Take Back Your Life!

Hey rebellious ones!

I don’t know about other karaoke singers but I only sing songs where the words speak to me in some way. If I’m not connected to the words, to the emotion, I can’t learn the song. My singing teacher makes me act out the songs during lessons. It helps me sing with feeling. Being a mannequin with a mic doesn’t appeal to me.

One song I’m working on is Jewel’s, “Who will save your soul?” Love the emotion in her voice, the way it quivers, wails, sails every which way. But it’s the words that stop me in my tracks every time. “Who will save your soul if you won’t save your own?” It took me a long time to figure out that I had to reach out to myself and save my own soul because no one else could do this for me.

And I did through singing. I saved my own soul and my own life through song. Not sure where I’d be now if I hadn’t taken that first fearless step and signed up for singing. Writing this I started to wonder why Jewel wrote it. A Wikipedia entry says, “When I was about sixteen years old I took a train from Michigan to San Diego and then into Tijuana and hitchhiked around Mexico. It seemed like everybody else was looking for somebody to save them.”

Please tell me, how you have or how you can save your own soul?

Muse thx,

Giulietta