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By Larissa Zutter

The words that you write They catch me in the morning light The lines that I read oh they move me We tucked it inside aura so fine Oh it helps me to find what I need Shells Mighty Oaks

A special thanks to all the people who have inspired and helped me throughout the process of creating this book and my music The things you wil see are a collaboration of my lyrics lyrics of other artists and photos taken by my family friends and myself March 2016

I hope someone loses themselves in my music and the thoughts it conveys I hope someone finds themselves in it But most of all I hope that someone finds joy in the songs and lyrics I write just as I have in those of others Larissa

There was a day when I was free not a care that I could see So good I barely could believe that it was happening Oh take me back again When I was sixteen with an open heart windows down in a beat up car When I was dumb and the world was young and she was beautiful Beautiful Ben Rector

The Pain of Losing Tell me the truth With nothing else Tell me where I am Tell me where I stand No need to rephrase What you mean to say Straight up or not at all One night was all it took For me to fall into you I stashed it all away To avoid the pain of losing you I thought I wrote A part of you But you seem to have Erased that too I wanna go back to the impromptu Way we were before I left my heart behind And what we cannot have is what we crave But you had all of me And still wanted more One night was all it took For me to fall into you I stashed it all away To avoid the pain of losing you

Little do you know I m still haunted by the memories Little do you know I m trying to pick myself up Piece by piece Little do you know I need a little more time Little Do You Know Alex and Sierra

Step away Getting away is the hardest part Invisible to anyone who hadn t seen it before But staying away is easier said than done But I saw every little piece The memories of which you re the best part They gleamed and held on to the heart on Are the memories I fear the most my sleeve I took a step back From the broken glass I wore my shoes In order to get away from you For I knew If the glass cut through There would be nothing left for me to do Getting away is the hardest part But staying away is easier said than done The memories of which you re the best part Are the memories I fear the most Getting away is the hardest part But staying away is easier said than done Getting away is the hardest part The memories of which you re the best part But staying away is easier said than done Are the memories I fear the most The memories of which you re the best part Are the memories I fear the most The glass was spread All across the floor

The pain made its way to the core And inside you find you re ripped and torn Heartbreak and lonely days It s how it s been with you and me At times you have a choice to make But sometimes the right one is hard to take Doubt of mine it starts to grow And you won t let the small things go Now you guess blame and play your games You wanna push me far away Good Lord knows how I ve tried To keep this dream of us alive Time has proven it too hard So be on your way I m no longer yours Cold Unknown Mighty Oaks

Unfinished Roads Where do we start When we don t even know What it was we ended And how do we stop Something we don t Even remember starting And it gets hard sometimes I don t know where to go Or which unfinished road I should follow And it gets hard sometimes I ve got so much to say But there s too many words In my way It hurts more than I l ever admit But I thought that We would make it You l never see What it means To me to be free And it gets hard sometimes I don t know where to go Or which unfinished road I should follow And it gets hard sometimes I ve got so much to say But there s too many words In my way Just let me be me Don t blow out the fires Don t rewrite the poems That are within me Just let me be me Don t rewrite the poems Don t blow out the fires That are within me And it gets hard sometimes I don t know where to go Or which unfinished road I should follow And it gets hard sometimes I ve got so much to say But there s too many words In my way But where do we start When we don t even know What it was we ended And how do we stop Something we don t Even remember starting

Changing Colors Seaside nights The memories ignite Of daytime fright Despite the delight The pines changed their colors And I changed my mind You stayed stubborn And left me behind Promises linger On my middle finger My love hasn t simmered At all The pines changed their colors And I changed my mind You stayed stubborn And left me behind When I look at you all that Is the boy you used The man standing in front He s not what he used I see to be of me to be The boy s been replaced by someone new And I don t like what he s turned into The man standing in front of me He s not what he used to be The boy s been replaced by someone new And I don t like what he s turned into The man standing in front of me He s not what he used to be The pines changed their colors And I changed my mind You stayed stubborn And left me to die

I lost my faith in you darling It s gone away In time It s got a way to turn my feelings into pain picture the mighty oaks you are what you listen to For last year s words belong to last year s language and next year s words await another voice And to make an end is to make a new beginning T S Elliot Little Gidding

Our Song I listened to our song I played it all night long I didn t know how to feel But I cried myself to sleep I thought of you and the boy I once knew He wasn t the man I ran into We dipped our toes in the memories And they came back to haunt me Funny how losing you Made me lose my favorite tune What used to make me smile Now only makes me cry I listened to our song Played it all night all I didn t know how to feel But I cried myself to sleep But I know there wil be other songs To cry about that much is sure Cuz every song comes to an end Just like every love has a beginning Funny how losing you Made me lose my favorite tune What used to make me smile Now only makes me cry But I know there wil be other songs It all started with a simple melody We loved it just as much as each others touch To cry about that much is sure Cuz every song comes to an end I wanted to lye with you in this beautiful tune Drown in the sea of this beautiful melody Just like every love has a beginning But I know there wil be other songs To cry about that much is sure Cuz every song comes to an end Just like every love has a beginning

The dust cloud has settled and my eyes are clear But sometimes in dreams of impact I still hear Miss Atomic Bomb The Killers

But You Did Memories like fires in my mind And feelings like wood get left behind Flowers crushed underneath the feet Of our memories and our feelings The fire in my mind you left behind Wasn t all that kind to my mind The fire that you left open It raged on for days They say everything happens At the wrong time Right person wrong place Wrong state of mind The dust may have settled But my eyes aren t clear at all And the ashes they help me To move on But the fire in my mind you left behind Wasn t all that kind to my mind The fire that you left open It raged on for days But the fire in my mind you left behind Wasn t all kind Isn t a friend of mine And I know that you Never meant to hurt me But the fire in my mind you left behind But you did Wasn t all kind Isn t a friend of mine And I know that you Never meant to hurt me But you did

Ghost of you Turn my back to the door Feel so much better now Don t even try anymore Nothing left to lose There s a voice that s in the air Saying don t look back nowhere There s a voice that s always there I m breathing in breathing out Ain t that what it s all about Living life crazy loud Like I have the right to No more words in my mouth Nothing left to figure out But I don t think I ll ever break through the ghost of you And I ll never be quite the same As I was before this Part of you still remains Though it s out of focus You re just somewhere that I ve been And I won t go back again You re just somewhere that I ve been I m breathing in breathing out Ain t that what it s all about Living life crazy loud Like I have the right to No more words in my mouth Nothing left to figure out I m breathing in breathing out Ain t that what it s all about Living life crazy loud Like I have the right to No more words in my mouth Nothing left to figure out But I don t think I ll ever break through the ghost of you

Maybe somewhere further Down the line And I will meet you there Sometime in the future We can share our stories When we won t care About all of our mistakes Our failures and our glories But until that day comes along I ll keep on moving on Moving On Kodaline

Leaving The act of leaving something behind and turning all involved leaves in the process In the course of a lifetime we wil leave multiple things behind it is something we should embrace with open arms for it is what allows us to take memories with us that do not hurt It allows us to enjoy what we have experienced We can only hope that others are able to turn a leaf and enjoy the memories with us instead of drowning in them or stashing them in the darkest corner of their minds Leaving does not mean forgetting it means accepting and embracing our past and the impossibilty of changing it