May Songwriting Challenge- Day 24: Been Up To

Like I said with the last post…struggle bus! I’ve always been a quality over quantity writer, so this challenge, with posts like this, has really stressed me out. I mean, some ideas just sound a lot better than they turn out to be. I started this one determined not to make it a vengeful ex-girlfriend type of song…but that’s really where I wanted to go with it. So I forced myself to dial it down and just write a reminiscent ballad. I don’t like it…but I’m behind so I’m posting it in an attempt to get all caught up.

Been Up To

© Chelsey Sears 2018

V1:

Went back home for a long weekend

Visit family, hang with friends

Met a few out at a local haunt

Darts, pool and glory days

‘Til that too familiar face

Emerged from the neon

PCH:

Talked about the changes that he’d made in his life

Then asked where I’d been all this time

CH:

I took a long trip, to the west coast

Made some stops along the road

To breath it in, and let it loose

Learned to weather hurricanes

By simply dancing in the rain

That there’s no storm I can’t pull through

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to

V2:

Shot me a hopeful glance

Asked if there’d still be a chance

To salvage something, give it a shot

But we’d been down that rocky path

Too many times, always to land

In the mud, with broken hearts

PCH:

Told him that I really wished him well

But the best thing he did was let me go, that’s when I found myself

CH:

In a stuffed suitcase on momma’s porch

With the whole world at my door

Set out like I had everything to prove

Making all these crazy dreams

A crazier reality

So hard believing they came true

That’s what I’ve been up to

/Instrumental Bridge/

CH:

I took a long trip, to the west coast

Made some stops along the road

To breath it in, and let it loose

Learned to weather hurricanes

By simply dancing in the rain

That there’s no storm I can’t pull through

CH:

A stuffed suitcase on momma’s porch

With the whole world at my door

Set out like I had everything to prove

Making all these crazy dreams

A crazier reality

So hard believing they came true

That’s what I’ve been up to

CH:

Kissed a stranger on New Year’s Eve

Went swimming on a nude beach

Partied down the river in an inner tube

Learned I’m not one to settle down

So I spread my wings to fly around

See it all from a bird’s eye view

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to