Music Monday: Maps...to the Future

I'm still in recovery mode from ConCarolinas this past weekend. What a great experience! What that means is that my Music Monday post is late...and this song is very appropriate to how I'm feeling after that experience. "This is the way back home..." This weekend was the way back home to who I am when I'm not stressed out, when I'm a writer, when I can chat with someone in my second language...it was good for my soul, and while I had my doubts I really proud of myself for going. 
I was on a panel about the songs we use in our writing, and this one also speaks to me about my Orana Chronicles characters and their journeys...especially one very special Clawsharp. No spoilers, though...at least not yet.

So please enjoy Ireland's Eurovision entry for 2021 (did you really think I'd be over that so soon? Please, ask my roommates from this weekend how many times I mentioned watching the Fire Saga movie or just a rerun of Eurovision!), Maps by Lesley Roy.


Mapsby Lesley Roy
I'm gonna let down all the armorLet out the power that I've been hidingNot afraid of the monsters, of the nightmaresThat I've been fighting
Easy to run, harder to stayFinding colours in the greyThought I was done, but I got it wrongI fell twice, I'm twice as strong
I've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many facesOnly one way to goThis is the way back homeI've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many facesOnly one way to goThis is the way back home
I had to take all of the long waysAll of the wrong ways'Cause I couldn't seeAll the signs, all the mistakesPointing one way to get back to me
Easy to run, harder to stayFinding colours in the greyThought I was done, but I got it wrongI fell twice, I'm twice as strong
I've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many facesOnly one way to goThis is the way back homeI've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many facesOnly one way to goThis is the way back home
My soul is a map, my heart is a compassI am the roadThere's only one way to goThis is the way back home
My soul is a map, my heart is a compassI am the roadThere's only one way to goThis is the way back home
I've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many facesOnly one way to goThis is the way back homeI've been searching all the wrong placesI've been trying too many faces (I've been trying)Only one way to goThis is the way back home