When you read the word baggage, you might immediately think of holiday. However, baggage can also refer to what you carry around emotionally. This Soul Music post includes a song describing what could happen dealing with your emotional baggage in an unhealthy way…
Diverse luggage
The video of the song Baggage by Chris Webby ft. Ren is pretty self explanatory. The baggage, the people in it carry around, causing them to end up in the purgatory pub, is diverse. Many of you may not even share such experiences, don’t understand the choices made…
However, life has a way to stuff our personal bags with tough ordeals, which will effect you emotionally.
The loss of a job, a house, a friend or family member, physical or mental abuse, bullying, war… Examples of traumatic events which will fill up a person’s bag with emotional baggage. Chris and Ren have written lyrics in a way you can either relate to, or, hopefully, understand it is not always that easy to choose to deal with such trauma in a healthy way.
Whether you’ve already chosen an unhealthy path to deal with your trauma or not, I hope you do seek help in case you need support in improving your mental health. Connect with someone you trust, or look for an organization that resonates with you. Per example; HeartSupport, a non-profit music-based community support for your mental health.
Not ready to reach out to someone yet? Don’t hesitate to surf around my virtual home, on which I hope to inspire you to Connect to Life, Others, Yourself (again). It might feel like you are, however, you are not alone. We all have to start over at times, some more often. As many times as it may take, you, me, we all are worth it.
Baggage - Chris Webby ft. Ren
Lyrics
Falling by the wayside with these habits I keep shaking
New jeans with the same old baggie in my pocket
Trying to find the way but ain’t no way back where I’ve gone
New me with the same old baggage in my closet
Yeah, yeah
Can’t save me y’all, they say I’m lost
I can’t even start to count all of the days I’ve lost
After nights of losing count of all the drinks I bought
Self-medicating just to get the weight all off
Only starts with a shot then it’s four in a row
Next thing you in the bathroom scoring some blow
See it is what it is and it’s all that I know
But I’m getting to a fork in the road
I know the way it’s been, I take it in
Feel I gotta start learning to pray again
I try to wash away the sins
But they like tattoos on my skin
I’ve been sitting here scrubbing ’em
Tryna cover ’em but I’m stuck with ’em
Struggling, drunk and stumbling, while I’m juggling
Habits that are both the cause and the cure of my suffering
I know it’s becoming a little troubling
Falling by the wayside with these habits I keep shaking
New jeans with the same old baggie in my pocket, yeah
Trying to find the way but ain’t no way back where I’ve gone
New me with the same old baggage in my closet
Yeah, yeah
Bloody red murder, they whisper and murmur
How did Ren get here? Nature or nurture
I nurture my nature, divine misbehavior
Reaching for a bottle, thought the spirit was my savior
Chopping on my brain cells when I’m reaching for the pot
But pots the only shot I got to stop this ticking clock (Tick, tick)
Counting down the minutes till that something in me pops
And resurrects a disconnect that helps me self-destruct
When I’m down on my luck
Wasted, braindead, vacant, faded
(I get) wasted (to get) braindead
(Mind so) vacant, (I’m so) faded
(All the time) wasted, (another line) braindead
(Feeling so) vacant, (leaving I’m) faded
Complicated, in-house patient
Wasted, brain-dead, vacant, faded
Tripping with my back against the wall
Caught inside a rising tide, I fall
Taken by the madness of it all
I’m falling
Falling by the wayside with these habits I keep shaking
New jeans with the same old baggie in my pocket, yeah
Trying to find the way but ain’t no way back where I’ve gone
New me with the same old baggage in my closet
Yeah, yeah
Trying to find the way but ain’t no way back where I’ve gone
New me with the same old baggage in my closet
More info
website Chris Webby
website Ren
Soul Connection
There are many ways to Boost Your Soul and music is a fantastic one. There are a variety of genres you can listen to, even Soul Music is a genre in itself. To me, music is also a way to Connect with your Soul. A tool to help you go through emotions and acknowledge them. Depending on your mood, there will be always a piece of art that goes along with it. What I love most about music is how it can Connect people.
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