SONGWRITING PROGRAM WITH DONNA BRITTON BUKEVICZ
These are songs used in our program and written by the instructor, Donna Britton Bukevicz.

Donna is mentoring and collaborating with NSAI Coordinator & Berklee School of Boston Songwriter Robert Dale Klein in mentoring indie-artist Kevin Stanley.   This is from our songwriting session on 5/24/2016.


Better than Yesterday
(d.o.c.  5/25/2016)
Britton/Klein/Stanley/Stanley

The only good thing about a tunnel
Is the bright light shining at the end
The only good thing about heartbreak
Is that sweet relief lives around the bend

Pre-chorus
With ev’ry step step step I take
There's a little more color, a little less gray
I might still be a mess today,
But I'm better
Better than yesterday

Chorus (x2)
Better
Better than
Better than yesterday

Verse 2
The only good thing about a struggle 
Is it makes you stronger than you've been 
One great thing about tomorrow
Is that one more bruise on my heart will mend

Pre-chorus
Got some black black black and blue
Still hurts like hell, but I'm gettin' through
Might still be a mess today,
But I'm better
Better than yesterday

[Chorus (x2)]

[INSTRUMENTAL: play first two lines of Bridge chords, before singing Bridge lyrics]

Bridge
Always looking for a switch to flip
A way to give my mood an instant lift
But it don't work like that   (Still I'm)

[ALT:  Oh, it don’t work like that (But I’m)]

[Chorus (x2)]

This song is not owned by Allegro Community School of Arts but is used in the mentor program.  

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(c) 2016  All Rights Reserved
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Better Than Yesterday ft. Kevin Stanley

SONGWRITING PROGRAM WITH DONNA BRITTON BUKEVICZ
These are songs used in our program and written by the instructor, Donna Britton Bukevicz.

Featured vocalist:  Oscar contending vocalist & instructor. Donna Britton Bukevicz

Fearless
By Paul Reisler and Donna Britton
 (d.o.c. 5/25/2016)

What are you afraid of
There aren’t any monsters in the closet
No bogeyman to get you
No ghosts in white sheets, To say boo
So be fearless, be brave
No one’s looking anyway
‘cept you

Gotta be fearless
Gotta look it in the eye
If you really want to live
You’ve got to be willing to die
You might fall down
Make a fool of yourself
Fall flat on your face,
But you can never really fall
From grace (fearless, fearless, fearless

Fear can really feed you
Or shove you right back into your cave
make you climb the mountain
But don’t let it make you it’s slave
So be fearless, be brave
No one’s looking anyway
‘cept you

Chorus
Fear is it’s own living hell
It’s heartbreak hotel
It’s an unstable demon
That crucifies our dreamin’, so

Gotta be fearless
Gotta look it in the eye
If you really want to live
You’ve got to be willing to die
You might fall down
Make a fool of yourself
Fall flat on your face,
But you can never really fall
From grace


© Zoidsongs (ASCAP)/Mountain Row Music (ASCAP)
paul@paulreisler.com
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This song is not owned by Allegro Community School of Arts but is used in the mentor program.  

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Fearless (Songwriting work tape)

SONGWRITING PROGRAM WITH DONNA BRITTON BUKEVICZ
These are songs used in our program and written by the instructor, Donna Britton Bukevicz.

I LOVE YOU NOW 
DONNA BRITTON, BILLY AUSTIN & DAVE ROBBINS  
(d.o.c. 7/5/2012)  


 YOU AND YOUR ANGEL LOVE 
YOU GAVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAD TO GIVE ME AND MORE
I FEEL YOU BARELY HANGING ON 
TO SOMETHING THAT YOU FELT SO STRONG
BEFORE I LET YOU WALK AWAY
THERE’S SOMETHING I’VE JUST GOTTA SAY

YESTERDAY DON’T MATTER BABY
ALL WE NEED’S TOMORROW 
SINCE I FIGURED OUT, I LOVE YOU NOW
SO TAKE MY HAND AND DON’T LOOK BACK
CAUSE THAT WAS THEN 
AND I JUST WANNA SHOW YOU HOW
I LOVE YOU NOW 

YOU FOUND ME WHERE I FELL APART
THE EMBERS AND THE ASHES LEFT THEIR MARK ON ME
IT TOOK A LITTLE TIME TO HEAL 
LET THE BURN OF A BAD LOVE PEAL
YOU WERE PATIENT ALL THIS TIME 
FOR WHAT WAS YOURS THIS HEART OF MINE

-  CHORUS - 

SOMETIMES THE ROAD YOUR ON -  LEADS YOU HOME

 
 YESTERDAY DON’T MATTER BABY
ALL WE NEED’S TOMORROW, 
SINCE I FIGURED OUT,  I LOVE YOU NOW
SO TAKE MY HAND AND DON’T LOOK BACK
CAUSE THAT WAS THEN
AND I JUST WANNA SHOW YOU HOW
I LOVE YOU NOW  (REPEAT) 

540 272 9445 - www.donnabritton.com  - donnashadowmtn@gmail.com 
 Mountain Row Music (ASCAP),Songs of Platinum Pen (ASCAP, Uncle Beave Music (ASCAP)  
© 2016 All Rights Reserved

This song is not owned by Allegro Community School of Arts but is used in the mentor program.  

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I Love You Now (Country DUET)

SONGWRITING PROGRAM WITH DONNA BRITTON BUKEVICZ
These are songs used in our program and written by the instructor, Donna Britton Bukevicz.

Thank you
Written by Donna Britton Bukevicz & Robert Dale Klein
(c) 2016 All Rights Reserved
http://www.donnabritton.com 
This song is not owned by Allegro Community School of Arts but is used in the mentor program.  

http://www.allegrocsa.org

Thank You from the documentary Gratitude

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This Soundcloud page will feature songs written by the instructor, Donna Britton Bukevicz with billboard charting songwriters in Nashville,  and award winning writers in the DC/VA area.  Also featured will be songs written with emerging artists (like Kevin Stanley) and songs licensed in upcoming TV & Film projects like the song "Thank you" which is to be featured as the end credit in the documentary "Gratitude" produced by Jason O'Brien from Fast Lane Productions.    (scheduled for Fall 2016 Festival circuit and targeted for release at the world famous Sundance Film Festival)

This soundcloud will also feature original songs written with Allegro CSA students who participate in the Songwriting Program at Allegro Community School of the Arts.  

We will also feature songs performed by other instructors from Allegro CSA. 
 
If you are interested in learning more about this program or Allegro Community School of Arts, please visit us online at http://www.allegrocsa.org 