Remember Why (Original Song)

This is an original song I wrote in graduate school about remembering why you're striving for a goal when it's easy to lose sight of why you started in the first place.

This is not intended to be a professional piece and the quality is reflective of my limited experience with sound and video recording/editing.

Lyrics:
It starts with a dream, you work hard til you make it  
Late nights and fantasies, they fill your head and shake it 
You won’t stop until you see, the finish line ahead 
But each time you stop to breathe, it turns into a dead end   

You say to yourself why don’t you give up? 
And that voice in your head replies with a song 
It says when times get hard just follow your heart 
Don’t think about it too much and stay true to who you are

So, hold onto yourself and don’t let go   
No matter how deep in you’re in the storm  
Remember why you chose this path  
Break a leg and don’t look back  
Through this marathon, keep moving on 

You get to the top and you think that it’s over 
All those times you’ve had to show you’ve worked and you’ve earned it 
But you climb up to that peak, and there’s another point ahead  
You’re too tired and you’re weak, and you just want your bed 

You say to yourself, let’s take a big break 
And that voice in your head keeps you wide-awake 
It says when times get hard just follow your heart 
Don’t think about it too much and stay true to who you are

So, hold onto yourself and don’t let go   
No matter how deep in you’re in the storm  
Remember why you chose this path  
Break a leg and don’t look back  
Through this marathon, keep moving on 

Oh there will be lots of reasons to change you
There will be so many easy ways out                  
They’ll look enticing and they’ll tempt you          
The only way to win is to stay true to who you are

So, hold onto yourself and don’t let go   
No matter how deep in you’re in the storm  
Remember why you chose this path  
Break a leg and don’t look back  
Through this marathon, keep moving on 

So, hold onto yourself and don’t let go   
No matter how deep in you’re in the storm  
Remember why you chose this path  
Break a leg and don’t look back  
Through this marathon, keep moving on, keep moving on, keep moving on