W Writing a song for me...is like taking a picture and capturing a moment in your life...forever.. And yes...I am a happy person...I love to laugh......I guess I have just had some tough moments now and then..some inspire one song others a few..... I don't toil over songs....I just can't manage to do that..I have learned however, that the trick to writing for me,is knowing myself well enough to know when the moment is there and to pick up my guitar and let it happen...it is like giving an emotional birth..*smiles*. The whole song lyric,melody..everything comes out right then....I may fine tune a word or a phrase afterward...rarely actually...but what you are hearing is what came out in the moment..it is definitely honest and true. ღ*¨*

 "You Can Cope" ~ ღϠ₡ღ¸.✻´´¯`✻.¸¸.•*¨`*ღ

I think this song has been simmering in me for my whole life ....since I was a little girl. I was at work early one morning and someone came in and told me a student of mine(I teach voice) had killed himself...in that moment my 2 worlds collided past and present, because my Mom committed Suicide when I was 3 and a half years old. I grabbed a scrap piece of paper and the words just poured out. Up until that moment..I never thought I would finally,write such song...which wound up being of hope instead of despair. I brought it home placed it on my stand and didn't look at it again till about 3 weeks later and finally I had that moment happen...and out the song came...1st time a song came out like that..the words...with no melody in mind..and a 3 week delay for the melody..but oddly...I sang it..and all the words I wrote...well I used them, didn't have to change much at all...I still have that scrap piece of paper.....it was done in about 5 minutes like most of my songs...but this one...had a "hiccup"......

 

My hopes for this song is to raise awareness, help to lift the stigmas as well as to help generate funds for Suicide Prevention. This , is what currently drives me with my music by using the talent I have been given , with a heart full of hope and love, I pray I manage to make a difference.

 

~ Always, Debra メO