WAVING

Copyright 2022 Watson/O'Brien/Carie; All Rights Reserved
Music by Bobby Watson and Jen Carie; Lyrics by Alex O'Brien

Bobby Watson: guitars, drums, 
Jen Carie: vocals and backing vocals
Steve Johnson: bass, keyboards, strings
Tom Hellsten: engineering mixing and mastering
Alex O'Brien: project management

Lying cold and shrunken
Body red and blue
He once stood tall and handsome
He once stood proud and true
And now he lies there shaking
Lost in another land
Still fighting, waving
His dying hand

We’re all around the bedside 
Holding back the tears
Holding tight his fingers
We’re just helpless children
And he looks like a child
Full of old dreams and fears

Waving to a world he knew
To a sky once blue
Waving to that special girl
He’ll now see in that world
And I’m waving to a man I knew
To a life he lived so true
One last goodbye
Why do loved ones have to die?

All around the casket
We say our final prayer
The cross shining bright
I can tell God cares
I remember seeing
Grandpa’s smiling eyes
As I say goodbye

Goodbye

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: July 31, 2024

Waving

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).

Waving

AlexEOB