It's Only Life
It's Only Life
When I was 14 years old, we lost our home. I don’t know how long it was before it happened that my parents knew it was going to happen, but for me I never saw it coming. It hit me like a ton of bricks. We were suddenly sent scrambling. We never became what one would consider "homeless," as we always had a roof over our head. But the next number of years were ones of constant moving from one apartment or series of rented rooms to the next. We were never in one place again long enough to even get settled in. I never had anyone over to spend the night anymore and I never invited friends over. There was never space anymore for that, and no boundaries. I had left my old neighborhood and old friends behind and didn’t tell anyone what had happened. I was too ashamed. My life as I had known it completely disappeared. It threw me into a severe identity crisis for the rest of high school and beyond. This song and the lyrics are reflection of that time period and of that feeling. “No one can see me, my alibi, only a window to look at the sky.”
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