Gerard O'Riley

These are my first lyrics with a male counterpart. At the beginning, it was just one part but I thought it will be nice to add someone else and see how it will come along. I wrote these lyrics because I love dancing and I want one day to learn dance styles with a partner such as tango and salsa. So, I thought why not write down, for now, how it would feel to learn for the first time and this is what I came up with.

Taking a look back on life with an old school beat.

When things finally happen, especially at unexpected times, people should be happy. I wrote this song because I am happy. I am happy that I was given this platform to share my feelings, to give people a piece of me. This will be my way to give a helping hand to the world. I hope that my lyrics will help others the same way that it helped me.

This song comes from a time where I was in a lot of pain. No one could actually see that I was really depressed, not even the people closest to me. So one day I unleashed my anger but they still didn’t notice and I ended up saying sorry and kept my deepest feelings inside. At that time, I wrote another song but I was thinking of making another version of it. This is the version of looking back at it, after a few years. Although it was in the past, I wrote the song in present tense because I still feel like this at times and it’s also for people that are in this situation right now.

These lyrics were written because I was tired of going for a dream with lots of obstacles, I’m not the kind of person to give up, I’m actually the opposite. When things get harder, I usually work even harder but this time I actually felt so helpless. I felt that everything that I have done up until then would have gone to waste, it made me so anxious that I literally wanted to run away. I wanted to be strong so running away wasn’t an option. These lyrics were here to lift me up, to help me get through this other stage. I hope it would do the same for other people.