A huge hello from all my fellow musical hivers in this community. It is an absolute pleasure of mine to be here again to bring you this performance this week.
It is week 170 round 2 of the Hive Music Festival organized by the 
The song I will be performing this week is titled It'll be okay by Shawn Mendez. This song as far as I am concerned, is probably Shawn Mendez's magnum opus. It is a very heavy song with deep lyrics that most people will certainly be able to relate to. The slow pace of the song really allows ample time for the lyrics to sink into your soul and pierce even the thickest layers of protection, revealing that emotional being underneath.
The song is essentially about realizing the fact that a relationship is not going to ripen until death the way you'd initially imagined. But instead of freaking out with arms flailing in the air and tears welling up in your eyes till they block out the light rays, you just accept your fate in a stoic fashion. I suppose it is funny in a way, but only in retrospect, as someone who has actually been in such a situation before.
I love the lyrics so much, and I also particularly love the visual imagery in the official music video of the song, which shows Shawn Mendez alone walking down the street as he sings the song. I think it really depicts the aloneness and loneliness that stems from such a situation and how it would typically take a while to begin to feel whole again.
I do hope you thoroughly enjoy this song as much as I do.
Here are the lyrics.
Are we gonna make it?
Is this gonna hurt?
Oh, we can try to sedate it
But that never works
Yeah
I start to imagine a world where we don't collide
It's making me sick, but we'll heal and the sun will rise
If you tell me you're leaving, I'll make it easy
It'll be okay
If we can't stop the bleeding
We don't have to fix it, we don't have to stay
I will love you either way
Ooh-ooh, it'll be oh, be okay
Ooh-ooh
Oh, the future we dreamed of is fading to black
Oh
Oh, there's nothing more painful
Nothing more painful, oh-woah
I start to imagine a world where we don't collide
And it's making me sick, but we'll heal and the sun will rise
If you tell me you're leaving, I'll make it easy
It'll be okay (It'll be okay)
And if we can't stop the bleeding
We don't have to fix it, we don't have to stay (don't have to stay)
I will love you either way
Ooh-ooh, it'll be oh, be okay
Ooh-ooh
I will love you either way
It might be so sweet
It might be so bitter
I will love you either way
It might be so sweet
It might be so bitter (ooh-ooh)
Oh, if the future we've dreamed of is fading to black
I will love you either way
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Eddie Benjamin / Michael Sabath / Scott Harris / Shawn Mendes
Here is a link to the official music video of the song.
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