Jigsaw Works With Roundhouse

Jigsaw recently worked with Roundhouse Studios to offer some LGBT young who are homeless or having trouble at home the chance to come together and share their experiences through music.

The Roundhouse is a world famous music venue with previous performances from Kasabian, Jarvis Cocker, Paul McCartney, The Chemical Brothers, The Beastie Boys, The Who, Morrissey and James Brown. More importantly, the Roundhouse delivers creative projects for 13-25 year-olds from all backgrounds, covering radio, music production, drama, poetry, TV, sound engineering, photography, VJ skills and more. The professionally led projects take place in the Roundhouse’s 24 state-of-the-art studios.

So what happened?

First of all the group had an introduction to percussion and samba music. This was really great fun and helped every one loosen up. We also began to develop beats and think about what type of music we liked. We then broke off into two smaller groups to create lyrics, as we all identified as LGBT we thought it would be good to write about our own experiences. Then we pulled it all together and created our piece here are the lyrics:

PLEASE TELL ME WHY

You know how it feels
You made me feel I am different
I have everyone
When I have no one
I am trying to get back but it’s not easy
I would have changed if I could do
Now you tell me how I am going to face this
I like my all that shopping days
Having boogies and stay awake till late
It’s not me anymore.
I don’t feel the same.
I wish you could understand
Now I have got what I wanted
But lost something else
I know what will be the solution
I hope you will regret it soon

Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?
Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?

You called me a pervert just for being me
You said I’m a dirty faggot
I just wish you could see

See what I see

Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?
Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?

I was living in a fake world
Couldn’t be who I wanna be
All I asked from them to understand
My life wasn’t going to be as they planned
They said living in a big family
Was the reason for my insecurity
But truthfully in the end
It was the cure for my insanity

Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?
Please tell me why
Do I have to live a lie?
Please tell me why
Can’t I be who I am inside?

There is something I’d like to say
But I know I can’t break it
It’s killing me inside
But I know I can’t keep it

If you think I’m any different
You’re wrong to think of that
I have been strong enough to live my life
I think its time for me to come out

Listen to the song by clicking here or on our YouTube channel here