leanna firestone - an introverts guide

Track 6 of "Mic Check, Please!", a "Check, Please!" inspired EP!

Fun fact: this is my favorite song in this project, as well as one of my favorite songs I've written so far! :)

Song art by https://karin848.tumblr.com/  
Mixing/backing vocals by @alecferris 
Read the comic this was inspired by here!: www.checkpleasecomic.com/comic/01-01-01

Mic Check, Please!

matters to me

down (original)- Dodie Clark

Paint - Dodie Clark (doddleoddle) Original Song

beanz - dodie clark

cover of talking in code by margot and the nuclear so and so's 

lyrics:
I gotta go, and you're talking in code 
Saying I know where you've been and I know where you go
But I've been tired from the minute I woke
I stopped listening the moment you spoke
And said I'm long gone
Yeah, I'm long gone
And I'm sleeping alone 
In a house I don't own 
'Cause if you're touring your mind 
You'll get lost every time 
You'll sing me sad songs to keep me awake 
In that bedroom where we hid away 
Baby, I'm long gone
Yeah, I'm long gone
And your voice cracks like a piano
You keep moving
But where are you going? 
Baby, we're long gone 
Yeah, we're long gone

talking in code

requiem from dear Evan Hansen told in Connors perspective not a cut song but it was written by the people that wrote dear Evan Hansen(Justin Paul and Benj Pasek)and sung by Antonio Cipriano

Antonio Cipriano - Requiem (Connors perspective)

i could write pages about why i wrote this song and what the lyrics mean but i won't because that's boring. this song is essentially me spilling some secrets that eat away at me sometimes. like the line about not having been kissed.  i'm 17 and it makes me sad that i graduate in a month and no one has ever liked me enough to kiss me, or those that have, i haven't liked back. which sometimes makes me wonder what's wrong with me or why my timing is so off or what i could've done different. sometimes i think the reason why boys don't like me is because i haven't figured out how to like myself- and sometimes i'm not sure i ever will. SO if what they say is true- "you can't love someone else until you love yourself" then I'm gonna be alone forever. probably.

lyrics: 
still haven't had my first kiss
starting to think i never will
i've got too much mass, with too much gravity
too many holes in the heart inside of me 
no one is willing to fill

no boy i've loved has loved me back
or they have but not like... that
i'm all great and i'm all good and then they leave like i knew they would
taking parts of me i can't get back

so if what they say is true,
and you can't love someone else till you love you 
then i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever 
probably

sometimes i think my timings off
or there's something wrong with me 
heart so big with walls so high 
that i built up to hide behind cause i'm so scared of
truly being seen

so if what they say is true,
that you can't love someone else till you love you 
then i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever 
probably

and i'd like to believe that there is someone out there for me
and he is kind and strong and he's been waiting for someone
like me to come along

but 
what they say is true,
you can't love someone else till you love you 
so i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever
i'm gonna be alone forever 
probably

Alone Forever (probably)

i wrote this song because most all of my interactions with boys that i like/ i want to like me after sophomore year, have just been them liking me past a certain point in the day. like they like me only when they are in bed and bored and want to see me in a bra or something, but they don't like ME, ya know? or if they do like ME, they are really bad at balancing love and lust for me to where it just reads as the latter. and sometimes that makes me sad. 

lyrics: 
i am the type of girl boys only love at night
asked more about the color of my underwear than my eyes

"what are you wearing? i wanna see"
am i only beautiful after 10:15? 
when you're laid in your bed
and i am in mine

i guess i am just the type of girl boys only love at night

10:15 pm (Interlude)

A song hoping if something were different about me or him... that we would be together.

lyrics: 
if things were different, and we weren't a year apart
if things were different, and i loved with my head instead of my heart
if things were different, i wonder how they'd be 
and i wonder i there'd be a you and me

if things were different, and i wasn't moving away this fall
if things were different, maybe things wouldn't be different at all
if things were different, i like to believe
that there would be a you and me

if things were different, and i'd've met you first
if things were different, and she looked like me or i looked like her
if things were different, i wonder how they'd be 
and i wonder i there'd be a you and me

If Things Were Different

you ever love someone so much that even though they won't be seen publicly with you- you can't find the strength to leave them?

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Hey! My name is Leanna Firestone! It's kind of unbelievable that I'm writing a bio for myself right now; I don't really feel important enough to need one. But- in case I am to you, Here's some information about me: I'm freshly 20, I'm a recent college dropout, and I write and sing songs.   In 2020, the worst year of everyone's collective consciousness, I started making TikToks. At first, I was just talking about anime... but eventually I started singing, which is my passion, end game, and dream job. (I know, the lamest origin story ever.) But from these TikToks, I started to release music and things inevitably snowballed and people started to really care about me and my music. Because of this support, I was able to live my dream. My greatest musical achievements to date are: my song Strawberry Mentos reaching 5M streams, Least Favorite Only Child reaching 4M streams, my EP, "Y/N" peaking at #8 on the US singer-songwriter iTunes Charts, having a song of mine play while two people made out during an episode of Love Island UK, and getting 2nd place in my 8th grade talent show with my song "Stars".   Most notably though, I put out my debut EP "Y/N" (pronounced Your Name) and launched my first round of merchandise. And next on the horizon is a debut album, coming in 2022.

talking in code

Leanna Firestone

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