Drea - bedroom safe house

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Drea - bedroom safe house

Exactly a year after I interviewed the legendary artist Drea on her song Dear Emily, the singer-songwriter puts out a new song. bedroom safe house.

bedroom safe house got delivered on my front door at the right time. i’m about to move to a new country, i’m used to traveling and settling myself in at Airbnbs and friends’ guest rooms for a week up to a month. There comes a complete different feeling to leaving behind the room I inhabited and hibernated in between those adventures. I know I can visit home and lay in my own bed here whenever it pleases me. Scared to see only parts of my room cause I’ve moved them to another country with me. The song reminds me to make peace with that, I also know I’m gonna listen to this song in a month’s time and whenever I do think of home and my bedroom safe house, it’ll be this room. not any other i’ll decorate and polish up. it’ll be this bedroom. the one i’m writing this review right now.

Drea has an ability to calm her listeners. Take them on a journey through her own feelings and words, almost in a way talking to each one listening. She invites one to reflect on certain aspects on life that usually aren’t really addressed in folk pop.

Losing myself to the feeling

It torments me while I’m asleep

Lost in life with no meaning

I’m waiting for more, still I can't let go

Reading through the lyrics weirdly remind me of Drea posting this past Summer about her little family members that gambolled around the grass and joyfully soaked up life. Sometimes we’re all so caught up in life’s responsibilities and look for a meaning in everything. The lyrics are only a selection of words, and still they say so much. Maybe we can all let our shoulders be more loose when we pick up our headphones and listen to this 3 minutes song.

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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.

Here’s a journal entry of Bonnie’s that you can read while listening to ‘bedroom safe house’:

“i connect home to a safe space. which in my case is my bedroom. the bed i got from my dad when he moved in with his partner and the old tv i heaved upstairs after my grandma had passed away. it’s the prom dress, hanging in the corner telling me how happy and proud we’ve once been of us, and at the same time how heartbroken we felt cause our date cancelled last minute and how lonely school had made us feel during those years. it’s all the books i collected in the 18 years i already spend on this earth. during the night, it’s hearing the breathing of my Mama and her partner. it’s the hours i spend writing, reading & crying here in this room. it’s the early hours i wake up to join a community meeting from overseas. last night, i wrote into my diary how lonely i am here. having no real friends in this tiny village. all who once pretended to be my friends in high school turned around and we have no contact anymore since graduating. and i continued to write how i lost a lot of family members since turning eighteen cause it seems like they signed invisible contracts at my birth and with me becoming an adult, they feel like i don’t need them anymore. i wrote more of how no one really knows the story of my first love. my brother doesn’t know the deets, my dad never really asked and my Mama is the only one who saw it in the way my eyes lit up when i talked about it. i translate and read her some of the many poems i wrote for this love now too. i realised how the only one who really knows about it or some of my other secrets is you. the dear reader of my words. you usually know how i feel before i do even. and sometimes, it can feel like no one reads my words right after i shared them, but one day there will be people reading these words and thinking of me. maybe you’re this person right now.”

the life I dream of awaits me once again