Category Archives: About Lyrics

Window To Your Soul

Your Eyes is about a girl whose boyfriend goes away on tour and she says it’s fine but then the distance starts to wear on the relationship. She still loves him but wonders if he still loves her. Then the tour ends, he comes home and he still looks at her as if she’s the most important person in the world. She can by looking in his eyes that he still loves her.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul and that’s kinda the idea behind these lyrics. Most of a persons thoughts and feelings are shown through that facial features and talking on the phone can only do so much to make a person feel secure in their relationship.

In the end she decides to go on tour with him next time because she doesn’t want to be a part from for so long again. She’s happiest with him.

None of this happened to me, I just thought the story was nice.
A work of pure fiction.

Love
Roxanne

I’m Okay

Get Out Of My Head is about someone who has witnessed people being murdered and now he feels guilty. That guilt has manifested itself as voices in his head, telling him to take his own life to atone for not helping to save their life.

I wrote it kind of disjointed like their mind was scattered and not making sense to, show that they might have been losing their mind a bit. That it was all in their head.

I wrote it as I was feeling similarly scattered. Not out of guilt, or maybe it was, maybe I was projecting and I do feel guilty. I mentioned in my earlier post, I’m Still There that I went through something recently and while for the most part I’m fine, sometimes something brings it all back. It’s during those moments when I’m not fine and writing about is the only way I know how to get through it.

It feels weird to sharing all this, but I made a promise with myself to be completely honest. Although with nobody actually reading my posts yet it’s kind of like spilling all my secrets to a brick wall.

Love
Roxanne

Hope For A Brighter Future

Broken Inside is about a girl who is feeling down about her life. She has been strong and kept it hidden for so long but it was becoming too much. She almost gave up but decided to give living another go.

Admittedly it’s not one of my best but I used write quite dark endings and so I like that she doesn’t give in to her sadness that was threatening to overcome her. She has hope for a brighter future and I guess, since I wrote it, it means I have hope for a brighter future.

The night is darkest just before the dawn.

Love
Roxanne

Effects Of Social Media

If You Only Knew is about the effects of social media on young girls(and boys). The girl in the song becomes obsessed with a young male celebrity and is desperate to get his attention. Her life is solely about getting a follow from him on twitter. She tweets him pictures to get him to notice her but his other female fans see it and get territorial. These girls are also obsessed with this guy and see this girl as a threat to them getting noticed by their ‘sunshine’. So they bully this girl until she loses all self worth and no longer likes what she sees in the mirror. She’s still obsessed with this guy but where before she was determined to get noticed by him, it was her reason for waking up each day. Now it’s had a negative effect on her. No longer believing she is worthy of this guy and that he won’t ever notice her, there’s no longer a reason for her to get up in the morning. She becomes depressed and with people on social media telling her to go kill herself, she decides to do just that.

This girl became so obsessed that she couldn’t see those who cared about her. She couldn’t see how anyone could care about her after the other girls bullied her.

I decided to write this song after seeing some things being said to and by some of those I follow on twitter. I see girls posting pictures of their ‘sunshine’ or their favourite young male celebrity with the caption “If you need me I’ll be digging my grave”. Whether they are actually serious or not is besides the point. If they’re posting about suicide, then it’s likely they’ve thought about suicide.

Then there’s the hate between the fandoms of different celebrities or bands. I once saw one fandom create a hashtag that said another fandom should cut deeper next time they try to hurt themselves. It’s not right and I felt someone should do something to make people realise that that’s not how we should treat each other.

Telling someone they should go kill themselves, whether you mean it literally or not, is careless. You never know where that person’s head is at when they read it. It may be the thing they need to push them over the edge.

Please be kind to one another.

Love
Roxanne

You Deserve Better

Whispering Pretty Things  is about those guys (and girls) that pretend to care about the girls they’re with. They say all the right things to make you fall for them, to make you think he’s fallen for you, but really he’s just using you.

I don’t like to think that this happens to people. I hope it doesn’t happen to you. But if it does, know that it’s not your fault and you deserve better. You will find a guy who loves you and knows how special you are. I know you’ll find him.

Love
Roxanne

I’m Still There

It’s All Quiet Now is about something that happened to me recently. Well, more like happened adjacent to me. There was a hostage situation in the building I work in. I work on the ground floor and it happened in the cafe across the hall. I wasn’t technically a hostage, although I and the people I was with, couldn’t get out for a few hours. I could see the hostages and there wasn’t much than a bit of glass between me and a man with a gun.

This song is about how, although I escaped, I never really left. I can picture the events of that day like it just happened and it doesn’t exactly help that I still have to work in that building everyday. I made it out and life appears normal and quiet but it will never be the same. While the world moves on, I’m still there. Trying to get out.

Love
Roxanne

Based On Me

Bad Girl is based on me. I have tattoos, wear a lot of black and I’ve always got on, what my friends like to call, my evil bitch face glare. But those are my walls, my defenses. Once you get passed them I’m loyal to and protective of my friends. Plus my friends get a kick out making fun of me for my glare and my short skirts. The name Roxanne actually came from one of my friends. One time I wore this really tight and short red dress so they started singing “Roxanne! You don’t have to put on the red dress” Basically calling me a whore. I thought it was funny and I guess it kind of stuck. But they know that thats not me on the inside. They don’t judge me on my looks, they accept me for who I am.

So I guess the moral of this song is that old saying, don’t judge a book by its cover. People don’t always project who they are on the inside, outside.

Love
Roxanne