Here I Am Now

3 weeks ago by @deadhead

Liner Notes

This song is for the #CommentsFirst challenge (https://write.fawm.org/forums/3025). It doesn't exist yet. It will be written based on the first few comments it receives. Please leave a comment below!

Only comments about lyrics please! I want to try a lyrics challenge and then I'll toss whatever music comes to mind on it just to round out the tune.

Thanks @tezzin, @katestantonsings, @thinkalto, @nadine and @axl for the challenge! It was fun collection of thematical and technical, and they all worked well together.

This song is a true story of my wife's career. Except I asked what she wished she could have said to her old boss, not what she actually said. I got the line "you're the bar I hold me to and baby that bar's in hell". From there it was a pretty straight forward to put the rest of the song in place.

The journey goes from work place of hell, to finally breaking free and finding a new job where it's not only a much better environment but one where she's a lead and can foster a much better environment for all the other employees there.

The style of the song is loosely based on Halestorm which is a favourite of my wife. I started to go all out on production before realizing it was FAWM so it's a bit half baked in parts haha.

#punk #work-probs

Lyrics

Here I am now
Waiting for your call
Just to throw out all I have
Eat abuse and deal with it all

You can play your role
But you never earned your place
Put up there by those in charge
But your rotting throne's a disgrace

Isn't it irresponsible
Micromanaging miserable me

Here I am now
Trapped in here with your fucking attitude
You're the bar I hold to
And baby that bar is in hell

Here I am now

Gettin' away from you
I lit that fire so damn high
It burned from bridge to sky

I needed a reset
Gotta treat myself well
Find a place with more respect
One with good personnel

Getting great geniality
Uninhibited under ugly

Here I am now
Broke away from your fucking attitude
I've raised the bar too damn high
For you to shoot it down

Here I am now
Taking charge to set a good attitude
Raise the bar for us to hold ourselves to
Here I am now

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