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Something from before my 12 month unintentional break from music - more to come...

The Anxious

_PACE

Original song by Julia Yob (piano and vocals), ©2025

"Fly"

LYRICS:

Everybody warned me that the story
Was a cautionary tale
Everybody told me “It’s a warning - of the dangers if you fail!”
But I always thought the most intriguing part of all
Was that moment | Right before the fall~
[mmm]

I learned if you fly to high you’re going
To plummet to the Deep
I learned if you pick the wrong fruit growing,
The sin is one you’ll keep
Deep inside I thought maybe the price was not too high
For a moment – a second to see the sky~
A moment you could FLY!

I think it’s fair to say I’m pretty grounded
My roots were planted deep
All my wildest edges are well-rounded
I’m practically asleep!
Then the whole world SHARPENS with the answering of a call
Feel that moment | right before the fall~
A chance to have it all!

And I don’t care if I fall, I know I could lose it all
But I have to try to try to try to try to fly –
To touch the SKY!
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Everybody warned me that the story
Was a cautionary tale…

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Inspired by the March 2025 Grand Rapids Songwriters Alliance prompt "Fly me to a song..." First recording to test cadence, tempo, key, etc.

I'm tired of being tired
Let me breathe..
Just let me breathe ..
I cannot take it anymore..
Everytime, it's another story,
Another struggle.

Let me breathe,
Just..let me breathe,
I'm tired of being tired,
I'm tired of being tired,
Let me breathe,
Just..let me breathe,
I'm tired of being tired,
I cannot take it anymore..

Waking up, dead
Going to bed, dead
It's a circle that never ends
Why did I choose this?

Sitting on the pavement floor,
Hoping to melt away, like the ice cream being stained away

Walking down the street, struggling to walk
Hoping the wind will carry me away, like birds on vacation 

What is there to live when there is nothing to hope for, nothing to hold onto, nothing to long to. 

Everytime i put my face in the water, I feel myself escaping from drowning.
I cannot even be those who want to die. If u cannot yearn to live, why is it so hard to die.

I feel stuck in this neverending life. It wouldn't let me go but I cannot stay. 

What do you want from me? What do you want me to do?
Your skinning me into corpse please, get it off me.
I cannot shake this off me, like an itch that won't stop.
No matter the hell, It's off me, prosperity is bullshit when there are parts to fix. 

The pain in my chest wouldn't stop beating, why is it there?

Why is breathing so hard for me? 
Everything i inhale, an exhale comes instead.

Let me breathe,
Just..let me breathe,
I'm tired of being tired,
I'm tired of being tired,
Let me breathe,
Just..let me breathe,
I'm tired of being tired,
I cannot take it anymore...

Put me in a casket so I can sleep peacefully, like 2 birds on their honeymoon.

Let me experience warmth without fear, without breathing too fast.

Let me close my eyes without the nightmares, let them become my daydreams. 

Allow me to breathe once more,
Let me feel nostalgia, before the ravens come get me (and now it's coming)
(and now it's coming)
(and now it's coming)
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(Outro)
Let me breathe...
Let me breathe, Just..let me breathe, (I'm tired of being tired) Just..let me breathe,
(I'm tired of being tired)

Let me breathe...
Let me breathe, Just..let me breathe (I'm tired of being tired) Just..let me breathe,
(I'm tired of being tired), (let me breathe)
(I'm tired of being tired), (let me breathe)...

let me breathe

Original song by Julia Yob (vocals, ukelele, synth strings), ©2025

"I * You"

LYRICS:

It's been two decades since I climbed my first canyon-top
Still remember that feeling
Making it up there and looking out - my heart seemed to STOP
And my senses were reeling.

I still don't have the words for what it was like
Climbing higher than birds! Kind of like-

Looking at you moments after you smile
I'm not quite breathing right; pulse a five-minute mile
And my head's filled with static, the words are all gone
This unnameable feeling
The last thing from wrong.

I was a child the first time I saw the Northern Lights,
One cold Michigan midnight.
Wrapped up in blankets, the sky danced with ribbons of white
It was darkness in light, and I
Still can't really say
How exactly I changed after that day, but it's kind of like-

Op'ning my phone to a message from you
That you signed with a heart emoji ❤️ and I'm blue
In the FACE, 'cause my lungs, they forgot how to breathe
This unnameable feeling
I can't quite believe that I **** ***

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Inspired by the October 2025 Grand Rapids Songwriters Alliance prompt to "write a love song without using the word LOVE." Cheers! 💌

I * You

Secrets aren't shared so you can't fail
But this is how you abused it (abused it)
There are miracles so please  don't ignore it (ignore it)
But this is how you made it?

Into the smokes of foggy lies, 
you would deny it (deny it)
Your silence is louder but 
you can't hear it (hear it)
Through your words, you screamed 
"I should bear it" (bear it)
How can I bear it? 
(Like really, how)

Blocked by sight, 
mirrors painted,
Parted by light, 
ceilings jointed 
How can I actually tame it?

(I don't hear you calling it, 
so say it, SAY IT! SAY IT!)

You forced me to do it, 
You cannot deny it so 
"I used it, I used it, 
until I abused it..."
It pained me to see it, 
but I cannot refuse it, instead

"I used it, I used it, until I abused it.."
"I used it, I used it, until I abused it.."
"I used it, I used it, until I abused it.." I SAID!
"I USED IT, I USED IT, UNTIL I ABUSED IT!"

Penny? Sally? Margaret? Josh? (WHO,HIM?!) 
They damn people 
that made you hush! 
For what?! 
(Honestly I really don't know)
Cuz you cannot lay 
with an average? (oh...)

But...

Was I an average or a leverage for your 
mediocre coverage 
I digress, making time for your pain is a sentencing since hearing isn't your specialty

(I know you are going through alot...
I don't know about saying that about his....)

Then fucking say it, 
SAY IT!

You forced me to do it, 
u cannot deny it so 
"I used it, I used it, until I abused it..."
It pained me to see it, 
but I cannot refuse it, instead

"I used it, I used it, until I abused it.."
"I used it, I used it, until I abused it.."I SAID!
"I USED IT, I USED IT, UNTIL I ABUSED IT!!"

AGAIN!

"I USED IT, I USED IT, UNTIL I ABUSED IT!"

ABUSED IT

Sitting in borough

Pills in my eyes, fatal sleep, 
sinking and sweep. 
Where are the joy? 
Laughters in the air? 
Yeah, sounds like pure
Cover me in dust, 
pain in my eyes, 
beaming sun, 
made of their lives

Sitting in borough
(Summertime, Summertime)
Sitting in borough
(Summertime, Summertime)
Sitting in borough 
(Summertime, Summertime)
(Summertime, Summertime) in borough 
(Summertime, Summertime) in borough 
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(TO BE CONTINUED)


sitting in borough (summertime)

Written by Gianna Stansell, Kathiryn Werlinich, Jeff Oxford
Produced by Frank Slimm

Verse 1:
I don’t feel pretty I feel gorgeous, I mean look at me you can’t forge this
And when you try to hit my line I press decline every time

Verse 2:
I don’t go stupid I go crazy, it’s anecdotal just what they say
Believe the story, be naïve, I’ll tell you something that you best believe

Pre-Chorus 1:
You think I could be played, boy ask me what’s my name
Oh gee that’s what I’ve been, I am not your friend never yours again

Chorus:
No no no no never trip, No no no no never trip
If you ask me it’s the money that I’m with
I don’t need no validation never trip about a dude (never trip about a dude)

Verse 3:
If I got a goal I’m on a mission, just a pretty female with ambition
I got things to say, stuff to do, that's why I’d never trip about a dude

Verse 4:
I'm done with all the crazy going viral, not getting twisted with my mind up in a spiral
If fame's a minute I'm an hour, it's my utility and I got all the power

Pre-Chorus 2:
I'm not here watchin' you, I check myself and I got better things to do
I lose myself inside a mirror, not over you
it's what I said I never trip about a dude

REPEAT CHORUS

Verse 5:
Nobody's making money on the niceness, know what I'm worth and I am priceless
Yeah I got an attitude, but at least I know I’lI never trip about a dude

Bridge:
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey…..sorry what did you say?
Better believe I’m not just for entertainment
Must be out of your mind go get a brain then
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey…..why you always gotta be that way
You should respect me but you gotta make it worse when
You mess with my head insteada treat me like a person

REPEAT CHORUS

Dude

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sitting in borough (summertime)

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