songwriter, vocals, guitar: Teruko
recording, photography: Rick Jones
lyrics
It's hard to let go
of what's familiar,
it's comforting and known;
but if the butterfly
had stayed a caterpillar,
it wouldn't have far to roam.
Everything changes.
You've got to leave the ground to fly.
Enter the strangeness,
you won't know until you try.
Like the first day of school,
walking through that door
into a world so different and new.
It was the end of the one
you had known before,
you were scared and didn't know
what to do.
Everything changes,
and it's okay to cry.
Enter the strangeness,
you don't always know the reasons why.
Sometimes you keep going
with nothing to hold on to
but the faith
that everything will work out
in its way.
And if you find yourself
out on your own
when a long time love ends,
you'll discover
what only you can know:
that a heart doesn't break, it bends.
And everything changes.
You've got to leave the ground to fly.
Enter the strangeness,
there is life after goodbye.
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