Open Mic

(I wish)

I wish I would of known that the only place to find happiness is within your self.

I wish I would of known that when you gossip and lie and act like someone your not, you forget who you really are.

I wish I never would of lied to the people I love.

I wish I would of forgiven more freely.

I wish I wouldn’t of gotten jealous.

I wish I would of never snuck out of my house.

I wish I would of listened in Sunday school when teachers told me to surround myself with good people.

I wish I would of believed my parents.

I wish someone would of told me that dating beautiful boys, with hot jeans, good hair, and high social status.. isn’t the way to live your fairy tale.

I wish Taylor Swift and Cinderella Story didn’t exist so I never even would of believed in fairy tales.

I wish someone would of told 60 percent of the girls I know, that acting ditzy, slutty, and stupid isn’t cute, or the way to get the attention you’re seeking.

I wish someone would have told me that high school boys don’t care about who you are, they care about what you’ll do.

I wish someone would of told me to not waste anytime impressing people.

That fitting in is overrated, and that standing out is what makes you cool.

That the most put together people on the outside are the most messed up on the inside.

That trying to fit in is impossible and trying to keep up with the gossip is exhausting and ruins your reputation.

I wish someone would of told me that my friends were going to change.

I wish someone would of told me to get a job

I wish someone would of told me that my mom was going to be the one person who always understood and loved me no matter what, and to not ever talk back to or disrespect her.

 I wish someone would have told me, that even though my mom is amazing, I wasn’t expected to be just like her.

I wish someone would of told me that people were going to betray me and talk bad about me behind my back.

I wish someone would of warned me about drinking and drugs.

I wish someone would of told me that some of the people I cared about were going to get very involved in them

I wish I would of known to stay away from those 5 people.

I wish someone would have told me to make build more best friendships instead of a billion acquaintances.

And that who my best friend was, was going to change a lot.

I wish someone would of told me life goes on after a broken heart

I wish I would have known everyone felt the same way as me sophomore year… lonely and insecure.

I wish someone would have told me to work harder at dance and practice the piano.

I wish someone would of told me to save my money when I was younger.

I wish someone would of told me that cheer wasn’t life, or who I was.

I wish someone would of told me to burry myself in books, and spend more time studying, and that the people who are “nerdy” and always go to class end up successful and happy.

I wish someone would have told me to take more AP classes

I wish someone would have told me not to judge people, or hold grudges, all it did was make me miserable.

I wish someone would of told me the social scene isn’t that great, and to be with exactly who I wanted every weekend, and do whatever I wanted, even if that was stay at home and sleep.

I wish someone would of told me that growing up is real, that my metabolism was going to slow down, that my limbs were gonna start aching at freaking age 16, that seminary was important and make ups completely suck.

That going to attendance school isn’t fun.. at all.

I wish someone would of told me that id be leaving high school with so many regrets.

And a lot of times, I wish I could just start over. 

I Need A Hero

ELF.

The Ordinary World - Buddy lives in the North Pole. He works as an ordinary elf, making shoes and cookies and toys. But he's always felt different than the others. 

The Call to Adventure - One day, Buddy's "dad", Papa Elf, breaks the news to him that he isn't his real dad, and that Buddy's biological dad works in a big building in New York City.

Refusal of the Call - Buddy is reluctant to leave the North Pole, and he isn't sure if he's ready to journey out of the Pole alone.

Meeting the Mentor - As Buddy is contemplating what to do, Leon the Snowman gives Buddy some advice.
"Of course you're not an elf, you're six foot three and had a beard since you were sixteen." After Buddy comes to the reality of his situation, he makes his decision. 

Crossing the Threshold - "..the Candy Cane Forest, through the Sea of Swirly Twirly Gumdrops, then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel."

Test, Allies, Enemies - Buddy encounters many people and many situations throughout his time in New York. He is hit by a bus, forced to sleep in a department store window, eats gum off the street, etc. But, along the way he meets his allies. Such as Emily and Michael, and most importantly Jovie, his love interest. But, along with allies, come enemies. The store manager being one, but the main enemy of the movie...is Buddy's dad. 

Approach to the Inmost Cave - Buddy is taken in by his new family, and while there, he is determined to mend his relationship with his father. 

The Ordeal - Buddy does everything he can to create love between him and his father. He is kind and sweet to everyone around him. But, because he is so naive, he ends up ruining one of Walter's biggest meetings. After this, Walter wants nothing to do with his son. 

Reward - While Buddy is trying to get back to the North Pole, he notices Santa's sleigh has crashed in Central Park. Buddy ends up saving the sleigh, through his Christmas spirit. Buddy is a hero to the city, and he even gets Walter to join in the cause. Oh, he gets the girl too. 

The Road Back - Buddy heads back to the North Pole with Jovie, and they are loved by everyone there. 

The Resurrection - ...?

Return With Elixir - Is him in all of his glory in love with Jovie. 

Shake the Dust (STAND UP)

This ones for the wanna bees. For the wanna bees, and the pretenders. This is for the girls, who kiss a lot of boys, hoping for a glimpse of some love and attention. This is for the freshman boys scared to change in the locker room. This is for every single one of my friends.. Stand up. This is for the people who HAD a dream. This is for the boys who drink to avoid their problems, and please their friends. This is for the girls with perfect mothers. This ones for the 24 year olds with high school girlfriends. This is for the 27 year old ex quarter backs that still go to their ex high school games. This is for the read-heads. This one's for the rich kids who buy everyones lunch. This ones for the girl who wears fake true religions. This one's for the kids in AP classes. This one's for the anorexics. This is for the girl who never got asked to a boy's choice dance. This one's for the girls who show cleavage, and the boys who pretend to like it. This one's for the lovers who's love, is loving someone else. This one's for the pretenders..
Stand up.
Stand up for what you believe in. Stand up and be who you are. Stop living life how someone else wants or expects you to live it. There's always gonna be someone you feel like is better than you. But spending life wishing you were someone else is a waste of time. Learn to appreciate yourself, and look for all the good qualities you do have, the things you do like about yourself, and focus on those. You'll never be someone else. You'll never be successful giving up your dreams. You'll never impress anyone by following the crowd. You'll never escape your problems by hiding from them temporarily.
You'll never be happy pretending.
So, Stand up.

Gandhi

I keep forgetting to stay on top of things. To prioritize my day and get everything done I need to. To do my homework, be nice to my mom, work out, eat good, and practice developing my talents. Maybe if I would of practiced more i wouldn't be so disappointed now.. I know I wouldn't be. I should of gone pro. I should of dedicated myself completely to the one thing I love the most. I don't have much natural talent in it at all. But I don't think that matters. I think in life if a person completely dedicates there life to something and does everything possible to achieve a certain goal, they can do it. What you can and can't do is all mental. If you think confidence, you will execute confidence and you can and will accomplish anything you want to. When will we own ourselves completely? When we have this confidence. When we trust and believe in ourselves enough to go after exactly what we want. When we don't let anyone tell us no, nor are we afraid to tell anyone else no or stick up for what we believe in. We then have found ourselves and own ourselves completely. I wish I would have found this confidence a long time ago, gone pro, and gone 100% after my dreams. I have been let down hugely recently, and realized that I have not been reaching my full potential. But this doesn't end tonight. Because of this let down, I have learned and decided EXACTLY what i want and WILL gain the confidence to go after it and achieve it. Then, I will be pro. And I will own myself completely.

Sixers

Blurbs

White Houses (Vanessa Carlton)
Vanessa, Katie, Anna, Carl, and Tanner are best friends. They're outsiders to the popular crowd, nobodies. It's summertime and they're sitting around in Carl's white tree house with nothing to do. None of them have ever kissed and they're all talking about what it would be like. They decide to play a little game. Vanessa is taken advantage of. It ruins her forever.

Letter To Me (Brad Paisley)
Brad is old and looking back on his life regretting the silly decisions he made when he was a teen. All the drinking and partying he did trying to avoid what he thought was such a miserable life. He wishes he could of seen into the future to what a great life he could have and how great he would turn out to be. Tell himself how little things like girlfriends, troubles with parents and friends actually mattered. I think we all wish we could write letters to ourselves at points in our lives where we made mistakes i order to stop ourselves from making the wrong ones. This song is all about looking back.

What Can I Say (Carrie Underwood)
Carrie and Thomas were so in love. They started out best friends then fell for each other and dated for 7 months. They had an easy breakup and they both pretended to be fine. But she wasn't, not at all. And because of this she didn't know how to act around him. She wanted so badly to be normal and call him but things had just reached such an awkward point in their relationship, she couldn't bring herself to do it. She continues on missing him, not knowing what to do or what to say.

Changed Man (Chris Brown)
Chris was a bad boy. He had low self esteem and because he hung out with the wrong crowd was constantly giving in to peer pressure. One day he met Katie.. and everything changed. He fell in love for the first time. Katie saw the good in Chris, and didn't know much or the seriousness of his past. They were together, but Chris continued to hang out with his friends. Behind Katie's back Chris made the same stupid mistakes, until one day Katie caught him and broke up with him. It was so hard on both of them and Chris promised that if he could have another chance he would do any and everything to change so that he could be good enough to deserve her again.

I'll Walk (Bucky Covington)
This song is a sad story of acting out of anger, and looking back realizing how unimportant it was and regretting how mad you got. Bucky and Austin were dating and had plans to be married right after high school. The night of their senior prom they had a huge fight on the way home, Bucky pulled over and Austin jumped out saying she'd walk home. On her walk home she was hit by a car! Hearing the news Bucky felt terrible and when he got to the hospital and realized she was paralyzed he asked her to marry him. And he did. Even though she now had that problem he loved her enough to want to help her through that for the rest of both of their lives. However Bucky will always look back wishing he could of stopped their fighting and apologized the night of prom and Austin would still have her legs.

Songs with Stories

Song Title: Love Me, Collin Raye
Http://www.lyrics007.com/Collin%20Raye%20Lyrics/Love%20Me%20Lyrics.html

Characters: Grandson, Grandpa, and Grandma who is dying

Setting: In the doorway of the church where the boy and his grandpa went to pray, as his grandma was about to pass away. Grandpa pulled out a letter that his wife wrote him a long time ago

Plot: The letter refers to the story of their love. Growing up the boys grandparents were so in love, but her parents did not approve. They wanted to be together so badly, so they made a plan to run away together and get married. The letter was a note that Grandma left on a tree where they were supposed to meet. It said to wait for her and she'd find a way to get there no matter what and that she loved him. We don't know the rest of the story of how they actually did get married, but you know in the song that they definitely got married because their grandson is singing the song.

Conflict: The conflict in the story of these two love birds is the fact that her parents didn't like him and wouldn't let them be together.

Theme: True love can over come any obstacle. You can tell in this song how hard it was to be together, but they did it. You can also see how much Grandpa loves his wife with the fact that he still has her letter saved.


Song Title: Haunted, Taylor Swift
Http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/taylor-swift-lyrics/haunted-lyrics.html
Characters: A girl in love with her ex boyfriend, the ex boyfriend that doesn't care anymore, the new boyfriend who loves the girl, but isn't enough for her.

Setting: This song doesn't really set up a specific place. I picture a girl crying alone in her room, thinking about sending this boy that she misses so much. Looking through old pictures, reading old texts and notes, and just wondering what possibly happened to them.

Plot: The two people, boy and the girl, were best best friends. One day they started having feelings, and the boy kissed the girl. They had such a long past that every move they made was a big risk. Then one day the boy decided he didn't want a relationship or anything but friends anymore. They tried, but the "fragile line" was broken and things couldn't go back to normal. The girl who didn't think she loved this boy so much, finally realized it when she couldn't have him anymore. Every boy she then tried to date, just couldn't fill the shoes. She got all kinds of crazy ideas in her head that something more was there, and she waited around for him to want her back, but he never did.

Conflict: Two best friends fell in love, and then didn't know how to go back to just friends, because there was still strong feelings on one side.

Theme: When you end any kind of relationship, there can't be friendship that follows. This is just because there is always one person that is hurt. And even if they fake it, one side is always still sad with feelings.