Better Off
by @spinhead
Liner Notes
The lowest point of my life was just a few months ago, when I waited for hours and hours for Best Beloved to wake up so I could tell the person who loves me more than life that I realized she didn't love me anymore.
We got me started on serious mental health help that day. Things are much better, but it's a deep hole, really dark.
The song is just a song; a way to purge thoughts I genuinely don't want in my head. You're a songwriter. You understand.
Lyrics
crushed under the weight you didn't buy carrying the bricks to build someone else's home you fall sometimes and pick it all back up no matter how it hurts you carry on
it's not your fault you're carrying this load you used to have such peace, I saw it in your eyes remember how I used to make you laugh? and now I just can't hear it anymore
and I ask myself, wouldn't it be best? I ask myself why everything is so unfair for you I ask myself if you can keep on going and I ask myself for the hundredth time wouldn't you be better off it seems like you'd be better off I think you'll just be better off this way
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This process has always helped, for sure. Always good to hear that someone else has been there, too.
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Great lyrics!!! I can’t relate from the mental health aspect, but after three years of marriage, my wife ended up with a serious long term health issue. She had been in the hospital crying one day and she asked me the same question. The song is great!!! Very relatable. We all have our bricks….. my wife picks up another one my bricks every time she rolls her eyes at me…… 😂 Nice job!
I am very glad this doesn't feel familiar to you, or for anyone who can say that. My wife is that person; she is balanced, reasonable, happy, and she reminds me every day that she wants me here, whatever shape I'm in.
Glad the song resonated.
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Well done - and I hope it helped to get those dark thoughts out of your head and on the page. I've worked a lot out via songwriting therapy myself in recent years, and I know it helped me. I also know how awful it feels when you're burdening the one you love - and how amazing it feels when that person is there for you through the hardest times.