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Strong and Tall

from Stuck In Quarantine by J. Isaiah Smith

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The only other selection from "Kings, Queens, and Unruly Peasants" this had to be one of the more difficult for me to write. There was something about this character in particular which led me to writing several trashed versions of her song. However, what I could not find, my good friend Breanna Carodine did! I owe this character to her, as she would be little more than a cardboard cutout of the generic "love interest" without her guidance.
A dragon slayer named Leila (Played by Roni Shelley Perez) who lost her parents at a young age to a dragon, forever swore to slay them until her last day. Having lost her family, and what she believed to be the only love she had in this cruel life, she made it a goal to keep to herself and forever slay dragons in their name.
However, when a young lovestruck man named Richie offers to be her student to learn more about her, the two begin to truly fall in love; and she is reminded what love feels like once again for the first time in years.

lyrics

"I never thought he'd amount to much,
given his lack in strength.
He barely swings with a soft light touch,
given his arm's length.

And it's true
he's no warrior at all.
One swift move,
get him cornered, he'll fall.

Yet he could command
any man I've seen.
In all of this land
Richie makes my balance careen.

Strong and tall
may not be what you are.
But all in all
you are so much more by far.


And now and now each and every day
I can see right through you.
How yes how in each different way
that you show love through you.
I find it in your laugh I find it in your smile.
When I address it you stay in denial.
I see it when you train. Your work ethic's insane.
It's like you don't feel pain!

And I sense that you don't know
but I'm falling for you!
And I won't let you go!
Those beast won't take you too!

So I stop him and say
that we're done for the day.
You should go back inside.
And he looks and blinks
with those wonderous eyes,
and I feel our hearts collide.
And he goes to the spout,
and I decide to search him out,
and turn to see.

Who's that man leaving with Richie?

Strong and tall
may not be what you are.
But all in all
you are so much more by far.
Queens would fight
for the love you'd provide.
To lie at night
with with such a man much by their side.

Men were never man for war,
but still they battle on.
Just as love was some forbidden light,
and but yet it's breaking with the dawn.

And maybe my whole life
I've been running from the fight!
When I lost them the day it turned to night.
And I built my world in darkness,
and made vengeance out of spite.
And the world it seemed so heartless,
that I clenched to mines so tight,
til I forgot the shine of light
And I forgot that love could blind so bright
until Richie brought it back to my site.

I knew love
and the world tore it apart,
but Richie now has reminded my heart."

credits

from Stuck In Quarantine, released March 6, 2021
Vocalist: Roni Shelley Perez
Music Composition, Arrangement, and track by J. Isaiah Smith
Mixed by Jay Srygley

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J. Isaiah Smith Omaha, Nebraska

J. Isaiah Smith is a Best-Selling and Internationally Produced Playwright, as well as a Songwriter and Lyricist. His works, written for Highschool-College level performers, focus on internal morality, corruption, and self empowerment, presented in varying comedic and dramatic forms with moments of sincerity and self reflection. ... more

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