Bound by Fate

I was excited to write a song again because I haven’t written one in a long time. I lost my passion and inspiration after I lost someone from my family, but I am glad I found it again. I wrote this song because I really wanted to tell my story of how I met the only man I have ever truly loved. Plus, my best friend had been pushing me to go back to writing songs, and she had been telling me for a while now to write a song about my love story. I wasn’t sure if I would ever fall in love again because the last man, I was with hurt me so deeply, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to give my heart away again. But that’s when I started my freshman year in college, and I found the man that had now stolen my heart. We both started off as best friends in college but, then we had gone our separate ways. He was a super senior in college and I was a freshman. I was instantly locked on him when I first him, but my heart was still guarded. I was in denial with what I was feeling but I couldn’t, and I knew what it was. I have never fallen that hard for someone before but, something felt just so right about him. I should have told him at the end of that one year how I felt before he left to go to graduate school. But we then were reunited 7 years later, and as we were getting to know each other all over again. I was wondering if I really was falling in love all over again, but I was keeping my heart guarded. But there was just something so magnetic that kept pulling me toward him, and I was listening to my intuition and I just felt safe around him. I kept wondering whether I should tell him how I feel or not; or I could keep asking myself what would happen if I didn’t. But shortly afterwards, we both ended up confessing our true feelings for one another that we both hid from one another after all these years. After being with him for the last couple of years I have learned a lot of lessons which changed both me and him for the better. So, I mostly want to dedicate this song to him and show how much he truly means to me and show how we’ve gotten this far even with just a few bumps in the road that were doable, and that we can weather any storm.

With the whole writing process, I really thought back to some of the most important moments in both of our lives that I really wanted to share. Like what that moment was like when we first met, and how we would always spend a lot out in nature for school and for fun. We would always spend time out on the boat in the swamp and at the beach. He showed how passionate he is about nature, and I did the same with my passion for the ocean. So, his passion for the environment really stuck with me during the years we were apart because, every time I looked out to nature, I would always think about him. But even after all those years of not seeing him I found my heart broken again when tragedy struck my family. I was in so much pain and sadness, and I had no idea how I was going to live without the ones I held close to my heart. Then just like a wish on a star we were both reunited unexpectedly, and I almost forgot about him but then all the memories I had of him came rushing back. I then felt a whole lot of happiness that I never knew I needed this much after having to deal with so many negative things in life. But I was glad that I kept my faith, and he came back into my life for a reason where I have never felt this way about anyone before. I have always believed in second chances, and I am glad I have gotten the second chance of a lifetime. He even said that he believed in destiny and fate; and we were brought back together for a reason, and he was right. Because we both have found a home in each other, and we both have found where we belong. Most of all we both saved each other from darkness and anything that could hurt us. I have now found something to live for, and I have now found a life full of inspiration that is now worth fighting for.

I hope to be able to perform this song live and for him someday but, I hope to find a great composer that can help me achieve that. I would describe this song as being both folk-pop and country which. The mood of the song is joy, happiness, and the one part of the song with the bridge would be the emotional part of the song.

The song started to evolve over time as I had to think back to all my memories I shared with him. I had to remember all those emotions I felt, especially the ones I felt were a powerful moment like from the time we first kissed, and to the times we both ended up leaning on each other for support. I really wanted to project all my deep feelings and memories into the lyrics. I wrote down this song in a few versions because I was really falling in love with the lyrics I came up with, it was almost impossible to choose which ones I wanted to use. I know I had to keep a good rhythm and rhyme that made the lyrics flow smoothly together. But I even had to think back to the times when my friends and peers felt we shouldn’t be together because we are temporarily now long distance for work reasons. There were times we did start to give in to what other people were saying, and we did wonder if we could make this work but we both showed that we couldn’t give up on each other. We both have grown so much in these last few years and people may doubt us but, every day we prove them wrong. Which was why I really wanted to incorporate this part into the lyrics of the song, where the world thinks we’re forbidden hearts. Since this was the part where my feelings had deepened even more for him because, everyone deserves to be happy, and no one can destroy our happiness.

{Intro Verse}

I was lost in the dark, too afraid to love again

Shattered by my past, too broken to recondition

Then fate pulled us back, across space and time

Where two hearts reunited, a love that’s so divine

We were both bound by fate, that kept us forever intertwined

{Chorus}

Through the green, through the night

Through the pain, into the light

No darkness, no death, could tear us apart

You are my shelter, my forever burning heart

{Verse 1}

I’d lost everything, drowning in sorrow

Didn’t know if I’d ever find a new tomorrow

But your hands caught me when I started to fall

You gave me a reason, you gave me it all

{Verse 2}

The green in the swamp, where our love was born

Changed us now and forever, but it healed us more

I’d crumble and fall down, but you’d pick me up

Without you, I’d be lost forever, without your love

{Chorus}

Through the green, through the night

Through the pain, into the light

No darkness, no death, could tear us apart

You are my shelter, my forever burning heart

{Bridge}

I was scared to lose you, but here you are

Waiting for me, no matter how far you are

I swore to myself, I’d never give up on you

And now I see, that my faith brought me back to you.

Even if the world thought we were forbidden hearts

But they could never see what was lying inside of me

That you gave me back my fight, a love that’s worth it

That brightens my whole life, in my darkest nights

{Chorus}

Through the green, through the night

Through the pain, into the light

No darkness, no death, could tear us apart

You are my shelter, my forever burning heart

{Outro}

Our first kiss locked both our hearts in place

A blooming rose in my heart’s embrace

You gave me life, when I thought it was gone

With you, I’ve found where I belong.