A Thousand More

So I’ve been playing around on myYearbook again. It’s kind of silly, I think. It’s unpredictable and not very secure. But I’m enjoying it because people are actually talking to me. Shocker! Just kidding.

Tomorrow, we leave for Colorado. Well, actually, we leave for Anaheim. We’ll be spending two nights in Anaheim and one day in Disneyland!!! <3 so excited! And then, we’ll be heading to Colorado.

This trip is going to be very hard. My grandpa has been sick for awhile now—in and out of treatments, diagnosed and then cured, diagnosed and then cured… it’s a recurring process. And it’s all led up to this: brain cancer. And my mom is not taking it well as it is. We do this Colorado trip every year and it’s always sad to leave but this time it’s going to be heart-breaking. We were told he may only have six to nine months to live. My grandpa is super stubborn and I know that people have beaten those kinds of odds before so right now, I’m not as worried about him as I am about my mom. She’s not in a good place with this. She will have a thousand more moments with him before he’s done here.

Anyways, I’m planning on writing some songs while I’m gone. Where they live, the scenery is just so amazing—it makes me so thankful for such a creative God. But it’ll be an inspiring time for me to write something. I need to really work on my songwriting skills. I want to be like Mayday Parade and Go Radio… Their lyrics are so amazing! You should check them out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZaK37dheCM (Jamie All Over—Mayday Parade)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7d-Tb1MJk (Goodnight Moon—Go Radio)

In fact! I’ve already been inspired. I was watching something… Or maybe I was reading something, but I already have a new song to work with. I’ve written the words and now I’m working on the guitar part. I’ve got a couple people helping me out. I’ll post the lyrics at the end of today’s entry.

I’ve been packing since I got home from church this morning. It’s taking longer than usual. It usually only takes me an hour at the most, I just don’t know what to bring. There isn’t much of a plan once we get there. I hope we do some stuff—my mom is convinced my grandpa isn’t going to want to do anything, but I would argue that he’d want to do as much as possible so that we don’t see him so weak.

Anyways… I don’t have as much to say today… So here’s the new song:

A Thousand More
One song, all I have to give but I swear a thousand more are at my fingertips
This thing we’ve got going on could last so long
We’d have to die a thousand times before anyone could say we were so young
We never learned to love

One thought, there isn’t much time but I swear a thousand more thoughts are running through my mind
You’d tell me all the things you’ve seen
We’d have to write a thousand stories before someone could say we were so young
We never learned how to love

One day, all we have right now but I swear
A thousand more to come when we know just what we want
And hear you me, I promise this
You’ll have my heart just the way you left it
And I’ll sing you every song I write
Every thought spilled on paper, a thousand more songs to keep us alive
We’ll sing so loud, they’ll say we’re so young
We never wanted anyone other than us

One song, one thought, one day—that’s all it’s gonna take
Because I just know that it’s you I want
They could give me a thousand more and none would be the same
None quite like you