{"id":15174,"date":"2021-01-18T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15174"},"modified":"2021-01-18T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:35:13","slug":"a-song-for-a-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/01\/18\/a-song-for-a-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song for a New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all. I hope everyone had a wonderful break and a period of rest to focus on yourselves and your own happiness. Personally, this last month or two has followed quite the learning curve for me. The pandemic and other aspects of my life really got to me last semester, but I came to the realization over the holidays that the world doesn&#8217;t control how I feel. We make our own happiness. For the first time in a long time I feel as carefree and excited about life as I did when I was a kid. This song is a tribute to that feeling: I call it <em>&#8220;I Am. Again.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">VERSE ONE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let me tell you a story<br \/>\nAbout a time in my life<br \/>\nWhen everything finally felt<br \/>\nLike it was going right<br \/>\nAnd my dreams they all seemed<br \/>\nJust one more flight of stairs away<br \/>\nThen I got my heart broken<br \/>\nBut I tried to be brave<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I let myself be a kid again<br \/>\nChasing fairytales and booking flights to places I\u2019ve never been<br \/>\nCuz life isn\u2019t long and we don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll end<br \/>\nAnd sometimes you can\u2019t wait around for your prince to step in<br \/>\nI am a kid again<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">VERSE 2:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now I\u2019m driving round the country<br \/>\nMaking friends along the road<br \/>\nJust kicking it and trying shit<br \/>\nAnd never doing what we\u2019re told<br \/>\nAnd if the car breaks down or we get lost<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll find another way<br \/>\nSleep beneath the stars in a thousand parks<br \/>\nWatching night turn into day<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am a kid again<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I\u2019ve never been<br \/>\nCuz life isn\u2019t long and we don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll end<br \/>\nAnd sometimes you can\u2019t wait around for your prince to step in<br \/>\nOh I am a kid again<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">BRIDGE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thought no one would want me with all these bruises on my conscience<br \/>\nTook me 5 months to even start making progress<br \/>\nNow I look in the mirror and I don\u2019t recognize the person<br \/>\nStaring out back at me yeah cause she looks happy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am a kid again<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I\u2019ve never been<br \/>\nYes I am a kid again<br \/>\nChasing fairytales and booking flights to places I&#8217;ve never been<br \/>\nCuz life isn\u2019t long and we don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll end<br \/>\nAnd sometimes you can\u2019t wait around for your prince to step in<br \/>\nOh I am a kid again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all. I hope everyone had a wonderful break and a period of rest to focus on yourselves and your own happiness. Personally, this last month or two has followed quite the learning curve for me. The pandemic and other aspects of my life really got to me last semester, but I came to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2227,"featured_media":14189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[192,15,1495,1588,1633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15175,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions\/15175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}