Don’t give up son I know that you are tired Them emotions come bubbling up some Leave your brain feeling rewired. We can go to awful despair When we feel our feelings aren’t cared for Or we try to summon up the words for feelings That for us were never really there for. It can take some life from you When they all come together at once Or people demand from you Like you can never give enough. Don’t give up son I know that you are tired Them emotions come bubbling up some Leave your brain feeling rewired. The things that you plough through Sometimes they plough through you You’re not failing any test On the times you are not at your best. You have a lot on your plate There is a lot of good that you do It’s alright if you’re not feeling great I wish I could have been there more for you. Don’t give up son On those days that you are tired You need to open up some Even if it’s not with the one that you desired. You need to let life in son You’ve spent far too long alone And I know in your heart you think you’ve found the woman But that woman has said that she’s gone. You need to start living your life son In a more caring, deeper way Where the love that you give out Is there for you in a similar way. Don’t give up son You are heading in many good directions And I know for you son This has been one of your hardest lessons. You never quit easy I’ve always noticed that in you And when you get your teeth in a thing You like to see that thing through. You’ve handled a lot of loss I’m pretty proud of the way you handled mine And if there’s a spirit world Know mine was with you at the time. We can decide what we let in And we can decide what we cut out When we are strong enough To see clearer through our doubts. To do that we drink them in We let them fill us whole And we blow out the ones That don’t align with our soul. Don’t give up son Today you are just feeling tired Coming to the end of a long run Of not really meeting your needs or desires. Don’t give up son For what looks like a painful end Can be the beautiful start for some In which open hearts mend. And the more you open yours The more I’m sure that pain will ease The fact the woman that you love, is loving someone else Is something time will just unfortunately have to tease. You need to let some others care for you For precious is our time And you’re in need of love And you never got enough of mine. Things don’t always work out I’m the living dead proof But everyday of life Is an extra day of youth. Don’t give up son I know that you are tired Them emotions come bubbling up some Leave your brain feeling rewired. Life is full of pressure But precious does life be And though I’m not there to say it ‘Son, you were always precious to me.’ Don’t give up son You just going through incremental change And I never knew change That wasn’t laced with pain. You’re just re-walking your hell Learning what served you well Cracking open that protective shell And drinking in the future’s smell. Don’t give up son Your heart is just reopening And in order to do that We need to look at what’s been broken in it. Don’t give up son For never has that been you You’re just breathing in your doubts And breathing out what’s not for you. Don’t give up son For in life there is no smooth sea we sail upon We battle against the tide We’re always going to get stuff wrong. Don’t give up son You just realign with the heart in you You give that heart time And you continue being you. I’m proud of the man you are I’m proud of the man I see And every single man has to ask the same question How much more can that man be? Don’t give up son For that’s not something that we do But that’s just the man in me Talking, to the man, I see, in you. © Daniel Breslin
Category Archives: Helping hand
Bicep Playing Rain
I love good music It just speaks to my heart These electronic sounds being created In this beautiful boundless art. These sounds just strike my soul Speak directly to my being Capture what it is I can’t extol Cutting deep getting straight to feeling. I hear something new Just boundless in these waves And I feel pure soul As I listen to the magic in their play. They just take me different places I’m in awe of what they create I feel their beats opening new spaces And I love when I enter those spaces with my mates. What you living for other? What here is your aim? I don’t really know mine either, but it feels a little clearer When I hear Bicep playing Rain. When I hear Four Tet playing Baby When I hear Opal and Four Tet I feel the essence of beauty I feel that deep connect. In those moments I see brightness I see colours come in sound And I feel our souls are timeless And these sounds are breaking through new ground. We’re all in this together Something better is the aim All in search of pleasure Trying to make some sense out of our pain. And it is my senses that are tickled Lulled and brought alive As this music through me ripples And speaks to my insides. Speaks to my brain, my soul, my heart Makes my body move free of shame And in its symphony claim a part Knowing love and pain are one in the same. Know this life is just a gift And there is nothing that we own But the more we connect, the more we lift And I’m at mercy to the life within these tones. It’s in how they move and soothe me In ways that I can’t speak There’s so many things in life that lose me But music finds me soaring, with the earth beneath my feet. There’s just something in a melody There’s just something in these tunes That take a little hell from me And make life feel so opportune. We’re all just on this little ride For a little space and time Have you been wasting years? Sometimes it feels I’m wasting mine. I just want that little love I just want that little connection And when I can’t get it in flesh and blood In music I find soothing and affection. I find love and I see beauty I see heart and I feel soul As others put so much love in so astutely In the little parts that make the whole. I hear Jon Hopkins play Immunity And a tear comes to my eye As I look at my friends in all their beauty And know that it’s what we offer each other gets us by. I hear Light Through The Veins I just lie back, smile, and sigh For in that song there is such life And it’s one to which I’d gladly die. That ain’t no talk of defeatism That’s just truth in all its hope I’m just drifting in the breeze with em' When I’m drinking in these beats and notes. They just take me different places Travel far and deep inside Make me wear the happiest of faces While at the same time able to bring a tear to my eye. And if you don’t see the beauty in that I wonder do you really see and feel love For that’s exactly the feelings, places, and faces That love brings and gives to us. It shines light on our dark parts Tells us there is beauty in our pain And no matter how much we think we’re different We’re much more one in the same. We’re all in this together We’re all just drifting in the breeze Feeling pain in search of pleasure And things that make us feel at ease. I see it in a friend’s smile And I feel it in these beats and notes And it’s things enacted, made, or born in love That are the things that help us cope. I’m just listening to Four Tet 4T Recordings As I finish these last lines And I feel my soul tingle As these notes mingle and travel up my spine. We’re all in this together We’re all just drifting in the breeze And in this music I find such pleasure And my mind is given ease. What you living for other? What here is your aim? I don’t really know mine either, but it feels a little clearer When I hear Bicep playing Rain. © Daniel Breslin
We Rebuild You Know
We make mistakes
We learn and grow
Start from the floor
And we rebuild you know.
We move on up
We reclaim ourselves
Learn from the past
Try not to blame ourselves.
We survive together
We stumble through
Strive to do better
When this world humbles you.
We can’t change the past
But we can sure change the future
Learn from our pain
Or the pain remains an abuser.
Let it out
Release the seal
Getting it out
Is the only real way to heal.
We suffer deep cuts
We stumble through
Only fools don’t let
This world humble you.
I’ve been humbled too
So many times
Experienced such deep pain
Felt like I nearly lost my mind.
Tried to keep it in
Project deep strength
That’s what made it worse
Where my energy felt spent.
I’ve embraced the hurt
I’ve ran it through
Put in a lot of work
Now I’m ready to hurt anew.
I’m still learning too
On ways to open up
Ask for help
Deepen trust.
We make mistakes
We learn and grow
Start from the floor
And we rebuild you know.
© Daniel Breslin
Smiling Under Pressure
This world will kick you when you’re down
Make you feel so bloody small
Some people even kick you when you’re down
Just to make themselves feel tall.
That’s how big they are
How big they’ll always be
To kick you when you are down
View it as opportunity.
Now these people might find it hard
To look you in your eye
When you raise up from the floor
And still flash them a smile.
You don’t need to kick them
No, you don’t need them at all
For you are not the victim
And you are not their ball.
You are something more
You are something better
You raised up from the floor
While lifting off their pressure.
They’d not lend a hand
But to keep you down
And yet there you stand
Smiling, while they try to hide their frown.
These people aren’t your friends
But don’t make them your enemies
Let them be what they pretend
No harm to keep them friendly.
But you live your life for you
And you note, that when you fell
And life was beating you blue
They tried beat you black as well.
People never cease to surprise you
Their selfishness never fails to amaze
From lows let something beautiful rise and rise in you
Till the day you’re lowered in the grave.
For you are something more
For you are something better
You raised up off the floor
Smiling under pressure.
© Daniel Breslin