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I Choose Life

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Verse

If you could live one more day
What would it take you to stay
There’s more to life than getting out of bed
Take a look around get out of your head
You can’t just live til the end of the week
Then hit pause rewind and repeat
You can’t give up can give in
You gotta start living

Chorus

If there’s any hope
For a better day
If you can’t cope
Find a way
Your dreams can’t come true
If death comes for you
So choose to fight
I choose life

Verse

If you’re only wishing on a star
You won’t get very far
Your path isn’t fated
All good things to those who waited
The only way to get where you going
Is to believe without ever knowing
The happiest I’ve ever been
Came to me in a dream

Chorus

If there’s any hope
For a better day
If you can’t cope
Find a way
Your dreams can’t come true
If death comes for you
So choose to fight
I choose life

Bridge

If death comes a calling
Do you think you could stall him
This life is worth fighting for
What are you dying for

Chorus

If there’s any hope
For a better day
If you can’t cope
Find a way
Your dreams can’t come true
If death comes for you
So choose to fight
I choose life

If you could live one more day
What would it take for you to stay

Remember To Breathe

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Verse

I’ve got the devil riding shotgun
Imaginary friends aren’t so fun
It’s a crowded house up in here
With all the demons you should fear.

Take your bets on what’ll break me first
But I know I’ll make it through the worst
Because I’m stronger than I even know
And stubborn as all hell, so

Chorus

Remember to breathe
When you’re barely holding on
Remember to breathe
When everything goes wrong
Remember to breathe
Even when it’s all you’ve got
Even when you wish you’d stop
Remember to breathe

Verse

You get those voices in their cages
They can stay that way for ages
It’s all quiet til one breaks loose
Then they’ll be reaching for the noose

But you’ve got to get up stand your ground
Don’t let those demons hold you down
If there’s one thing that you should know
You’re strong enough too, so

Chorus

Remember to breathe
When you’re barely holding on
Remember to breathe
When everything goes wrong
Remember to breathe
Even when it’s all you’ve got
Even when you wish you’d stop
Remember to breathe

Bridge

In and out
It’s all you gotta do
One foot in front of the other
One day after another
In and out
Its all you really need
Let it bring you back to life
Let it aid you through the night
In and out
Remember

Chorus


Remember to breathe
When you’re barely holding on
Remember to breathe
When everything goes wrong
Remember to breathe
Even when it’s all you’ve got
Even when you wish you’d stop
Remember

breathes

Wanderlust

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So, yesterday I made an impromptu decision to join my friends on their trip to Japan. After clearing with work first of course. Considering I’m going to Canada in less than two weeks and didn’t have enough holiday days to go to Japan for two weeks.

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I cleared it with work and booked my flights and accommodation. I’m going on two overseas holidays this year. It’s just lucky I had enough money saved that I could afford it all. But that’s what my money has always been for. I work so that I can travel.

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I have already visited 15 countries in less that five years, 17 by the end of this year, and my wanderlust doesn’t seem to be fading at all. If anything it’s getting stronger. With each country I visit I want to see more, experience more cultures. Japan had never really been on my list of places to see, until recently, and now I’m super excited about going.

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I like seeing how other people live, what they consider a normal part of their life and comparing it to my own. I now know how small my life really was growing up. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to have grown up in Australia with two loving parents and two siblings. I went to a private school, had decent clothes and went waterskiing on the weekend. I had a pretty good upbringing, but I lived in a bubble.

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I’m starting to learn how big the world really is and it’s changing me. When people I went to school with are getting married and having kids, I just don’t see the point. I used to think having a boyfriend was so important, but it’s not.

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There’s more to life than having some guy buy you dinner. If I found someone to go with me to see the world that might be a different story, but until that day, I won’t settle for anyone who doesn’t see the world as I do or isn’t even open to it.

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I can’t wait to experience more of what life has to offer, or what more I could life about the world and about myself.

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Love
Roxanne

Live Your Life

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Sweet Dreams was written about my desire to travel. It’s kinda been taking over my mind lately, probably because I’m going to Canada in June, but I’m also already planning a trip to Europe for next year.

I wrote it because all over Facebook recently, people my age (23) and younger have been getting married and announcing that they’re pregnant, which, you know, congrats as long as they are happy, but I just can’t imagine putting my own dreams on hold for someone else. So I just want to tell people who have these dreams to travel or do something with their life that they aren’t already doing, that they should go and do it now before something comes up and that option is taken away from them forever.

Life is too short not to do what makes you happy, but long enough that once you’ve gone out and lived life the way you wanted, you have time to settle down. That’s my belief anyway. If you die before you settle, before having kids, you’re not going to regret it. Those kids won’t grow up without a parent and you never knew what it was like to have a child. If you die before you got a chance to really live, that you’ll regret.

I want to live and die with no regrets. To see the countries I want to see, to try things I want to try and to learn things I want to learn. Sometimes things change when we don’t want them to change, and sometimes things stay the same when we do want them to change. Sometimes you need to make the change to see the future you want. To be the person you want.

Love
Roxanne

I Will Not Forget

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Paint The Walls was written after the one year anniversary of a day I’ll never forget. The Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney. I was at work about 5 metres away when it started.

I’ve written other lyrics in the months following that day but they were more emotional and I wanted to write something now that a bit more time has passed. Something less about what I felt and more about what happened after.

The amount of people that stopped by afterwards, not to pay their respects, but to take a selfie in front of the building was disgusting. One family tried to get in and see the inside. It was still a crime scene and these parents wanted to take their young children in to see where 2 innocent lives were lost.

And don’t get me started about the media. You should have seen the amount of cameras there were the day of the grand reopening.

I still get angry when I think about the days following 15/12/14. But not everyone was so disrespectful. There were so many flowers that they had to keep finding new places where people could put them.

I used to think about that day everyday. Working so close didn’t really help. I can’t imagine what it’s like for those working in Lindt that day that still work there. But lately I’ve found that I’m thinking about it less and less.

I don’t want to forget about it. I don’t want to forget the lives that were lost and the lives that were changed forever. I feel that if I stop thinking about that day then those lives will be forgotten, like they didn’t mean anything. Like their tragic deaths didn’t mean anything. That would make the events of those 17 hours even more tragic.

I don’t want to forget. I will not forget.

Love
Roxanne

Enjoy Life

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Nothing But Time is about how everyone is always so focused on the little things in life, like work, bills and taxes, that they forget to actually enjoy it. Excluding accidents and illnesses, we’re all on this Earth for a long time and some of us spend our entire lives without truly living.

We were not born just to work until we die. We should continue learning and growing right up until the end. That’s my plan. I work to pay for my holidays to experience more of the world.

Living in Australia means you grow up kind of isolated from every other country and most people never leave the part of Australia they grew up in. I refuse to be one of those people. I have been to 16 different countries so far and I have a plan to make 30.

I have grown more and learnt more from traveling to see those countries than probably through all those years of school. I done more things, faced more fears, than I thought I ever would and I feel that I have truly lived.

Life is not only about marriage, a house and kids. We should explore more and learn more about other people and cultures so that when we do settle down, we have more to teach our kids about the world.

The point is we shouldn’t live each day for a future that may never happen. Enjoy yourselves. Enjoy life.

Love
Roxanne

Happily Ever After

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Paper Crown was written about how when you’re a kid life seems happy and good. But it’s not always. You get told you can be anything you want, do anything you want, but at the time when I was writing it, I didn’t feel so hopeful.

There are always things trying to put you down, obstacles you must face, and sometimes it overwhelms me. Sometimes I feel like I can’t overcome any of it. I just want to go back to when I was a kid and things were simpler.

But all children must grow up and discover that the world isn’t always good. They can be hurt, trampled on and kicked while they’re down, even killed.

But in the end you must have hope that one day your dreams will come true, that you will have that happily ever after you wished for as a kid. We need hope. Without it, what’s the point in living, of life in general.

I have hope. Do you?

Love
Roxanne