New Song, “The People You Never Really Trusted”

New Song, “The People You Never Really Trusted”

I had a great time being part of The Acoustic Guitar Project, in which participants are given a guitar, a mic, and a week to write a song. This is what happened.

The song is done (I’m already thinking of revisions, of course), and the guitar is signed and passed onward. Thanks Matt Beck for handing it to me, and good luck to Osei Essed this coming week…

“The People You Never Really Trusted” (first draft)
© Mike Errico

Did you know
You tell a lot and never show
You talk too fast and listen slow
Did you know

Are you mad
The shiny things you never had
It’s a drug, and it’s easy to go bad
Are you mad

And I wonder how you ever got so angry
The gratitude you missed with your swinging wild fist
You’ll take my time enough to finally blame me
For the moment we first kissed and I wound up on your list
Of the people you never really trusted

Do you care
The cage you’re in is made of air
And nothing real is really fair
Do you care

And I wonder how we ever get so blinded
By what we think we need, what it looks like to succeed
But do you even want to be reminded
That no matter what the speed, you’re not close to breaking free
From the people you never really trusted

Line ‘em up against the wall
And tell everybody else for once and for all
You know your secret’s safe with someone new
If only you could hold on to the strength you need to truly close your eyes
Good night
Good night

Do you doubt
That you’ve yet to figure out
The time we have is running out
Do you doubt

And I wonder where I’ll be the day you get it
That everything you see is all you let yourself believe
And will I know if you had grown up to regret it
And will this moment be something I can still retrieve
From the people you never really trusted