Storyteller

Music and lyrics by Catalina Jimenez Gomez
2020

Verse 1
“Are you a storyteller?”
Ted asked her that afternoon
She’d been lost for a while trying to figure life out
Trying to break from old patterns that had built her down

Verse 2
Went on living day by day
But always thinking ’bout three months from then
Read up on some good old Fitzgerald and Marquez
And put herself out there

Chorus
She found life is just stories we tell
To ourselves, to each other, to the wishing well
Everyone is writing to survive, to live, or just pretend
Words might be the ones to pick you up again

Verse 3
Kept falling every day for the same wrong man
Who thought love was just a matter of choice
Five years of friendship lost to silence and fears
And a cynical mind to house them all

Verse 4
Went on making art without expecting a thing
Though it didn’t make a difference if she died or she lived
Felt like change was overdue now
And remembered words from a few moons back

Chorus
That life is just stories we tell
To ourselves, to each other, to the wishing well
Everyone is writing to survive, to live, or just pretend
Words might be the ones to pick you up again

Bridge
Little did Ted know he had made such a difference
In how she thinks of those who like to dance in rain
Sometimes they look up and find a reason for what left them behind
To make sense out of it with time

Chorus
Because life is just stories we tell
To ourselves, to each other, to the wishing well
Everyone is writing to survive, to live, or just pretend
Words might be the ones to pick you up again