“The Way It Is” February 2025 Winner

My song “The Way It Is” won best song the Indie Boom February 2025 Song Writing Club. The song was written and recorded in a month from one of 3 themes. The theme I picked was “Love’s Last Breath”. It’s just a break up song about coming to grips with it being over.

The song is not officially released and may change before it finds it’s way to streaming services but you can listen here to the beta version.

Lyrics

The words are hollow
Promises unkept
Too proud to swallow
Truth I can’t accept
It was good while we had
Under god and all of that
Another 2 becoming 1
Til it unraveled and came undone
Got none at all, all at once
I’ll take the fall, it’s what she wants
Another night and then another dawn
Dreaming of another life cause now it's gone

It's time I see it the way it is
It's time I see it the way it is
The way it is, the way it is

The water’s are shallow
Nothing to those depths
A love lay fallow
Taking her last breath

But looking back, ain’t moving on
All that greener grass, it’s another con
No way to stop what's to come
Beaten down to the point I'm numb
Another day thinking what went wrong
Another dusk where i belong
Another night and now another dawn
Remembering another life not that its’ gone

It's time I see it the way it is
It's time I see it the way it is
The way it is, the way it is

All the words I could not say
All the words I could not say

It's time I see it the way it is
It's time I see it the way it is
The way it is, the way it is