My New Album is Out on Monday

This weeks writing prompt from twentysomethingwriters is - Album Cover

How to find out your album details:

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - First random article is your band name.
2. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Random- *Find a quote on the page to be your album title. You may have to refresh the page once if there are not quotes on your random page**
3. flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days - Third picture is your album cover.
   Write your back story and inspiration.

It's hard to believe that the journey started 3 long years ago. I've come so far, yet not as far as it feels like it should have come.

My first album is out on Monday. I'm surrounded by the buzz and excitement of it all but I can't help but feel sadness. Why? It's complicated.

Brett and I dated when I was in high school. It was true love. Well, the dysfunctional kind of true love that you get when two people couldn't be worse for each other. Brett was older than me. He'd finished school a few years earlier and he wanted to be a rock star. He played guitar and was, you know, the quiet, moody musician type. With his shoulder length messy dark hair and deep dark eyes you could see your own reflection in. This was lust in it's rawest form. But I mistook it for love.

4th Street was where I had found him. He was unconscious but still breathing. He could've had it all, he could've made it big. But he chose his addictions over the life that could've been.

He always said that the only way to overcome hard luck, which featured a lot in his life (so he thought), was with hard work. But really Brett got this wrong, for his life anyway. He worked hard to make his own hard luck

His death hit me hard. But it made me realise that I needed to get somewhere and do something with my life, if only so that his death wasn't for nothing. I write this on the third anniversary of his death. It is with great excitement, but incredible sadness, that my new, my first, album is released. Hard Luck is Hard Work...this is for you baby...R.I.P.


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