[Aubrey:] I want something more than this, I've given all I can give, Show me the way, Won't you show me the way, [D. Woods:] I just wanna feel I belong, It's a nice song listening to, it's all about growing up and becoming the adult that we have to be.
If we close our eyes, we'll maybe realize there's more to life than what we have known. Is anybody listening To the song that I sing? Is there anybody listening?
Read between the lines, But at the same time I’m grateful that I have this opportunity to like sit here and talk to you and tell a little bit of my story. “So I recorded the vocals for it four days before … The lyrics took on a totally different meaning.”“I feel like I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long. I just found a place out here in LA that like accepts me for who I am, no matter who I love.
“You kind of listen back to it and you kind of think, how did nobody listen to this song and think, ‘Let’s help this girl.’ I even think that I was recording it in a state of mind where I felt like I was okay, but clearly I wasn’t. And I even listened back to it and I’m like, ‘Gosh, I wish I could go back in time and help that version of myself.’ ” is a song by progressive metal band Queensrÿche appearing as the last track on their 1990 album Empire. And it’s only telling a fraction of my story, but it’s still a little bit, and it’s enough to kind of show the world where I’ve been.”“I think it’s taken me a long time to be able to even get this far, which is performing a song that’s so vulnerable to me on a stage in front of all my peers and coworkers and even people that I look up to,” she said. “That’s kind of nerve-wracking to think about. And is there anybody who cares, Life's unfair, its so unfair. “I shied away from church for many years. Is there anyone that sees what's going on? What's behind the words--images they know will please us? Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
And it’s going to be hard not to like go onstage and just like word vomit everything,” Lovato said. Is there anyone who smiles without a mask? Religion, she said, played a big part in that road to recovery as she found a place to practice faith.The Disney alum said listening to the new song now makes her believe it was a “cry for help.”“I tried to talk to my piano / I tried to talk to my guitar / I tried to talk to my imagination / Confided into alcohol / I tried and tried and tried more,” she sang.
“Like I just want to go up there and tell my story.
I feel stupid when I sing Nobody's listening to me Nobody's listening I talk to shooting stars But they always get it wrong I feel stupid when I pray So, why am I praying anyway? [Verse 2] When the cowards turn to soldiers, To solve all their problems I wonder what I’m supposed to believe And the news reporters set the plane To the people who don’t think the same Does anyone even know who I am?
I'll take what's real.
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom There's a warm wind from the south Hoist the sail and we'll be gone By morning, this will all seem like a dream And if I don't return to sing the song, maybe just as well I've seen the news and there's not much I can do alone Is there anybody listening? Is anybody listening To the song that I sing? And I … I didn’t feel welcome. What's behind the words--images they know will please us?
And if I don't return to sing the song Maybe just as well I've seen the news and there's Not much I can do...alone Is there anybody listening?
"Anybody Listening?"