Find Your Freedom In The Music

Visual Artist and Photographer 📸 25

[monasteremort]

[lzzyhaleofficial]

The power of music and lyrics for Mental Health.

The power of music and lyrics for Mental Health.

I am a successful musician, I am a strong woman, and I am a joyous person. I love my life, my relationships and what I do. I’m proud of both my accomplishments and the mistakes I’ve made. I am the sum of both my dark and light. And I wouldn’t change a thing, I wouldn’t pave over one bump on this highway.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t have bad days and sad days. It doesn’t mean that I like myself all the time. It doesn’t mean that I’m not human.

I practice distance with my vices, and I’m very good at separating who I am as a person, versus what I represent on stage. And most importantly...

I do not concern myself with other people’s opinions of me, be it good or bad. You can love me, hate me, follow me, unfollow me. It doesn’t make a difference to me. All that truly matters is what I think of me. Am I the person that I want to be? Do I like me?

I’m telling all of you this because I think it’s important for us to be reminded that we are the same. I face the same wars with the mirror that you do.

And I’d like to share with you what I do to prepare and win those wars everyday.

Sometimes, inside my head, my thoughts are like white noise. It’s scrambled, and hard to decifer which voices and feelings are really mine, and which are just the crazies talking.

There’s a queen beast inside of me, she sounds like me, but is an “upside down” version of me. Her whispers, are like a poisonous gas, seeping under locked doors, and cracks in the walls that I try to build around her.

I keep all of my demons close... I address all of them directly... everyday.

Because if I don’t, I start to believe the lies they spin.

The beast and her minions...They are such sad, stupid, desperate creatures. They are starving...and they feed on my anger, sadness, confusion and negativity.

They tell me stories in soft, false sympathetic tones. They try to convince me that I am nothing, that I don’t matter, that my life is not my own, and that I do not deserve the love and light that I have found in my life. They like to convince me that I do not belong, taking such delight in watching me spiral out and down. Until I feel like nothing and am pushed close enough to the edge to feel the wind in my face from below. My beast sings songs of relief...what a relief it would be, just to give in...to jump...it would be so easy.

But I am armed.

One of the most powerful weapons in my arsenal. Is my pen and paper. It helps me decifer what’s real and what’s not.

Everyday, I will write in my notebooks.

The physical act of writing my thoughts down onto paper, puts me in control.

It helps me cut through the white noise in my head. And As I read back through the manic chicken scratch...the logic-versus-crazy separates, and I am able to see what really matters.

The next step in my process is to comb back through my notebook, I will circle phrases and thoughts that speak my truth.

Next...

I will take my truth, pick up a guitar, or sit at a piano...and turn it into a song.

Not only does the act of creation distract me from getting sucked and swallowed into a downward spiral, but it gives me power over those dark force’s. By turning something destructive into something beautiful, I feel cleansed, and full of purpose. I have won the battle for another day.

So, you can imagine what a wonderful gift it is to hear stories from all of you about how my words have changed YOUR life.

It’s the FINISHING MOVE.

I think about that on stage sometimes. Sometimes I’m fighting back happy tears, remembering the battle it took to get here, to sing this song for you. As I sing onstage for you...I am in a moment where I can watch the power of music in action. I’m observing in real time, that if I hadn’t gone through the darkness, addressed it, beat it into submission, and built it up into something that can inspire and empower others... Maybe some of you would still be lost in the fog. Maybe I wouldn’t be here.

Yet, here we are in this one moment in time...singing together. Finding our peace, celebrating our victories.

My dear Freaks, we are All in this life standing side by side. And we have the power to fend off the Black Vultures circling around us. Those creatures do not know how mighty we are together!

And maybe the Beast and her minions will never really go away for good... but that doesn’t matter...let em all hang around and watch.

Because We will continue to pick each other up when we fall, and remind each other that we have the strength to battle them when things get tough. We will encourage each other and we will never give up on one another.

That is what music means to me. It’s not a career, or a genre, or a competition, or a means to make money or achieve fame. It is a universal language. It is connection. It is Love.

And I love all of you madly!

#BlackVultures #RaiseYourHorns #musicsaves #Halestorm #LzzyHale

[freakhalestorm]

Photo taken by Joe hottinger.

[gothamstreetcat]

“Our Song “Chemicals” was written in homage to those we’ve lost and all of us struggling with mental illness. In this song I dip into the personal insanity that goes on inside your head. Because sometimes you feel like you are drowning in the whisperings of your own mind, like you are the Only One at war with your impending darkness. But really, we are all in this together. We are all battling one day at a time. We, The fighters… We are the majority. So I made the chorus an anthem, an epiphany that we are all the same, and most everyone you meet has been touched by mental illness. Let’s lift each other up. Raise Your Horns!” - Lzzy

[dreamingofmermaids-blog]

[lesliasonsdemarieantoinette]

Lady Gaga by Hedi Slimane 

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

Halestorm | Chemicals [official audio]

[lovebizarreoddities]

[arcusxx]

[likamartini]

[ooevilynoo]

🌙🐉

[pierlerett]

My cross dressing streak continues

[lzzyhaleofficial]

Now That You’re Gone (Anthem) lyrics

Now that you’re Gone (Anthem)

I can stay up all night I can do what I want

I can’t party with strangers I can play my music loud

I can kiss a girl and wear my boots to bed

And drink every-fucking-thing that I can fit in my head

And these are a few of the things I can do

Now that you’re gone, now that your gone

I don’t have to listen to you complain, I don’t have that awful buzzing going on in my brain

I don’t have to pretend to be something I’m not

Cuz I’m a nasty little freak and I like it a lot

And the best thing of all, I feel seven feet tall

Now that you’re gone, now that you’re gone

Oh yea, my life is so much better without you

You can suck me, I don’t care if I ever see you again

No

Ow!!

Go!

(Solo)

Oh yea, my life is so much better without you

You can suck me, I don’t care if I ever see you again

No way!!

Ow!!

“Ahem, repeat after me..

I pledge allegiance ( I pledge allegiance)

To the united state ( to the united state)

Of Lzzy-Fuckin’ Hale ( of Lzzy fuckin’ Hale)

And whatever Lzzy wants, Lzzy gets

Forever and ever… Amen”

You can’t take my money, you can’t give me any hell

You can’t make me feel guilty for just being myself

You can’t steal my phone to check all of my texts

Or roll your fuckin eyes at me when I talk about sex

And all that’s left to say is the mice are gonna play now that you’re gone, now that you’re gone

Oh yea, my life is so much better without you

You can suck me, I don’t care if I ever see you again

Oh yea, my life is so much better without you

You can suck me, I don’t care if I ever see you again

No more

Ow!!

[lzzyhaleofficial]

Nobody lyrics

Nobody

I’m your drug of choice

Or your inner voice

I’m A shot in the dark, cuttin through all the noise

The end of the rope, or you’re only hope

I’m an angel sent from heaven here to lead you home

So don’t give up, I’ll be tough enough for the both of us

Invincible, untouchable

So nobody knows

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

No one can see that I’m blind

I look like a winner, I’m a loser baby

It’s all just a trick in your mind

And nothin gives away my nothing

I’m hiding here in the light

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

And I’m your hero tonight.

I’m your hero tonight

I’m the missing piece

Or a sweet release

I’m the only thing that keeps you from bleeding

Be your tourniquet

Or a surrogate

Im a good excuse for all your bad habits

So don’t give in, don’t let them win

They don’t know the shape we’re in

We’re invincible, untouchable

So nobody knows

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

No one can see that I’m blind

I look like a winner, I’m a loser baby

It’s all just a trick in your mind

And nothin gives away my nothing

I’m hiding here in the light

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

And I’m your hero tonight.

I’m your hero tonight

Nobody…Nobody…Nobody…Nobody…

Nobody knows

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

No one can see that I’m blind

I look like a winner, I’m a loser baby

It’s all just a trick in your mind

And nothin gives away my nothing

I’m hiding here in the light

Nobody knows I’m a nobody

And I’m your hero tonight.

I’m your hero

I’m your hero tonight

I’m your hero

I’m your hero

[cinemove]

The first Gay Pride flag was made by a man named Gilbert Baker in 1978. He gave a meaning to each colour.

Beginners (2010) dir. Mike Mills

[baneshee]

[spelldealer]

me when i fucking breathe

[0v9]

good post if you ever breathe