Just trying to draw emotion from and into song... from forthcoming 2022/2023 album Passive Persistence.

Just A Shell Of Me
-------------------

What's going on with my relationships
What's going on inside my head
Am I not saying what I'm meaning
Are you not hearing what I've said

I'm getting to the point of giving up
It seems to always end the same
Against the odds always the bad guy
If I just lose why play the game

Now you've gone away
We can't go back
To the way things used to be
And so I face another day
A lesser man
Just a shell of me

I wish you could have seen my thought clouds
I think they might have helped a lot
They would have let you know I loved you
When all my clumsy words did not

I'm beside myself
With no one here to hold me
No one I can blame
Beside myself

Just A Shell Of Me

Music life of almosts:

-almost signed to a label out of NYC
-almost scored producer in NYC
-almost got my band's video on MTV Basement Tapes back when MTV was a thing
-almost placed a couple of songs with major artists thru NYC Pitch-A-Pro sessions
-almost scored with producers on Nashville shopping trips
-several honorable mentions in Billboard Songwriting Contests
-Honorable Mention in Musician Unsigned Band Contest.

Just A Shell Of Me

DJRalphieJJ