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Okay, after working with the lyrics for a few days and working on the tune, I had to add a refrain to the song.
Here is the updated version so far, and I am working out the music now.

Always Leaving

Thought that loving her would be enough to make her stay
Tried everything I could think of to make it all okay
But she just never let me in
Laying here beside her – I’m losing her again

She was my world, my life, the night sky
When she walked out the door, man did I cry
Told me she wanted her freedom
Couldn’t believe she’d look for it with him

CHORUS:
Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything?
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

Walking around like a broken man
Hurting so bad, doing the best that I can
How could my angel fall down from the sky?
How could she turn on me overnight?

CHORUS:
Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything?
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

Didn’t see it coming; her walking away
Guess I’m just a fool for believing that she’d stay
I could never shake the feeling that I didn’t have her heart
Looking back, I didn’t stand a chance right from the start

CHORUS:
Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything?
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

REFRAIN:
So I’m walkin around making like everything’s ok
Doing everything I can think of to make her pay
Still don’t change a thing…
She ain’t coming back this way…

So tell me…
How I’m supposed to live
When you were my everything?
Tell me what I’m supposed to do
Now that you’re never coming back again
Tell me how do you catch… the wind?

(c) Aug 2009 Pauline Lee et al

It’s been one of those nights when the rain seems to be washing away some of the old hurts that I’ve been carrying around.
I was listening to Rascal Flatts tonight – and there’s just something about the music they write that always makes me spring a leak – guess I needed a good cry.
This is one of the main reasons I love country music. Out of any genre, it is country music that consistently has a way of speaking to my heart and moving me to tears.

It felt like a night of goodbye’s.

Sometimes we hold onto things, to people so tight and can’t seem to let them go.
And when they leave, it can tear your whole world apart. It can hurt so badly that we want to tear their world up as badly as they tore ours up.
That’s sometimes how life goes, but in the end, time heals all wounds if you want it to.
Sometimes we want to hang on to all the hurts just so that we can keep hiding from life and justify not letting anyone in again.
God gives us these moments to learn about love. You can’t know how great something is if you never know its opposite.
I believe that hearts are broken NOT to break you down, but to break you open.

So tonight, I wrote these new lyrics for a song called Always Leaving.

It’s dedicated to an old friend:
“I know you tried everything, it’s just that she was always leaving, even if you didn’t know it, even if she didn’t know it, that’s just how it is when you’re in love with someone who was always leaving. There’s no rhyme or reason, it was just two people who were equally broken trying to find their way. I know you’ll find your way. I’ll let them know up ahead, to light the way.”

Always Leaving

Thought that loving her would be enough to make her stay
Tried everything I could think of to make it all okay
But she just never let me in
Laying there beside her – I’m losing her again

She was my world, my life, the night sky
When she walked out the door, man did I cry
Told me she wanted her freedom
Couldn’t believe she’d look for it with him

CHORUS:
Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

Walking around like a broken man
Hurting so bad, doing the best that I can
How could my angel fall down from the sky?
How could she turn on me overnight?

CHORUS:
Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

Didn’t see it coming; her walking away
Guess I’m just a fool for believing she’d stay
I could never shake the feeling that I didn’t have her heart
Looking back, I didn’t stand a chance from the start

Tell me how I’m supposed to live
When she was my everything
Tell me how to catch someone
When she’s always leaving
Tell me, how do you catch the wind?

© August 2009 Pauline Lee et al

God Bless <3 <3 <3,
P