"No One Listens"

"Goodbye To You"

"Wind"

"I Need You"

          All Songs by Christine Her  2007    Learn more about Christine at:     http://www.myspace.com/christineher

About Christine Her:

My name is Christine Her. I am from Iowa, the cornstate. As of now, I am a senior in highschool who will be attending college next fall. Music is my passion. Writing and singing is a way for me to forget about the world and just focus on what matters. Music is a way for me to be who I am without having thoughts of what others may think of me. I am Hmong and it is another asian ethnicity. Sometimes people question what is "Hmong"? All my life I have been asked that. Coming from a culture that did not have their own country has definitely helped me to define what it means to be Hmong. I have come to really embrace and love my culture. It has really shaped who I am and who I will continue to be.

I love music and everything about it. I am open to listen to anything and play and sing anything. I have been singing for a while now, the funny thing is, I use to dread singing, but I have come to love and enjoy singing. I play guitar and I have been playing for about 3 or 4 years now. I write my own songs and make my own music. I am currently recording; it is a bedroom production kinda thing. I live in Iowa, the corn state. I have morals and beliefs. My biggest inspiration in writing and playing is for God. I have this relationship that I know no one can ever take away, it is my faith and my hope in Him. I know that many think Christians are so hypocritical and so judgemental, but we are all humans and being something and believing in something and not believing, does not change the fact that we truly are all the same. Here in America we have choices to be who we want to be, who we choose to hang with, we can choose what life we lead and who we follow; we all have the same choices and we all have dreams, some just pursue it while others do not. Thus meaning we are all pretty much the same, we have all had our downfall, had our uprising, had good days and bad days, we just live differently, that is all.

Everyone has their way of showing others who they are, for me, music is just that. When words are not enough, music is always enough. It's like music understands me when the whole world doesn't. I can truly be who I am through music and not be afraid or ashamed.

I have been through an emotional rollercoaster, but in the end, it is all worth it, because it makes the music and the lyrics real. So I hope as you listen to the songs, that maybe, just maybe you can understand and have a sense of feeling because it has happened to you. And if not, it is all good. I just hope you like the music.

These songs are just really, really, really rough demos. But it's something, and hopefully it's something good. =]

About The Songs:

No One Listens

The first song "No One Listens", I actually wrote that last night [10-18-07]. It's a true song, in meaning, no one listens to me. It's a rough demo, and no, I have not tried to cut myself if you're wondering. If you look beyond what the words are saying you'll see what I'm saying through this song. It's more of a desperate cry. A cry for help and a cry for understanding. It's actually a song that I would sing to my parents. But then again, they wouldn't even listen, hence the title, "No One Listens". I've been emotional lately, and now I'm in a mood where I just don't care. Out of brokenness, a song is written.

Goodbye To You

The song "Goodbye to You" is a painful song. I suppose I would call it that. Pain was what I was feeling when I wrote this song. I was also angry at the same time. Relationships and guys don't go hand in hand. I guess, when you care for someone that's all you see, but beyond that point, there's something deeper, something more. I didn't see it. It took me a while to understand that this was what I didn't want and that I didn't want to hold on to something that was no longer mine. I guess, to start out with, it was never mine. It was a blissful dream just waiting to come true. Every word in this song is real, such as the poem "don't shatter my heart" and seeing their sadness and their joy. Mainly, the song is about two people who I really really came to care for, but now, I can't completely say I don't care, but they mean nothing to me now. Distance is a bacteria that spreads and eventually that distance becomes a stain that no one wants to try to clean up or try to heal. I'm good with goodbye.

Wind

The song "Wind" is actually one of the most inspiring songs I have ever written. I hope that when you hear it you'll feel it with your heart. This song is for all of those Hmong people who have been forgotten. The lost soldiers. It's for them. I'm not sure how much any of you know. I suggest do some reading and open your mind to truth. You can start by searching Hmong and Vietnam War. You see, to the Hmong, it was a "secret war", the Hmong fought with the Americans in promising that they would get to escape and come to America. The sad part is some were left there and now many are in the jungles running for their lives every day. Literally running and trying to escape. It's up to us to do something. I'm not saying it's a group of people who are doing this to the Hmong people, I'm saying that the government over there is corrupt. But like any government, we're all corrupt. Let's stop corruption and open a new horizon.

I Need You

I wrote the song "I Need You" on October 31. I was so inspired and moved to write this song because I was drifting away from God. Everything that I was going through and all these mixed emotions and painful thoughts and memories were getting to me. I was blaming God for everything that was happening. I did not have full trust in Him. I was drifting farther and farther away by my own pain and I did not rely on God. My soul felt as if it was being consumed by poison. I was so bitter and always so mad I did not have time to just be one with God. That night I just felt so alone and so I turned on my itunes and the first song playing was "Heart of Worship" and it just hit me so hard. The song was speaking to me and through me. I knew right then and there, that I had to come back to God, I had to come back to the heart of worship. I know that I need more of Him. That's the first step, to be able to realize that you need Him. I wrote this song out of brokenness and out of pain. But in the end, it was all worth it. Having God and knowing that He remains the same and that He's unchanging is the most wonderful feeling in the world. As the world and people change, I know for sure, that my God remains the same. That's truly amazing.

Continue to have faith and seek Him always. Be Blessed. =]

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