Anagapesis (ft Rachel Debattista)

Wasting My Time

UK Songwriting Contest 2018: Semi Finalist (8/10)

Tables Turn

Cover of Bluedusksun's excellent song 'Big City Lights' (original here: https://soundcloud.com/bluedusksun-1/big-city-lights)

Entry for the Songwriters in the Kitchen 2018 Covers Challenge. https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/challenges/18/the-kitchen-cover-challenge-3rd-edition-please-join/4530/

Big City Lights [Bluedusksun cover]

Time Is The Enemy

- Finalist UK Songwriting Contest 2019
- Honorable Mention, Songdoor (Nashville) songwriting contest 2019

In the Morning

Service with a Smile

Next to Me (ft. Katze Königsberg)

Lockdown Blues (I Just Want To See You)

THE SONGWRITING CHALLENGE
This is a new category for 2020. We ask you to write a new lyric or a new melody to an existing famous song. The new lyric and the new melody will have exactly the same structure and metre so when the winning Lyric and the winning Melody are put together by the UKSC they will be a perfect fit and a new complete song is created. The UKSC will professionally record the resulting song for the winners! Simple but brilliant (if we do say so ourselves). The first classic song we have chosen to start this challenge is Yesterday by Paul McCartney. Paul had the melody for this song for some time before he had a flash of inspiration for the final lyrics while driving. Let us have your alternative Melody and Lyrics for this classic AABA song structure

Yesterday (UKSC Songwriting Challenge 2020)

Castles in the Air

The Toad

Music: Dan James & @Rachel_Debattista
Lyrics: @Rachel_Debattista

Lyrics:
Time flowed softly by,
Now nothing is left to tinge the path outside
Surf through the last of tides

The sweetest thoughts
are carried by your smile

It is now you get to see
What you might have missed
Hear the music play the tunes
That hid within the mist

Strumming to the beat
Carried by the wind

A state of…
Falling past the rigid edge of time
Straighten out your wings
Figure there’s no space for letting yourself down

Fly beyond the limits of your dreams
I can’t feel the earth
Holding down my feet
No more

It’s time, that hopes unite,
Untie the heavy feeling, let your heart ignite
A sense of life
Unblemished by the thoughts inside your mind

Far away from sight
Things may be unclear
Strategies have gone wrong
But you will seek to persevere

Carry on your track
One step at a time

Unblemished (ft. Rachel Debattista)

Underneath The Mask(1993)

🇬🇧 Songwriter

- Finalist, UK Songwriting Contest 2019
- Semi-Finalist, UK Songwriting Contest x 6
- Special Recognition, Songdoor 2020

Dan James

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