Forgot What I Got

I wrote this song today. I was in a pissy mood after something someone had said to me and I was upset upon realizing that I'm a lot less aware of others than I like to believe. I actually wrote music this time. Well I didn't write it. But I know it. I wrote this while listening to Quadrophenia by the Who, which I just tracked down. Have the odd feeling that I may be quadrophenic. Words and Music(yay!) by Aarushi

I didn’t know to consider
That I didn’t deserve to have better
Than those around me
Raised to believe
To expect the best
Never had to test

Dreamed I was amazing
In my own right
Believed I was gazing
At my own rights
Never expected to realize
That it somehow wasn’t true
That my self-help was making others blue

That I should stop for a moment
Make other’s loads lighter
That everything I was doing
Wasn’t making smiles brighter

I lived for others
Or so I thought
Seemed to have forgotten
The things I got
Didn’t see
The things that were done for me
I took for granted
The life I received
That surpassed so many other peoples’ dreams
I loved for others
I longed for others
Forgot what I got

Held myself and others like me
In high regard
Didn’t think for a moment
That it might be hard

To be someone differently
To build a brand new respect for the people
Facing changes and challenges unknown
And though my heart was bleedin’
I could still hear my thoughts impedin’
the perfect lie, I’d told myself
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I forgot what I got…
Lived for others- forgot what I got

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