Hazy Skies
© 2025 R3Zondo

woke up with a storm behind my eyes
thoughts like thunder rollin’ through the quiet
tried to piece myself together blind
feeling more lost than I let outside

left the radio on too loud
just to drown the screaming doubt
everyone says, “you’ll be fine”
but I’m lost somewhere between the lines

hazy skies inside my head
drifting far from where I’ve been
every thought a smokey thread
tangled up and wearing thin
can’t see the stars through this fog of mine
but I keep walking
one breath at a time

laughed too loud just to feel real
but silence knows the things I steal
from myself in the midnight hour
when hope wilts like a dying flower

phone lights up, but I let it fade
can’t explain the mess I’ve made
people talk, I nod and lie
but the fog rolls in behind my eyes

hazy skies inside my head
drifting far from where I’ve been
every thought a smokey thread
tangled up and wearing thin
can’t see the stars through this fog of mine
but I keep walking
one breath at a time

if healing’s slow, let it crawl
if I break, I’ll still stand tall
even clouds must cry to clear
even haze must disappear

hazy skies, still I rise
past the blur and warning signs
I may forget the reasons why
but I remember how to try
can’t see the sun but I feel the shine
and I keep walking
one breath at a time

(Summary)

Hazy Skies, is about living inside a foggy mind, the kind of days where nothing feels clear and everything weighs heavy. I wrote this to capture the quiet chaos of trying to function while you’re mentally and emotionally drained. It’s about pushing through that internal storm, even if you can’t see the way forward. One breath, one step at a time. This one’s a soft whisper for anyone who feels like they’re barely holding it together, but still holding on.

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Hazy Skies

🎶 From Cassette Tapes to Creating My Own Sound 🎶

When I was a kid, music was more than background noise, it was my escape, my teacher, and my first real love. I’d sit with two cassette players, playing the Beatles on one and singing into the other, trying my best to match artists like Paul McCartney or Barbara Streisand’s range (sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much) 🤣. Homework could wait, lyrics in my wide rule notebooks couldn’t.

Life took me through winding roads, retail, hospitality, consulting, caregiving, but music never stopped calling. 45 years later, after many personal losses, and loosing one of my sons last year, I turned back to songwriting as therapy. Inspiration is all around me. Every song I create starts with raw lyrics, usually scribbled in one shot as I choreograph in my mind, then evolves into a fully produced track through hours of refining vocal coding,  instrumentation, and feel. I blend personal stories with AI driven music tools, letting technology and emotion work together to capture what I hear and see in my head and heart.

Now, I’m finally sharing it. Not perfect, not polished to death, just real. This is me, finally putting the music out there for you to hear.
Peace & Love ❤️ 


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