Name: The Quieter Side
Duration: P00H03M12S
Description: A song for looking back and forward at the same time. This song was sitting on my heart when I woke up on the morning of New Years Eve. Its something of a warm towel to my spirit after a long year of emotional gymnastics. I don't think January 1st is always the BEST day for a fresh start...because, in truth, a new year can start any day you're ready for it to.

The Quieter Side

from January Song a Day 2020 by Skye Zentz

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A song for looking back and forward at the same time. This song was sitting on my heart when I woke up on the morning of New Years Eve. Its something of a warm towel to my spirit after a long year of emotional gymnastics. I don't think January 1st is always the BEST day for a fresh start...because, in truth, a new year can start any day you're ready for it to.

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Velvet sequin elegance
Loud rooms and finger foods
A porch full of voices and cigarettes
Old friends and dancing shoes

Cheers to the quieter side
Cheers to the things we made it through
Cheers to stuff we survived
When the hurt runs clear
I release you

Beneath the sparkly shiny times
Out in the tempest's wake
Someone kept a light burning
So we could find our way

Cheers to the rain and the fog
Cheers to the patterns we outgrew
Cheers to the ones who weren’t there for us
When the hurt runs clear
I release you

I send it to the fire
I give it to the wind
There is nothing left for me to do
But begin again

Cheers to the quieter side
Cheers to the days we couldn’t do
Cheers to hurt we buried down inside
Cheers to the unkindness that was shown to you
Cheers to feeling unloved
cheers to feeling abandoned
Cheers to feeling the weight of a hurt
While politeness and grace was demanded
Cheers to the wretched things that we all made it through
And When the hurt runs clear
I release you

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from January Song a Day 2020, released January 1, 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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