I’ve never reviewed a song before but I recently got asked to listen to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield and the words hit me like a ton of bricks, so thanks Alex for the prod to listen to it.
Here’s the video – Unwritten on YouTube
Lyrics
I am unwritten,
Can’t read my mind
I’m undefined
I’m just beginning
The pen’s in my hand
Ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your innovation
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines
We’ve been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can’t live that way oh, oh
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
I totally love the lyrics, I mean I would, they are all about blank pages in a book and wanting to write and be something new. It’s more then that though, so much more.
The songs all about embracing the future, the future totally unique to you and your path. Carving your own through-road in and around the lives of other people. It’s about choosing to embrace the unexpected, the moments of spontaneous opportunity. On top of all that it’s suggestive of the awesome middle ground between free-will and fate. When there is a path we can create by our choices but also the knowledge that we’ve got some help from somewhere.
The part I love most though is the feeling of new beginnings. When times are tough and stuff goes wrong we can close the book on it and move on to something new, something fresh, and something entirely our own.