Peculiarities of Pace (Feel This Way)

I wrote this song a couple years ago after really trying to make a relationship work, but I just couldn’t. The quickest indicator was that we were never walking at the same pace. He always wanted me to slow down, but I wouldn’t. So I wrote this song. Doesn’t matter what you blame it on, sometimes you just don’t feel the way you’d like to. You don’t ask for it. It’s just how it is.

 

Lyrics

My silence is nothing but an answer

My sorrow is not for you to know

My body reacts when I am ready

And goes where my language will not go

 

You’re sweet, but you’re not my inspiration

You’re strong, but you’re not my soul’s refuge

My heartbeat stays oh so slow and steady

And my feet will not slow down for you

 

Oh peculiarities of pace

Oh the politics of space

Oh a different time a different place

Promise I don’t ask to feel this way

Feel this way

 

It’s true that you deserve an explanation

But you won’t be hearing it from me

Sometimes a heart is an awful obligation

You’d be better off to move on and let me be

 

So
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