--- title: demons description: an original song about finding inner peace created: 2021-02-04 tags: music --- demons === we've all dealt with them. we all have them. during one particularly rough period of my own making, i met someone who claimed they wanted to help me out of "love". but my---fortunately brief---experience with them, short-lived as it was, left me with ptsd and crippling anxiety for a time. i wrote this song, in part, as a way of working through that trauma, accepting it, and coming to terms with it. the verse is from their perspective. the rest is mine. on the surface, it *sounds* like a good friend supporting someone they love. but most every line has a second meaning. <iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/851961214&color=%23696969&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe> lyrics === take my hand i know just what you're going through and all that you try to do though you feel lost you're not alone i'll help you home let the demons let you be brother, put your faith in me and the voices scream so loud that they're drowning out your heart tearing you apart and shadows all around--- thieves of all your peace but there's more to life you'll see i know this hurts i know you're scared just listen to my voice and know i'm always there i see your soul the one you hide screaming from a lack of love i'll give you some of mine take your demons set them free brother put your faith in me and the voices scream so loud that they're drowning out your heart tearing you apart and shadows all around--- thieves of all your peace but there's more to life you'll see you can't find the peace you're dying for no matter how hard you try you won't find the love you're looking for until you look inside voices---once so loud--- can never drown your heart there's more to who you are and shadows, though they try, can never steal your soul you're more perfect than you know