open hearted

ivan b

you know

it's funny

a lot of you take the time

to write me these long

long messages about

what you're going through

and your struggles

and you ask me

how do you write down these words

to describe exactly what i'm feeling

and the answer is: i don't

i don't

i don't know you

i don't know any of you

but

it makes me happy that you can connect to what i'm saying

because i'm just a 20 year old kid with a pen

who just writes about anything he goes through

and

i've been stressing about doing this this intro

because i don't want to

i don't want to give you rehearsed lines

and

a cover of something

i don't know

i just wanted to talk to you

and maybe i should've wrote something down

maybe this doesn't sound as good as i thought it would be

i want you to know me

i want you to be able to listen to my music and be like: i know this guy

he's a cool guy

i don't know

there's a lot of things i wish i could take back

but that's

that's not how life works

so i wrote it down in

in hopes

to help one of you

to tell you things will be okay

my name is ivan

i'm from the bay area

and these are my layers of reflection