From Which I Parted

From Which I Parted is one of the last songs I wrote for RE:boot.  It actually received local radio airplay for 3 weeks on a local musicians spotlight show. 

Some people have asked me who the song is about, thinking it was about a particular person, but it isn't. I thought it would be fun to "personify" the past and write a song to it.  It's about getting over your past sorrows, or hurts and moving on.  It can become something you can blame all your shortcoming and failures on.  "Oh, I have always been told I'll amount to nothing, so that's what I'll believe."  

From Which I Parted

(c)2012 - Midiboy Music

We used to be the best of friends but now we rarely speak at all

I thought that I would miss you, until I realized I was trapped in your thrall

And I thought that I could not live without you, that I could not survive

Until I left you behind, I did not know what it meant to be alive.

Go away, you are not needed. 

You are the past from which I parted.

You were the crutch on whom I leaned, upon which I could place the blame

An excuse for all my failures, the reason I am who I became

But now I turn and walk away, the present is where I now will live

My future looks a whole lot brighter when the past I do not relive

Jesus will lead me and He will guide me. He will be right by my side

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While it is true that our past does mold us into who we are today, we tend to hang on to the negative aspects and ignore the positives that can come out of it, using it as an excuse, so that's why I wrote this song.

That's all.

Gregg