Another Way ...

Описание: This song "Another Way," shares how our automatic survival system sounds...always on alert for danger, always ready to protect. I am grateful for this system, yet it is not the only one we can use. There is another system, a guiding system, that must be installed through awareness. Installing it follows the BIG acronym: Build Awareness, Investigate Meaning, and Generate Choice. This song invites listeners to recognize their survival system and awaken to another way of living, one rooted in connection and growth.


[Verse 1]
She shouldn’t do that
He always makes me clean it up
Nobody listens
Why does this keep happening to me

It’s always my fault
I can’t trust anyone
I don’t have time
Don’t get in my way
Don’t ask me to care

[Verse 2]
These thoughts surround me like walls
Every door becomes a fight
Every silence feels like exile
I reach for love
But the words I carry
Push it farther away

[Verse 3]
These are the sounds of survival
The hammer in my hand that sees only nails
The pounding in my chest that tells me to defend
The old patterns that whisper
You’re right, they’re wrong
You’re alone
Protect yourself

[Verse 4]
But somewhere in me
Is a gentler rhythm
A breath, a pause
A question that waits to be asked
What if there is more than defense
What if there is space for belonging

There is another system
It does not come built-in
It is installed through awareness
Through slowing down
Through asking the questions we were told not to ask

[Chorus]
Build awareness
What am I feeling, what am I believing

Investigate meaning
Where did this lens come from
What story is shaping what I see

Generate choice
A new breath, a new path
A way to connect instead of divide


I am not broken
I am not defective
These patterns were only the guides I knew
But there is another way to live
A way that grows me
A way that connects me
A way that lets me thrive