I'm the only one who's bleeding For the things I never needed

Artist- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Song of the day- Things I never needed

Today's artist is THE artist I am most looking forward to seeing this year at Lollapalooza. After missing her sold out show in Chicago the musical gods (or Perry Farrel) shined their light upon me and added her to the lineup. There's something about her voice that punches through your chest and gets your heart pumping. Usually in a southern old school rock n roll kind of way and if you don't believe me look up one of the other several songs of hers I have posted and see what I mean. However, on a turn of a dime she can shoot out a ballad like today's song that makes your heart shiver in a different way. She makes me wish to have brunch more than I usually do, just so I can pause and lament about my life.

These lyrics cut to the core of an inner struggle I seem to have most of my life but especially this year. It's the struggle to want to carry everything on your shoulders, your problems, other peoples problems, a savior complex in the purest of forms longing for approval with the constant realization that I can't do it and it just might hurt me in the end to do so. To get to that place where you're vulnerable enough, or broken enough to not only give your best, but also give your worst, your weakness to God who's supposed to do the saving and to give up on wanting approval from others cuz that's not where my identity is and will always leave me emptier. The truly dying to self part that we cling so hard to but don't see that once we let go control, the scariest of all things, is when the true living, the true approval, the true saving begins. If you're like me and holding on to things you never needed and want to sing about it over brunch with me, this one's for you.



Take a long hard look at my face
Take away the things I can't replace
Take my heart, go on take it away
I've got nothing to say

Take away this sense of regret
Take the things I need to forget
Take the mistakes I haven't made yet
They're all I have left

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed


Take a good long look at yourself
Take the weight off everyone else
Take the hardest blow that was dealt
It's all on your shoulders

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed
The things I never needed

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed
The things I never needed