You Took My Joy
This is the converstaion I'm having with my story world this week. How did I manage in under a month to get from this to this:
lyrics to Joy written by ?Lucinda Williams.
from CARWHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD (Mercury Records CD).
i don't want you anymore
cause you took my joy
i don't want you anymore
you took my joy
you took my joy
i want it back
you took my joy
i want it back
i'm gonna go to west memphis and look for my joy
go to west memphis and look for my joy
maybe in west memphis I'll find my joy
maybe in west memphis i'll find my joy
i'm gonna go to slidell and look for my joy
go to slidell and look for my joy
maybe in slidell I'll find my joy
maybe in slidell I'll find my joy
(first long instrumental break)
you got no right to take my joy
i want it back
you got no right to take my joy
i want it back
you took my joy
i want it back
you took my joy
i want it back
i'm gonna go to west memphis and look for my joy
go to west memphis and look for my joy
maybe in west memphis i'll find my joy
maybe in west memphis i'll find my joy
i'm gonna go to slidell and look for my joy
go to slidell and look for my joy
maybe in slidell i'll find my joy
maybe in slidell i'll find my joy
(second instrumental break)
i don't want you anymore
cause you took my joy
i don't want you anymore
you took my joy
you took my joy
i want it back
you took my joy
i want it back
you took my joy
i want it back
you took my
i want it back
(third & last instrumental break -- slows down)
i'm gonna go to west memphis
i'm gonna go to slidell.
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Well, I don't know about the Memphis and Slidell part. That's hardly the first place I'd start looking. But going west to the coast? the sea shore? Or maybe someone elses story? How faithless is that?
But as much as I feel this way about it at the moment, I also know that there is only one to be blamed for taking my Joy and only one place to go looking for it. Afterall, the story world is really just a topological map of my psyche. Thus it is my self I'm having this conversation with. As always.
So I suppose the answer is to go deeper not run off looking in all the misdirections as every time before.
1 tell me a story:
Sometimes the joy of things wears off, and you have to go searching for the spark that made you find joy and passion. You lose it when you spend too much time focusing on it, and not balancing it out with the other things that bring you joy. I've done that, I get obsessive about something or someone and I go off, until I get so sick of it, that I become unhappy and stupid. When in reality, I should take a break, and do the other million things that I enjoy doing. Writing is your joy, but you also have many other enjoyable things you like doing it. It is ok to go off and do them, then come back and write your story again. You are meant to write it, it is your destiny, your dream, and your passion. Just don't let it go, but take the needed break and come back to it. Don't take too long of a break, I like to see you finish it and publish it...
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