires others to heal and live a healthy lifestyle. I wrote this song for everyone who has ever suffered through insecurities, eating disorders, and/or body dysmorphia. You are beautiful inside and out. 

If you are struggling, please don't suffer in silence. Asking for help is the first step in healing.

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Perfectly Imperfect - Anna Abernathy

posthumously, self-identified as 'dad-rock'

I Know The Road

In memory of my late mother Julie Corley

Lyrics:
Driving around Florida
Blaring Boston in the jeep
Swimming with the dolphins
So happy I couldn’t sleep

Life seemed pretty perfect but it wasn’t
That was fake
You were drowning out your sorrows you couldn’t handle all the pain
couldn’t hold my head above water but I still loved being your daughter 

Just a little kid back then I’m a grown woman now 
Can’t believe that your gone
I have to get by somehow
Thought I was dying when I finally got the call
They told me when your heart stopped and I thought I lost it all

All our future plans swept away in the Pensacola waters

Mama I promise
I’ll clean the mess you left behind
Can I be honest
The past made me go so blind
I was focused on the pain never on your change
Even though you’re not here with me
You’ll always be the jewel of the sea

Bet your driving up in heaven
Our old dogs in the backseat
As well as all our babies
that we never got to meet

Or are you sailing on the open sea
Until it’s my time and you’re greeting me 
I know you loved your boating 
are you finally at peace

I don’t think I’ll ever be I can hardly breathe

Mama I promise
I’ll clean the mess you left behind
Can I be honest
The past made me go so blind
I was focused on the pain never on your change
Even though you’re not here with me
You’ll always be the jewel of the sea

I really wish you could see
All that’s happening for me
So many dreams are coming true
Completely out of the blue
I wonder if you’d still be proud of me
We’re Leaving California heading off to Nashvile Tennessee
Oh Tennessee

Jewel Of The Sea - Anna Abernathy - Mastered 04.02.23

Anna Abernathy

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