"Motions" (unreleased song)

Hello there, just wanted to drop another song I’ve been working on that I wrote a few weeks back tentatively called “Motions”.

I think many of us are creatures of habit, but to a detrimental level I can certainly get stuck in my routines. Routines are great when they are good habits and things that add health and vigor to your existence, but when it’s needless activities, one day you step back and realize how silly it is to be wasting so much time.

So I wanted to write a song that poked fun at myself for being overly routine oriented, and come from a more everyday kind of perspective…perhaps writing about my breakfast and other eating habits, my typical morning itinerary and same thoughts that pop into my head while in my car and how every evening tends to end…very light hearted.

I think there is that version of this song somewhere out there in a different universe, but I haven’t been feeling very light hearted lately, and I began to think of the idea of routines in a more grand perspective as opposed to just how it relates to an individual. I thought of the routines we as a collective of humans tend to consistently fall into, how culture has various routines and how everything sort of seems to be in a cycle. And no matter how obvious that cycle becomes, or how much harm that cycle can bring to any number of people around the world…the average person is so lost and encompassed by the routines of everyday life that we find ourselves just going through the motions of existence while being surrounded by so much injustice and horrible behavior.

I’ve really been trying a lot lately to snap out of that daze, of that trance, and remember to not lose the importance of deeply feeling what’s happening around me, around my community, and around the world.

So with that, I wrote this song as a way to hopefully bring awareness to how detrimental it is for so many to just remain as bystanders…not only to the horrible acts of others, but bystanders to their own existence as well. The mission is to wake up someone who may be stuck in that trance, and I hope to be able to release it some day.

For paid subscribers, the lyrics and and full voice memo of the song are below. If you’re not a subscriber, I hope you will consider becoming one, and if you’re a free subscriber, it’s important you know that this space can only be kept alive through your support…so if there is something here that resonates with you, I hope you’ll consider supporting my cause. Thank you all so much for being here