Name: Hard Conversations
Duration: P00H01M46S
Description: A song to fill those uncomfortable stares across this dinner table when someone in your family says something terrible that you just can't sit with. Before the conversation takes a turn, hum this to yourself. AND THEN HAVE THAT UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION ! <3 <3 <3 (if you're able to.)

Hard Conversations

from All Dressed Up and nowhere to go... by Skye Zentz

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A song to fill those uncomfortable stares across this dinner table when someone in your family says something terrible that you just can't sit with. Before the conversation takes a turn, hum this to yourself. AND THEN HAVE THAT UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION ! <3 <3 <3 (if you're able to.)

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The presents are opened..
The eggnog's been poured...
We’ve all got our phones out
Coz we’re stuffed and we’re bored
But the fun of the evening has not yet commenced
It’s time we reached over this familial fence

(cause) Christmas is a time for hard conversations,
for sitting down together
and speaking from the heart
We may not vote the same
but we share a last name
Basic Human Rights
is a lovely place to start
We don’t have to agree on the
ham or the prune cake,
but one thing must be true
...that no matter where I'm from,
who I am or who I love
I deserve the same freedoms as you

Its a privilege
to avoid a conversation
and this conversation is
with someone who cares
Its high time we learned to
sit in our discomfort
cause holidays shouldn’t end
in empty chairs

Christmas is a time for hard conversations
For finding one and one
still do make two
It only takes an open mind,
A little love, a little time
There’s still a lot
a heart to heart can do

What is family?
It’s up to me and you.

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from All Dressed Up and nowhere to go..., released November 26, 2020

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Skye Zentz Norfolk, Virginia

Songwriter for the Emmy Award Winning "GreenBeats" series on WHRO, Educator at The Muse Writers Center and vanquisher of cheese plates.

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