Proud.

This song, originally written for Song Fight (www.songfight.org), came at a time when I was toying with a few ideas. I wanted to work with alternate guitar tuning; I was enamored with the internal rhyming in Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters songs; and for all my progress, I was feeling like my work as a musician wasn't going anywhere. This song is about rediscovering what music is to me. The Onward To Yesterday album takes its name from this track.


Proud

Onward to yesterday
A backlog of dues to pay
You're told to be proud
For holding it down
Making the best of it
Faking the rest of it
Review and replay
The last wasted day

Then you rise in the light of her eyes
And you find this is why you're alive

Blaze your undrafted path
Brace for the aftermath
That threatens your lives
And never arrives
Facing obscurity
Chasing eternity
You're told to be proud
For waiting it out

Then you rise in the light of her eyes
And you find this is why you're alive

(instr.)

Will you rise in the light of her eyes
When you find this is why you're alive


This song (and all the others on Onward To Yesterday) can be heard on the music player to the right.