Strip Me

This song is so deep to me, I've probably listened to it 40 times by now, I literally think that the first verse is my life.

"Everyday I fight for
All my future somethings,
A thousand little wars
I have to choose between,
I could spend a lifetime
Earning things I don’t need,
That’s like chasing rainbows
And coming home empty"

Always striving for what?  Fighting for what? The future, all the lives I could of had or want to have. I'm never satisfied with my own, having to be better.

The second verse I swear mirror's how I view myself, always on, always speaking my heart, always wearing it on my sleeve. I guess I realized that when I examined my identity, to see if there was something deeper underneath the surface, I found that there is very little underneath the surface, I let most of it all-hangout there.  Finding security that in my identity was openness. 

I don't need a microphone
To say what I been thinking,
My heart is like a loudspeaker
Thats always on eleven,
And if you strip me,
Strip it all away
If you strip me,
What would you find
If you strip me,
Strip it all away
I’m still the same

And finally the chorus, the story of my life, my past. That at the end of the day, everyone that has taken any part of me, take it all, keep it, its yours. And realize you only took part of me and you can't take my entire identity with you.

Take what you want,
Steal my pride,
Build me up
Or cut me down to size,
Shut me out
But I’ll just scream,
I'm only one voice in a million
But you ain't taking that from me.

Because behind it all, the brokenness, bruises, memories, there is still a voice, a person.

Strip Me- Natasha Beddingfield