This limited edition album includes details about the STEP workshop at the Jazz Academy, introductions by the journalist, artwork by the designers and, of course, all those wonderful lyrics.
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Like many tales of success, this song began with an observant teacher. “At the end of my eighth grade year my Language Arts teacher got a bunch of flyers to submit your song lyrics to a competition and she told me she thought it would be something I’d be good at and she wanted me to try and write something to enter for it….so I did” explains Sarah. Sarah, who began high school in the fall of 2012, had been writing poems, short stories, and songs outside of school for quite some time, and was becoming familiar with the nuances between each. “I think songs are the most fun to write, because I like music a lot too and putting the two together is always a lot of fun.” Though the subject matter she chose to submit to The Project deals with a romance between a male and a female, she didn’t base the song on any specific relationship. “I just wanted to write something that was really relatable, something someone could listen to and immediately think of a certain situation.” An aspiring musician herself, Sarah also has dreams of being a pop singer. After her lyrics were chosen for the Summer of 2012 workshop, she was invited down to the recording studio to see the process up close. By the time her song was released her picture had been in the paper and she was getting a small taste of the pop star lifestyle. “My friends got really into it too, which is really cool. A lot of them bought copies of it on Itunes. One friend says I’m famous now.” But Sarah remains humble and helpful. When asked to give advice to future lyricists of The Project she urged them to be bold. “ Don’t be afraid to make it your own”.
lyrics
He looks at her and she looks at him.
She wonders where, where he’d been.
He hopes her heart’s not taken.
She hopes she won’t end up breaking again.
He takes her hand,
and she can’t stand to think he’d ever leave her.
He says the day he leaves is the day he stops to breathe.
He never wants to see his baby cry.
I love you.
I hope you know its true,
It’s the best I can do.
It’s enough for me.
Just say you love me.
He swings her around
and kneels on the ground,
down on one knee.
Won’t you tell me honey,
“Will you marry me?”
I love you.
I hope you know its true,
It’s the best I can do.
It’s enough for me.
Just say you love me.
Say you love me, too.
credits
from Insteption,
released August 21, 2012
Lyrics- Sarah, Hilliard Weaver Middle School
Music- Members of The DewDroppers
Recorded and mixed by Joseph Anthony Camerlengo
Released on Insteption in August 2012
Radio Premier: Sept. 2012
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