Music Monday – Catch My Breath

Anyone who meets me knows I love music. I love all types… ummm okay I love most types of music. For me its about the lyrics and what it is the artist is talking about or what message they are trying to convey. I love to dissect a song and its lyrics completely. Every Monday I want to post a song that either inspires me, makes me think about the world we live in, motivates me to always be who I am or may be something I was feeling at some point. It will be a great mix of different types of music and hope it will also do the same for you. I love to think that music captures what so many of us may be feeling or want to say, but don’t know how.

SONG – Catch My Breath

ARTIST – Kelly Clarkson

LYRICS –

“I don’t wanna be left behind
Distance was a friend of mine
Catching breath in a web of lies
I’ve spent most of my life
Riding waves, playing acrobat
Shadowboxing the other half
Learning how to react
I’ve spent most of my time

Catching my breath, letting it go,
Turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath, won’t let them get me down,
It’s all so simple now

Addicted to the love I found
Heavy heart, now a weightless cloud
Making time for the ones that count
I’ll spend the rest of my time
Laughing hard with the windows down
Leaving footprints all over town
Keeping faith, karma comes around
I will spend the rest of my life

Catching my breath, letting it go,
Turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath, won’t let them get me down,
It’s all so simple now

You helped me see
The beauty in everything

Catching my breath, letting it go,
Turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

Catching my breath, letting it go,
Turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

Catch my breath

Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath, won’t let them get me down,
It’s all so simple now
It’s all so simple now

Catching my breath, letting it go,
Turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

(Catch my breath)

Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
(Catch my breath)
Catch my breath (catch my breath), won’t let them get me down,
It’s all so simple now”

LISTEN TO IT HERE – Catch My Breath – Kelly Clarkson

WHY I PICKED IT – I know it’s been a long while since I posted a Music Monday… I apologize about that. I was enjoying the last few weeks of my time on the road and now the 1st 2 weeks of my time at home. Well they are back and I plan on posting more music the weeks ahead. I also know you may have noticed I hadn’t posted in a while, well that was just because I was back at home and am still adjusting… but I plan on coming back full swing again. So any who back to why I picked this song.

I picked Catch My Breath, because even though my girl Kelly Clarkson wrote it to summarize the last 10 years of her life. For me this song summarizes the last 2 years of my life and it’s how I feel today. I feel like now that I am home I am “CATCHING MY BREATH” and well the lyrics say it all

“Addicted to the love I found
Heavy heart, now a weightless cloud
Making time for the ones that count
I’ll spend the rest of my time
Laughing hard with the windows down
Leaving footprints all over town”

I found my love for travel and fuck yes I am addicted and even though I have seen and done a lot I am not done yet. Now that I know this the following lyrics say it just right.

“Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right”

I’ve been home 2 weeks… and have already been told how I should live my life and what I should do next and the truth is nope for now I’m home catching my breath and will be out on the road soon because yes this is my life and for me it’s right. I will continue to take it one day at a time. Give the song a listen… it’s a very empowering song about enjoying life and well “leaving footrints all over town”.