A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs

“Return To Me” (Song)

By Athena Stairs, November 4, 2025

Return to me
Oh journeying soul
Of youthful and painful toiling

Let not more time
Pass beyond our acquisition
For we’ve worked earnestly to gain rewards

Why chase false leads
Down broken promise roads
When we’ve found love’s truths revealing?

Surely you and I
Have developed Wisdom’s Eye to
Differentiate Same from Different meaning

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A Woman's Plight, Songs

“Runaway” Reggae Version (Song)

By Athena Stairs – Updated November 1, 2025

Verse 1 Intro

I found this really cool guy
Who could look me in the eye
No matter a thing that I would say

But then I found out
He was still full of doubt
Tipped his hat and then left the same day

Chorus 1

All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
It seems I’ve got a knack
Can’t get a guy to stay

I need this nut to crack
They never take it back
The meat is always rot and leaves a bitter sting

All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway

They never take it back
I need this nut to crack
The meat is always rot and leaves a bitter sting

Verse 2

What is it in a man that draws me to him?
Thinkin’ that he’ll stick but there’s no glue

Like chasin’ butterflys
There is no reason why
Dodge and weavin’ only leaves my heart a bruise

Chorus 2

And all I ever seem to find’s a runaway runaway
No matter what I do it’s all the same

(Bridge) Stars aligned but not entwined
I’d seize the day they go away
A trick of light changin’ the frame of mind!

All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
It seems I can’t get a guy to stay

I need this nut to crack
They never take it back
All I ever do is find a runaway

Verse 3

There came a time I thought I’d made the grade
But Fickle Fate she had to add her’s too

Life can be unkind
No replay just hit unwind
Now runaway is something I do too

Chorus 3

All I ever seem to find’s a runaway runaway
No matter what I do it’s all the same

All I ever do is find a runaway a runaway
It seems I can’t get a guy to just stay

All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway

All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do
They run away

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A class assignment challenge required me to sing my lyrics to a prerecorded, looped track, and so I went for it and embellished on the fly in one try. Surprisingly, I timed it exactly – not knowing how long the loop would go!

I also edited the recording in Logic with a little bit of “room” effect to add some polish.

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A Woman's Plight, Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Fried Fricassee

With all of the efforts it took to answer an agency call, get ready, deal with animals, leave the house, drive, get a gas card, check on rent progress, and then finally make it to the class building, she was late, her hair was fried, and her confidence was blown – so she escaped into a practice room.

A Return To Innocence, In Dreams, Reclamation

When You Give

Curtains are drawn as lights go down
No one else will hear a single sound
Unless we want them to

I touch your face as fingers trace
Tenderly kissing we now embrace
Joy releases our need to confiding

Free to share our secrets in the dark
How I’ve longed to feel your beating heart!
And all the world is quieting

Making space for our colliding
In a union that fate’s providing

Our souls lifted as flying
I’m yours in every breath