I've always loved this song & it felt rather apt of late. It's a touch low for me but transposed an entire octave is too high & backing is for this key, and this is a pretty rough attempt so there's some fumbles & general sub-par-ness, but really what else would you expect from me? 





Made using this backing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyBxGs8hrVo

Use Somebody (Kings of Leon cover)

Had this on the brain for days & I keep doing half-assed simple harmonies, so thought I may as well make a song out of it. 

Since I suck at guitar - track used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhX_tE9dNQ

Follow You Into The Dark (DCFC cover)

I wanted to write a proper christmas song this year but I've had no time, so I looked up the chords then recorded it on the second playthrough. but it'll have to do. merry christmas to you all, have a safe one x

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

This album never gets old, and Overjoyed has always been my fave from it so I decided to try and make a super lowkey chill cover. It...somewhat happened?

Overjoyed (Bastille cover)

this is the first song I've recorded at my own flat in years so excuse the traffic and city noises outside. also just the general bad song. I haven't written an original in months

Lyrics:
i don’t want to lose you
even if you’re barely here
i don’t want to lose you
even if it you don’t feel a thing

and you’re just a lingering picture
i refuse to throw out
hidden in the back of my closet 
in a box i can’t bear to think about

but i don’t wanna lose you at all

even if you don’t know i still stare at that picture
it was never really tangible
and maybe we just missed it
but darling don't you realise how much i’ve always cared

even though that’s all i have of you
just a picture in my head
you’re slipping through my fingers
you’re always out of reach
but never quite enough
to let me go

but maybe if i gave you up
went cold turkey like quitting cigarettes
maybe the craving would go away
because holding a cigarette just to hold it
that isn’t helping, anyway

maybe if i lose you
in the years to come still
i’ll see you in a car park 
on a rainy afternoon

maybe we’ll find each other
muddled in the future
maybe you’ll see me then
like i’ve always seen you

you’re slipping through my fingers
you’re always out of reach
and maybe if i gave you up
in the years to come still

maybe you’ll love me then
like i love you now

©L. Bowman

Give It A Year

here's another shitty cover made on my shitty keyboard because i wanted to sing this song 

LYRICS:
there's too much light between us
and i'm trying to mind the gap
i'd do anything to fix us
not just paper up the cracks
sliding doors are closing
did I let you get away
there's a light in this tunnel
but i think it's a train

something's missing in my heart
it's the bit where you are
i need you back
please please mind the gap
and i don't know where to start
never been this far apart
need you back
please please mind the gap

and the light between us
and the light between us
and the light between us grows and grows and grows
and the light between us
and the light between us
and the light between us grows and grows and grows
the light between us
the light between us
the light between us grows and grows and grows

there's too much light between us
and i'm trying to mind the gap
i'd do anything to fix us
not just paper up the cracks
sliding doors are closing
did I let you get away
there's a light in this tunnel
and i hope it's a train

The Light Between Us (SFG cover)

ft. seagull & traffic because i live in a city by the sea. 

i've had this stuck on the brain for a few days so did a lowkey keyboard cover. not sure if the chords are even right, but hey

Redshift (Darwin Deez cover)

[ft. a loud motorbike because i live in a city & couldn't do a better take than this one] 

this is just a little thing i've had in my head lately. tried to make it into a full song but it wouldn't work, so i guess it was meant to be this. 

LYRICS:
hey you 
With the pretty eyes
the lightning heart
And that sunshine smile 
You’ve got the whole world at your fingertips 
But you wouldn’t believe me 
Even though I’ve tried 

You could build mountains 
But you’re just burying yourself 
You could control the tide 
And I’m drowning in you 
You could do anything you set your mind to my love 
But all you want to do… is hide 

©L. Bowman

Untitled (original)

a shitty cover of a brilliant cover*

*this is two takes edited together (as anyone can tell) cause my phone stopped recording halfway through but what did you expect? good quality from here? as if

Can't Make You Love Me (Bon Iver cover)

Forgive me, for I am in mourning 
I am mourning everything we could have been 
I’m mourning all the futures we planned together:

I’m mourning the treehouse with fairylights and a rope bridge in the woods
I’m mourning the apartment in Boston with exposed brick walls
I’m mourning a cabin in Norway with a crackling fire and the gentle fall of snow outside
I’m mourning the cat we will never get to pick out and argue over names 

I am mourning the 2am messages and the midnight phone calls
I’m mourning the way the world lights up along with my phonescreen when you message me
I’m mourning the way your hair looks after the shower 
I’m mourning the way you say my name and how your lips look when you smile at me 

I’m mourning the way it feels to hold your hand and have you rest your head on my shoulder 
I’m mourning the sound of your accent against the bluntness of my world 
I’m mourning the way you always say my eyes look pretty in the night light
I’m mourning the way you call me baby and the smile that I can’t escape when you call me sweetheart 

I’m mourning the chance that we never got 
I’m mourning the fact I see you in every face despite even in my dreams you’re still miles away 
I’m mourning the way your hair feels in my fingers and how you close your eyes 
And I’m mourning the fact I haven’t felt this way in years and for the first time I had hope

I’m mourning the happiness I have lost
I’m mourning the grief I’ve given you 
I’m mourning every ounce of pain I have brought on you
I’m mourning the fact I cannot take it all on myself

I’m mourning that I cannot fight the monsters inside your head
I’m mourning that I cannot stitch myself onto your heart 
I’m mourning all the chances I could have taken but was too scared
I’m mourning “I’m so scared of losing you”

I’m mourning the way you sip from a straw 
And all the wrong decisions I have made 
I’m mourning the thousands of words I have written for you
I’m mourning the days I’ve spent crying over you

I’m mourning the hours I couldn’t sleep over you
I’m mourning the songs I’ve sung 
And I’m mourning your eyes. 
I’m morning how you say roll your eyes after my jokes but love them nonetheless

I’m mourning “I want you to burden me”
I’m mourning all of the moments I just wanted to tell you you’re the most beautiful thing in the entire universe but I was too scared to
I’m mourning the way you look at me
I’m mourning all the letters I have written to you but cannot bring myself to send 

I’m mourning the way you smile after we kiss 
I’m mourning that you took me the way I am
I’m mourning “I feel safe with you” 
I’m mourning “how would you like to wake up to this every day next year?”

I’m mourning how despite all your darkness you were always like sunshine to me 

So forgive me, if I cannot be friends 
And forgive me, that you think I don’t want to be
Forgive me, but I am in mourning for all the futures I dreamt up and all the words I over-thought
Forgive me, for I am mourning the most beautiful dream

Mourning (spoken word poem)

Average at piano & singing; frequently bad at both. Notorious for recording rough drafts of originals then forgetting how to play them, or posting impatient unrehearsed covers. 

Don't expect quality (or quantity) here.

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