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It was another day in Los Angeles, California. Sitting in a black lounge chair, Canadian singer Justin Bieber, wearing black Levis, white sneakers and a black T-shirt covered by a black leather jacket, frowned as he tapped the pencil impatiently against the pad, trying to think of something to write a song about. But so far, all he got was nothing.
Then, his brown eyes lit up as he looked over at his stereo system. Quickly, he grabbed the remote, pointed it at the CD player and pressed Play. Instantly, the song Burn by his mentor, Usher Raymond, began to fill the room.
[Intro]
I don't understand why
See it's burning me to hold onto this
I know this is something I gotta do
But that don't mean I want to
What I'm trying to say is that I-love-you I just
I feel like this is coming to an end
And it's better for me to let it go now than hold on and hurt you
I gotta let it burn
[Verse 1]
It's gonna burn for me to say this
But it's comin from my heart
It's been a long time coming
But we done been fell apart
Really wanna work this out
But I don't think you're gonna change
I do but you don't
Think it's best we go our separate ways
Tell me why I should stay in this relationship
When I'm hurting baby, I ain't happy baby
Plus there's so many other things I gotta deal with
I think that you should let it burn
Justin then smiled as he listened to his mentor's voice while he sang of a breakup. He liked the album Confessions, which was where the song Burn came from, and thought the songs and the lyrics were very well-written, too. Plus, the title Confessions was a good one, seeing as how it was very realistic, and that Usher, like so many people, had confessions, secrets, skeletons in the closet, too.
[Chorus]
When your feeling ain't the same and your body don't want to
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpin' like it used to
Even though this might ruin you
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
As the rest of the song played, Justin's smile grew bigger and he then picked up his pencil and began to write...
Let's face it. Breakups are a painful time in anyone's life, whether you're a guy or a girl, a man or a woman. Relationships take time to grow, like a flower. They need time to blossom, which is similar to a friendship. Luckily, with getting over bad times (also called storms) and patching up painful wounds, relationships can become stronger as the couple takes the time to learn more about each other and learn to trust each other, especially if another girl or guy enters the picture.
Justin smiled at what he had written, and then put his pencil aside for now. Apparently, he had learned a lot about life, and how it could be many things and described in many words in his seventeen years, and that was quite something, too. He didn't know how he knew, though. He just knew.