Idea.
Summary.
Here's a summarized outline of the song concept you described, inspired by John Lennon's "Julia" and "Mother":
- Emotional Distance: Address the growing emotional separation and lack of understanding from your mother, reflecting the assumption that she already knows everything about you.
- Lack of Listening: Express the frustration that arises from your mother not listening to you, which stems from her belief that she knows you completely, despite your ongoing personal evolution.
- Desperate Efforts for Attention: Describe the actions you take, such as saying and doing silly or seemingly stupid things, in an effort to provoke any kind of reaction or response from her.
- Personal Evolution: Convey the transformation into a new version of yourself, a man who is becoming fully his own, independent and self-assured.
- Balancing Respect and Individuality: Discuss your desire to honor your mother and the values with which she raised you, while also asserting your need to live your life according to your own beliefs and desires, even if they conflict with her expectations.
Original Thoughts.
Song inspired by John Lennon’s Julia and Mother. Use this song to process the current emotional separation and distance I feel between me and my mom. Discuss how I feel she has no interest in my life, but assumes she already knows everything about me, although I am ever-evolving. Because she assumes she knows everything she no longer listens. Discuss how I say and do a bunch of stupid and silly things just to get some sort of response out of her. Discuss how I am becoming a new man. A man fully my own. Discuss how I want to stay the kind of man who honors her and the way she brought me up, but how I can’t do things I don’t want to do to please her, nor can I not do things that I don’t see as being wrong.