Who you are.

The other day it was just one of them days that I wanted to listen to Ed Sheeran so I was just on someone's youtube playlist and there was this cover of Jessie J's Who You Are and I pretty much just fell in love with it! I luv dat saaaong and just thought I'd blog about it!

I love the way Ed sings it and I love the message of it!

I stare at my reflection in the mirror

Why am I doing this to myself?

Losing my mind on a tiny error

I nearly left the real me on the shelf

No, no, no, no, no, no

Sometimes when when you just stand in the front of the mirror and you just think about all the bad stuff, all your flaws, just being negative and over analyzing every aspect of your life. Why? Why do we do that, and everyone does it! Why do we just let ourselves get in that place of self-hate!? It could be coz of like a mistake we made that day, something we said, something someone else said to us but it's all so little in the big picture of life. Then we try stop ourselves, no, you shouldn't feel this way or be thinking this stuff.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars

Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

It's okay not to be okay

Sometimes it's hard to follow your heart

Be try to yourself even when you see like celebrities or even just other people, like you see their lies and what they have, all the material things. What you see may make you think that you will never make it, but you can believe in your dreams. Nobody's happy  and positive all the time everyday, you can be sad and down about stuff. You can go off the path to living your dream, it can be difficult when there's obstacles or other people criticizing you.

\Tears don't mean you're losing

Everybody's bruising

Just be true to who you are

You know when you cry over something and you're just like why? Why am I crying now, why over this? And I've definetely done that before, cried over someone and didn't want to because I knew they wouldn't cry over the whole subject, I felt like I was losing. But everyone gets like that, every one gets sad and upset, everyone's hurting. But you've gotta be you, deal with your emotions how you want to deal with them, don't let people tell you how to control your feelings, express yourself the way you want to and the way you feel neccassery.

Brushing my hair, do I look perfect?

I forgot what to do to fit the mold, yeah

The more I try the less it's working, yeah, yeah, yeah

'Cause everything inside me screams

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Society has a way of making people feel like they need to be perfect. There's a mold or like a checklist of what someone has to look like, act like, say and do. And we, well at least I do, spend hours upon hours doing our hair, trying to find the perfect outfit and then it still doesn't quite work. I know how dat feels man! But it's like an internal battle with yourself and what society wants you to be.

Yes, no's, egos, fake shows like whoa

Just go and leave me alone

Real talk, real life, good love, goodnight

With a smile, that's my home, that's my home, no

No, no, no, no, no

"This song saved my life musically. The day before I wrote this song I was ready to give up music. It's amazing how three-and-a-half minutes of melody and lyrics can change your life and I'm so happy that not only has it saved my life but it's saving other people's."

The song hasn't like saved my life or anything, my life doesn't need saving at the moment but I love this song and can realate it to me. And know that it's impacted lots of people's lives. But gaah yes, I didn't mean for it to get all dark and hadn't really realsies how real or deep the lyrics were till knw when I properly looked at them. So yah! Don't let anyone or anything turn you away from being who you are. 

Also when I just googled the song to find the lyrics, this video came up and so i watched it and it was really really cool! It was like a video that Teah would show me but like I found it myself haha but yeah it's super cool and I'm pretty sure Olea and Teah will like it!