Music Monday: Maps...to the Future

I'm still in recovery mode from ConCarolinas this past weekend. What a great experience! What that means is that my Music Monday post is late...and this song is very appropriate to how I'm feeling after that experience. "This is the way back home..." This weekend was the way back home to who I am when I'm not stressed out, when I'm a writer, when I can chat with someone in my second language...it was good for my soul, and while I had my doubts I really proud of myself for going. 

I was on a panel about the songs we use in our writing, and this one also speaks to me about my Orana Chronicles characters and their journeys...especially one very special Clawsharp. No spoilers, though...at least not yet.

So please enjoy Ireland's Eurovision entry for 2021 (did you really think I'd be over that so soon? Please, ask my roommates from this weekend how many times I mentioned watching the Fire Saga movie or just a rerun of Eurovision!), Maps by Lesley Roy.

Maps

by Lesley Roy

I'm gonna let down all the armor

Let out the power that I've been hiding

Not afraid of the monsters, of the nightmares

That I've been fighting

Easy to run, harder to stay

Finding colours in the grey

Thought I was done, but I got it wrong

I fell twice, I'm twice as strong

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces

Only one way to go

This is the way back home

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces

Only one way to go

This is the way back home

I had to take all of the long ways

All of the wrong ways

'Cause I couldn't see

All the signs, all the mistakes

Pointing one way to get back to me

Easy to run, harder to stay

Finding colours in the grey

Thought I was done, but I got it wrong

I fell twice, I'm twice as strong

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces

Only one way to go

This is the way back home

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces

Only one way to go

This is the way back home

My soul is a map, my heart is a compass

I am the road

There's only one way to go

This is the way back home

My soul is a map, my heart is a compass

I am the road

There's only one way to go

This is the way back home

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces

Only one way to go

This is the way back home

I've been searching all the wrong places

I've been trying too many faces (I've been trying)

Only one way to go

This is the way back home