Unwritten

Lexie has a new favorite song. Which means I am forced to listen to it at every waking moment. Initially, I enjoyed the music. Then it started to get on my nerves. UNTIL, for the first time, I really listened to the lyrics. Which are as follows:

I am unwritten,
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your INHIBITIONS

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines
We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your INHIBITIONS

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
To the years where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your INHIBITIONS

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

~Natasha Bedingfield

Absolutely beautiful. And brilliant, as far as I'm concerned. Especially from a writer's point of view. We're all writing the pages of our lives, in a sense. Authoring our own autobiography every day. And unless we pay attention to the world around us and appreciate what we have, it won't be a very good "book." Also? It has to have conflict, problems, imperfections. Because nobody is perfect. Be open to making mistakes, open to new experiences, open to LIFE. Enjoy what you have today, plan for tomorrow - because the rest is still unwritten.

I hope Lexie never gets sick of that song.