Two albums. Two experiences.
Sixteen songs on each album, connected across English and Spanish. Each has its own music, expression and pacing.
Still My Own
Aún Soy Mío
The hurt was spoken. It was understood. The behavior continued. Leaving becomes a choice that makes room for future love, without asking the next person to answer for the last.
Connected song on Aún Soy Mío
Abierto Cuando Se Rompe
A note from Chris
The affection was real. So was the cost.
I knew what it was like to say how I felt, be heard, and still wait for something to change. There was real affection in that connection. There was also a cost to staying.
I didn’t want to write the affection out of the story just because I needed to leave. I wanted a song for keeping my heart open to life while becoming free of what wasn’t valuing it.
There was nothing left to explain.
The affection was real. So was the breach of trust. Reassurance keeps returning, but changed behavior does not. The turning point arrives when the narrator stops searching for a better sentence and acts on what has already been made clear. Leaving does not require calling the love false or treating future lovers as suspects.
I can love you, I can leave youFrom the lyrics of Open When It BreaksYou can leave without rewriting what you loved.
Calling every moment of affection false would make the goodbye simpler, but smaller. The harder truth is that care and harm can inhabit the same connection. The song makes room to grieve what mattered while acting on what continued to hurt. Keeping an open heart does not mean leaving every door open to the same person.
On Still My Own
After the protective force of Love Has Teeth, this song makes a boundary into a lived decision. Good Company then spends time inside the life that decision opens.
Development & creative credits
Recorded vocals · Chris in Full
Recorded performance by Christian Rodriguez / Chris in Full.
Turn it up—I want to feel it
Let the bass get in my bones
I don’t have to wait till nothing hurts
To want a life that’s all my ownConcept, lyric writing, development and revision, musical and performance direction: Christian Rodriguez / Chris in Full.
Chris corrected the emotional premise: hurt had been communicated, but understanding had not become changed behavior. He wrote the closing assertion of freedom while preserving openness to life: affection without surrendering the reason to leave.
Across Still My Own, Chris’s original writing, extensive rewriting and narrative development give form to his lived experience, imagination and emotional vision. He works between intuition and reasoning, refining language and musical direction so that phrasing, rhythm and delivery carry what he means. These notes describe creative development, not final recording credits.
Authorship, AI use & vocal information
Album-level creative credits