Story Behind The Song

Story finds the singer in a funk of self-doubt, wondering where this doubt comes from and why she's so susceptible to it.

Song Description

An uptempo, rockin' song about the back-and-forth of feeling good and succumbing to self-doubt

Lyrics

Yesterday I was rockin? and a-rollin?
I was really feeling my dream
Got smug got proud and accidentally noted
How easy everything seems
In just one thought my disbelieving mind
Jumped in and stuck some Jekyl in my Hyde and
Here I am again saying these things to me

Girl what makes you think that dream is true
(it ain?t for you)
Here on the ground the sky doesn?t look so blue
You better check yourself I think you?re doing something wrong
Your head?s in the clouds and that?s not where it belongs
Why do I say these things to me oh now tell me
Why do I say these things to me

Where?s that girl who?s always working harder
Keeping all her plans on track
Dang that girl I thought that she was smarter
Than to crumble when her doubts attack
Here comes doubt the worst you ever heard
There I go believing every word
And here I am again saying these things to me

Girl what makes you think that dream is true
(it ain?t for you)
Here on the ground the sky doesn?t look so blue
You better check yourself I think you?re doing something wrong
Your head?s in the clouds and that?s not where it belongs
Why do I say these things to me oh now tell me
Why do I say these things to me

I guess my shadow side
Knows how to get the best of me
I feel it pull me under in a strong rip tide
And then I?m nine miles out to sea

Tell me why I can never see it coming
Wonder when I?ll ever learn
I tell myself that life is really hummin?
And that?s when I always get burned
In just one thought my disbelieving mind
Jumps in to stick some Jekyl in my Hyde and
Here I am again saying these things to me oh now tell me
Why do I say these things to me?now tell me
Why do I say these things to me