Lost & Found: Valentine’s Edition
This post was inspired by the Lost & Found: Valentine’s Edition blog hop which I ran into over at Arlee Bird’s blog: Tossing it Out.
Do you remember that special feeling of love found? And who hasn’t experienced the emotional experience of love lost? Some of you might have even lost a love only to find that person later for another go around.
Tell your story about love lost or found in our special Valentine’s blogfest. Your post can be a short fiction, an essay, poetry, or even a song–let your imagination run free. Any genre is fair game, be it romance, historical fiction, memoir, or even science fiction. After all there are no limitations when it comes to love.

Love as an Undertow
One of my goals for 2016 is to release a CD, so when I bumped into the Lost & Found blog hop, I decided to share one of my songs. Thanks to the blog hop, I got my recording equipment set up again – which is a big step in the right direction for me!
Now, I had orginally planned to share a different song, one called “Lost Echoes,” but it’s not ready to share, yet. That’s why you’re getting “Undertow,” instead.
Hey, they’re both love songs!
Inspired by life off-the-grid
In my early 20’s, I lived off-the-grid on a tiny island with a population of 9 people. I spent many transformative hours reading, writing, and strolling the beach. As you might expect, nature plays a big role in the songs I wrote during that time, including the one I’m sharing today.
The song is called “Undertow,” and as you can see, while it’s a love song, it’s about some of the dangers that love can pose to the psyche. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the instruments you hear are clarinet, guitar and synthesizers.
I hope you enjoy it!
Undertow (music/lyrics by Tui Snider)
I threw my luck to the tides
Thinking the moon was in control
What a perfect couple, they’d say
The current swept me alongWhere did my choices go?
Into your undertow
Where did your promises go?
Into the undertow
Into the undertowYou took my chances; you pulled me under
The surface remained so calm
Will I be another driftwood corpse soon,
Stacked upon your shore?Where did my chances go?
Into your undertow
Where did your promises go?
Into the undertow
Into the undertowWater is a colorless reflection
Of the changing sky
Why’d I keep my eyes on you?
I could have learned more from on highWhere did my future go?
Into your undertow
Where did your promises go?
Into the undertow
Into the undertowWater is a colorless reflection of the changing sky…
Water is a colorless reflection of the changing sky…
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