• TIGLJK
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Topic: All I Ever Wanted ( is for me to be me)

This is a song I wrote for all the people facing mental issues ( especially teens).
As a teacher and coach, I have seen this way too often in young peoples lives.
Recently i was also exposed to the plight of a couple of soldiers who I also taught years ago, and we discussed the mental issues they had to deal with.

It's a song about just wanting to be happy and be oneself - relieved of these issues. and that there is help out there- so don't be afraid to get it.

  https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … -is-for-me 

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Re: All I Ever Wanted ( is for me to be me)

jim, really glad you wrote this one. the title alone hits hard - just wanting to be yourself shouldn't feel like such a battle but for a lot of people it really is.

i had a buddy in college who went through some rough stuff mentally and he always said music was the one thing that kept him grounded when nothing else made sense. songs like this matter more than people realize. the fact that you wrote it from your experience as a teacher seeing kids go through it gives it this authenticity you can't fake.

listened to the soundcloud recording and there's a warmth to it that fits the message perfectly. it doesn't preach, it just kind of sits with you. that's hard to pull off with a heavy topic like this.

and the part about soldiers too - those conversations must have been something else. glad you channeled it into something like this instead of just carrying it around. that's what songwriting's for right?

really hope more people hear this one.