This is a song about limits I've placed on myself based on what other people thought/think of me. I have to realize that I am much more than people's opinions and I encourage other people to do the same. 

"You're much more than you think you are..."

More Than You Think

I wrote this song in the summer of 2016 amidst all of the shooting, killings, and violent actions taken out on innocent men and women of color by police officers. There seems to be little to no accountability for these horrendous acts and no real way to protect oneself. 

You can obey orders and still be gunned down, 
You can be smoking in your own car and be thrown from your vehicle onto the ground and arrested for refusing to put it out. 
You can be broken down in the street and be approached and shot. 
You can be helping a person with special needs and still be shot at. 
You can be detained and shot in the back while handcuffed. 
You can be selling music in front of a convenience store (with the owner's permission) and be tackled to the ground, shot and killed. 
You can be suffocated for selling cigarettes. 
You can explain that you are reaching for your firearm and license and be shot and killed in front of your woman and child. 
You can send your son out to play with a toy gun and never see him alive again. 
You can walk through Wal-Mart and mind your business and just because someone deems you as suspicious, it can cost you your life. 
You can be walking down the street with candy and be shot by someone who is not trained, nor certified to serve and protect and he can get off free with a slap on the wrist. 
You can be shot dead in the middle of the street lying face down on cement and receive no medical attention because the person holding the gun thought his life was in danger. 
You can be beaten up as an off duty officer by your own colleagues. 
You can be handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police van with no seat belt or care and have your spine severed... 

And these are only the few cases that have been broad-casted on national television, not including the cases that are never brought to light and reported. Yet and still, very little has been done. 

If anything, the killings are insensitively justified or dismissed by comparing it to "black on black" crime (that's an entirely different discussion), or talking about what that person did to get in trouble in the first place. Walking down the street in a hoodie and holding skittles, playing outside with a toy gun, selling cigarettes, failing to signal when turning, walking around Wal-Mart, cooperating with officers, or an number of examples, both included and not, should never cost anyone their life. 

It doesn't matter if you obey the law, how "civil" you are, how educated,whether you have a wife and children, whether you communicate what you're doing, whether you're recording the entire incident... lives are lost and blood is shed... and there is still no justice. 

I wrote this song to express how helpless and hopeless I can feel.

Coldest Summer Nights

This is one of my favorite hymns. 
I love the words, mostly.
It also takes me back to Willow Grove, PA where my mother grew up with all of her siblings. We would sing this song regularly at the church up the street from her house on Sunday Mornings.

"Because He Lives" Quick Hymn Cover

I used my voice to cover some of the songs that mean the most to me. Enjoy this fun and free project.

Someday We'll All Be Free

In My Place

Because He Lives

Lovely Day

Is This Love

A musical rant about the struggles in life.

The Struggle

The Longest End

This is my rendition of Alicia Keys', "If I Ain'tGot you". I am singin th lead, but have help with the instrumentation.

The instrumentation used is from @AcoustiClub! Please check them out! They have awesome acoustic versions of amazing songs!

Find them Here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHzgOtxRzEl8ye3qEgitw

If I Aint Got You - Alicia Keys | Alecia Renece Cover

My Husband and I love The Lego Movie, so he requested that I cover the main song from that movie, "Everything is Awesome".

For more, visit www.aleciarenece.com/music.html

"Everything Is Awesome" The Lego Movie Cover

This is my rendition of George Micahel's, "Careless Whisper". I am singing the lead, but have help with the instrumentation.

The instrumentation used is from @AcoustiClub! Please check them out! They have awesome acoustic versions of amazing songs!

Find their YouTube Here:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHzgOtxRzEl8ye3qEgitw

"Careless Whisper" George Michael Acoustic | Alecia Renece Cover

Here is my cover of The Marvelette's "Please Mr. Postman"

I Do not own the rights to this song. 

For More Music and covers, Visit my website www.aleciarenece.com

"Please Mr. Postman" The Marvelettes | Alecia Renece Cover

We've all been there before. We're in love, we fall out of love and then your ex-love gets a new love. 

You're filled with angst and anxiety, wondering what she's got on you, if she's better than you, smarter, funnier... 

You made that man who he is. You feel like you built him up from scratch and now some other girl is reaping the benefits of your hard work and labor. 

It's not even that you want him back. You just want a simple THANK YOU. 

You wonder why he couldn't be that loving, that kind, that thoughtful and passionate when he was with you. Why didn't he fight to keep you? 

Didn't he know that you were a good thing?! 

But the truth is, you ARE a good thing, just not the good thing for him. Your worth never went down just because someone else came into the picture. 

Maybe the thoughts Jealousy and Envy whisper to you late at night, on Social Media, in friend circles, and worst, in your head and heart... are lies: 

You Are Worthy. 

It may be that just because he wasn't right for you, doesn't mean you are any less than beautiful, phenomenal, smart, talented, funny, fun, adventurous than the next woman. 

Maybe you don't have to compete or tear her down. Maybe you don't have to come up with vile and hurtful things to say to and about her. Maybe she doesn't even know he was trash... and maybe he's not horrible anymore. 

And Maybe...Just Maybe you both can have worth... even if he chooses not to see yours anymore. Even if that hurts. 

If you can relate to ANY of this... this song is for YOU.

MATTER EP

Alecia Renece - You're Welcome

We've all been there before. We're in love, we fall out of love and then your ex-love gets a new love.

Our friends break our hearts.

We break ourselves into pieces to be loved by others.

We lose our true selves trying to be everything for everyone else.

Pain, Anger and Shame haunt us in our sleep and gnaw at us in our waking hours. We run and hide in hopes that one day they will leave us alone allowing us to finally be healed. But what if our healing begins with actually feeling and accepting them?

In this collection of music, Alecia Renece candidly expresses common heartbreaking themes that we are afraid to explore ourselves.

Whether you have lost a friend, lover or even yourself, Alecia Renece wrote this for the contemplative, curious and healing soul.

She wrote this for you.

Make Me Your Own

The Sun Will Rise

This project is called "Play" simply because I had a great time covering and performing my interpretations of these song that I love.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Everybody Plays The Fool

Don't Worry Baby

Baby I Need Your Loving

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You

This album was made out of the need to have fun.

Play Volume Two

I cover and remix songs that I really enjoy and my hope is that you enjoy them too.

Mr. Postman

Be My Baby

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Heard it Through The Grapevine

Everything is Awesome

A huge smile and a bigger heart.
Multi-Passionate Artist. 
Photographer, Singer, Songwriter, Writer, Founder of The Full Well Project, Host of Podcast "#The Fear Fight", and many other things.

Alecia Renece

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