Name: My Dignity by Ora Belle
Duration: 4 min 41 s
Description: Lyrics © 2025 Ora Belle. All rights reserved.

That song resonated so much. It touched my heart and soul. The end lyrics though, never not say your not going to choose love again, it comes around when that one moment clicks that what we missed once twice maybe 3 times, never give up the opportunity to love again.

Not Meant To Be

[Verse]
There were times you taught me grace
how to lead without leaving a scoff
hands so soft they could set me free
teaching me how it’s just meant to be

[Verse 2]
You showed me how to stay near
without drowning in fear
that not every crack is calling for glue
some things are stronger when left askew

[Chorus]
As it was meant to be
you said let it breathe
don’t look for a hand
not every moment needs to be held
sometimes freedom is where love is spelled

[Verse 3]
How you rewrote my heart
to ease the grip release the strain
you whispered there is beauty in what is given
and healing comes when we take a chance

[Bridge]
So I learned to step
then stop
balance life
and let it drop
not every rhythm needs a beat
some melodies play best broken

[Chorus]
As it was meant to be
you said let it breathe
don’t look for a hand
not every moment needs to be held
sometimes freedom is where love is spelled

Not Meant To Be

My Dignity

💜🧡
Drowned Lovers
[poem]

We carried the ocean
between us
love spilling from our wrists
too vast
too fragile
too little shore

I reached
but you had already
turned to tide

And now
we carry an ocean
between us

Drowned Lovers

Here my friends is the Re-Master of one of my most popular Contemporary Classical Piano Improvs.

In it, i seek to describe a life-experience that elicited feelings more intense than happiness, or even Joy; like the inexplicable emotions felt at the birth of one's first child; or... by reason of one of those deeply transformational experiences that enlighten us forever.

An impossible thing perhaps.

However... my dear Listeners,
Here it is.
And... 'Yes! It's Something Like This'.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 -2025
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 -2025

It's Something Like This *

Embarrassment Saved Me

IMPOSTER SYNDROME by Nova J

[INTRO]
sometimes I feel like
(I feel like)
I’m just a shadow
hiding in the light
(I’m an imposter)
like I woke up
in someone else’s life

[HOOK]
(mm mm ahh ahh ohh ohh)
run wild, run free, run for your life!
(mm mm mm ahh ohh )
imposter

[INSTRUMENTAL]

[VERSE 1 ]
slip inside
wear the calm
smile like it fits
eyes scan the air
for who I’m meant to be
words arrive
but meaning hesitates
at the edge of disbelief

[PRE CHORUS]
two selves drifting
in the same breath
torn between
Life and death

[CHORUS]
sometimes I feel like
(I’m barely here)
I’m barely here
(I’m an imposter)
just a shimmer
(fire) in someone else’s atmosphere

[VOCAL HOOK]
(mm mm ahh ahh ohh ohh)
run wild, run free, run for your life!
(mm mm mm ahh ohh )
imposter

[VERSE 2]
the mind wanders
through still light rooms
a version of tomorrow
pulling at the seams
you ask me who I am
I offer silence
frozen 

[PRE CHORUS]
two selves drifting
in the same breath
torn between
life and death 

[BRIDGE]
maybe tension is a signal
maybe unease holds the truth
maybe the mask isn’t false
just unfinished
quietly
becoming 

[FINAL CHORUS]
sometimes I feel like
a thought left unsaid
(I’m the imposter)
but maybe that’s part
of learning to live instead

[OUTRO]
(mm mm ahh ahh ohh ohh)
(mm mm mm ahh ohh )

watcher…
listener…
writer…
seeker…
singer…
sinner….

(mm mm ahh ahh ohh ohh)
(mm mm mm ahh ohh )

Imposter Syndrome

The Feeling Stays

True story: I socialized with a guy in the late 90s who had been in a mid tier rock band (redacted) in the late 70s/early 80s. After the fame, there wasn't any money, and he had a regular everyman job like me. He had great stories, though...
A slow burner blues with a smooth groove.

Lyrics:
I just hate that celebrity bullshit
I can smell it
From a million miles away
That's what he'd say
Right there, at the bar
Having a drink
Or 2
Or 10

A broken-down singer
With too many dreams
A broken-down singer
With too many screams
Up over
A heavy metal (huh!)
Double kick drum
He says: I've been on tour all over the world
I've  been to a lot of places
And I just love every place that I'm from
But, I could use 
A billion dollar blues
Billion dollar blues
A billion dollar blues...

I was restless
And I had stars in my eyes
Dreaming about the magazine covers
And the limousine rides
Having those women at my will
Taking all the cash out of the till
Some nights I  just stay up late
Thinking about it. 
Thinking about what could have been

And......
Then I walk in ...
To a room full of bitter Muses
With bad attitudes
And  short fuses
I could use
A billion dollar blues
Billion dollar blues...

Billion Dollar Blues

LYRIC VIDEO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yukpFvbhX-Y
So ~ I wasn't really intending on writing / recording another new song at the moment since I'm attempting to finish a number of other songs for my current project ~~but This One came to me one day in July & I felt compelled & decided to kind of drop everything  & record it, as I was hearing it as the possible song I may tag on as the Final Song of my new project once it is complete to close it out ~~
Would Love to hear any thoughts on it at all ! :-)
©2025 Donna Dior

THE LAVENDER

Song from the rock opera Five Thousand Sasquatch. A musical comedy about a genius toy inventor who is searching for Bigfoot and UFO's in Bellingham, Washington.

My Dignity

Ora Belle

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