SONG CHALLENGE 2025 PHASE 2—HEALING BY FIBROSIS

This is my entry for The Song Challenge for the year 2025. Phase 2. This song is an original composition of mine titled HEALING BY FIBROSIS.

This song has a particularly interesting history because, first of all, it was not one of those songs that just burst out of me in one continuous, unbroken go. The song came together over a span of about 10-11 months, piece by piece, verse by verse, till I was left with one coalesced, tightly knit song that somehow felt like it indeed burst out of me in a singular moment borne by intense passion. Although, it didn't start out as a crazy, heartfelt, passionate song, in time, it came to be that way, and no other way.

The year was 2020, the month was January, and I was about one week away from my second professional medical board exams, or MB2, as we call it. I was in my room, revising a pathology slide which was titled WOUND HEALING, and I'm sure by now you can guess that that's where the title of the song came from, its birthing place. One of the ways a wound can heal is by fibrosis, that is when it leaves a scar.

Something sparked within me and I grabbed my guitar, and I began to sing what would eventually become the chorus of this song.
This is healing by fibrosis
This is healing by fibrosis
This is healing by fibrosis
This is healing with a scar

I then continued reading or went on to do whatever else it was I did that day. Months down the line, around July that year, it was the middle of the lockdown which was as a result of the corona virus pandemic and I had been writing a lot of poems and songs with all the free time I had. That particular day, I stumbled upon the voice recording of the chorus I had made in January, and decided to make it into a full song, so I got to work and wrote the first verse, which is more like four verses really. Lol. But I didn't finish it that day.

Another few months passed and we're in October or November by now, I came across the incomplete song in my songbook and finally decided to work up the courage to finish it up, so I wrote the second verse and the bridge. And voila, the song was finally complete.

Ultimately, this song of mine is the story of a guy who was heartbroken, healed with a scar, and now finds it hard to give in to love coz of the hurt it had given him in the past.

Don't be like him. Love with reckless abandon nonetheless. Be better.

Enjoy.

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