Sean Deegan: Songs & Info

My Reason, the story behind the song.

Hopefully the lyrics tell the story of this one, if possible listen to this song through headphones, relax and allow yourself into the story and drift your way through it.

This story was born out of dreams, dreams that I carried as a child, that were lost as I grew up and then were re-discovered in a twist of fate that was to re-ignite my child within and refresh the hopes and dreams that I had believed in as a little girl.

Like many little girls my eyes widened and heart skipped a beat at the thought that one day a Prince would ride into my life and would carry me off into the sunset on his trusted steed, to a magical castle where we would live happily ever after. I mean how could the stories be wrong? Where do fairy tales come from? Do some people just have a wild imagination or did they know something that many ordinary folk chuckle at and dismiss as “Just Fairytales” that never come true in “real life!” Did Walt Disney just have a wacky imagination when he crafted Snow White from an old fairy tale? The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and Oscar Wilde to name but a few are they not interpreters between ‘that world and this’ to bring to life the silent dreams of many, the stories that have been passed down from generation to generation, or the visions that they themselves have of an interpretation of life itself, as they see it, told in a way that young and old can relate to and allows them to dream of a world that to many seems too unbelievable to be ‘real’.

As you grow up, you can be overwhelmed by the teachings of the ‘grown ups’ who tell you that it is all just a fantasy, I began to lose my faith as I grew, I forgot my dreams and settled for, what felt like was, the reality of real life, things like that don’t happen, especially to me, I married settled down without a Prince, and lived so not very happily ever after….. until one day…….

My child within would cry silently, was my life really supposed to be like this? Surely my part to play on this earth was not supposed to end like this, the happily ever after had been replaced with oh well that’s your lot until you die, my child within wouldn’t accept the story that I had crafted for myself and kept tugging at my conscience until I decided to re-write the story.

After my separation I was again on my own, with two young children life sure didn’t feel much like a fairy tale, single mum, three bed semi part time job and a Vauxhall Astra, but I was free, free to re-write my destiny, or for destiny to find me and to re-write my ending……

I began to look at my life like a jigsaw puzzle, gathering pieces along the way aiming for the bigger picture, but with the acknowledgement that every piece that you gathered along the way was crucial in that it helped to paint the final picture, the end result would not look right if there was something missing, sometimes the pieces fall away from view and it is harder to find them, they may have slipped onto the floor or under the box and you need to look a little harder to find them, but if you believe always that the pieces are all there then they can be found, eventually, and one day your puzzle will be complete.


I never wore rags and scrubbed floors for my wicked step sister’s, I didn’t have to flee the wicked witch and hide with ‘the little people’, I have never taken a bite from a poison apple but I can relate to most of the stories in some way, the only thing I ever held onto was my dreams, I did believe one day My Prince would come and he did, not on a handsome grey stallion, he had a peugot 307, he didn’t fight dragon’s to find me, although in a way he did, we don’t live in a castle now, but in our minds we do, we are living happily ever after in today’s modern world, our fairytale has been adapted and it fits our dream perfectly.

And so this is My Reason, My Prince, the story behind the song, every lyric has a meaning translated and sculpted to form my puzzle, of my story, of my dream come true.

Thank you for reading the story, if you have a dream, please don’t stop believing in it, in the words of the late great Walt Disney, “If you can DREAM it, you can DO it!”