EVERY BRAVE HEART FINDS A WAY

Copyright 2023 Shouse/O'Brien/Bradley/Licata/Moretti
Music by Steve Shouse, Richard Bradley, Mario Licata, France Moretti
Lyrics by Alex O'Brien, SOCAN; All Rights Reserved

Steve Shouse: guitar, keyboards
Richard Bradley: lead guitar, engineering, production
Mario Licata: bass
France Moretti: vocals and backing vocals

Somewhere Eric Clapton 
Is playing his guitar
Somewhere a young boy
Is practicing so hard
Somewhere Meryl Streep
Is reciting her next role
Somewhere a young girl
Dreams of Oscar gold

Does your mind need a rest?
Your lips a sweet caress?
I’m bored and lost and wondering what to say
But most days I feel blessed

Somewhere William Shakespeare
Is writing us a play
Somewhere a young author
Is being born each day
Somewhere John F Kennedy
Found his Camelot
Somewhere a young leader
Fights for what he fought

Does your mind need a rest?
Your lips a sweet caress?
I’m bored and lost and wondering what to say
But most days I feel blessed

Somewhere Eric Clapton 
Is playing his guitar
Somewhere a young boy
Is practicing so hard
Somewhere Meryl Streep
Is reciting her next role
Somewhere a young girl
Dreams of Oscar gold

Every brace heart finds a way
Every brave heart 
Every brave heart finds a way

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: August 29, 2023

Every Brave Heart Finds a Way

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

Every Brave Heart Finds a Way

AlexEOB