Older piece I never finished. I like. 

"Just Thought I'd Let You Know" lyrics
Bri Bruce © 2015-2016

"V1
Repeat-running conversations with you through my head
Picking future phrasing listening to all you’ve said
and that’s not me or at least it’s not who I wanna be
should keep my silence or trust you with what I really mean

V2
I do this thing where I fall intense-with-no-sense in love
It hurts as much as time so I need you to use kidgloves
the strength’s an act, a choice I’m told I wear it very well
Love me more than for that stupid, shallow, shifty spell	
	Inside I quiver like a breeze-brushed bell

Chorus
But I don’t know I don’t know
I think I know how this story goes
but I can’t read you
 
I don’t know I don’t know 
I’m going hard or I’m going home
And I, just thought I’d let you know

other verse options:

Since we’ve been friends I’ve always known one day I would want more
And then you came last night, my wish standing outside my door
it took you all the night to lose the fright for one sweet kiss
it gave me tingles but it wasn’t anything like this

If you’re scared then take my hand your fear against my skin
you’ll like it soft I know because I know I like it slow
that’s not the same you’d say and I could like my hips roll
they answer better than these silly words could ever hope

I want to silver-platter offer you a single phrase
Its perfect brevity enclosing what I cannot say
It’s easier to rhyme than lift my longing in the air
Maybe I’ll find the time to just pretend that I don’t care

That shooting star we saw was all ever I need of why
It’s everything and some days barely even gets me by
I’d like to know how deep you’ll go cuz I am kinda shy
when not in lipstick I can barely look you in the eye

if you want to chat I think I need it in a rap
it’s not a competition just a way of talking back
the left-brain structure juxtaposes against flowy right
that’s those emotions that want all of us with all my might"




"Just Thought I'd Let You Know" - Bri Bruce

Older song. Narrates itself!

Stupid Brave 
lyrics Bri Bruce © 2012 or '13

Thursday, lunch date
pb&h honey wheat, smiling sweet, blushing lookin’ at my feet
when it’s time to leave you look at me &    wink
“wanna head over to the park across the street?”

after our lunch, in the park on our backs
in my work dress and heels lying in the grass
we’re starin’ at the clouds and we’re talkin’ bout our dreams
i kinda hope you might be thinking of me 

Chorus
I don’t wanna be cautious
I want somebody to get lost in
Want someone who’’ll dive in
sink or swim
play to win
I want someone who gets excited
doesn’t hide it, try to fight it
I am scared and      unafraid
I...am stupid brave"

There's another set of verses and a rap-break part as well. 

That relationship didn't pan out btw. I'm still stupidbrave. 


"stupidbrave" - Bri Bruce

Just because I say nothing or am away, does not mean I am not praying for you, sending you love or positive energy -- or something in the mail soon! (for those of you who know me)

Written for my family, biological and extending and growing every day. 

Silent Love
Bri Bruce © 2015
"And the day came"... -Anaïs Nin

"I think about you every day
I think about you every way
you don’t know how my heart prays
Wait ain’t that godly, no our fathers, just your face
on my mantleplace i got you framed
and when i see it i inflate and
and breathe you love

Silent Love
lifts me 
up You are family to me
I think of many when i sing
ain’t a limit
to what my heart can fit in it
and you’re set
won’t let 
you go 

I stay and stay and stay and stay
from romance i may runaway and maybe can mean that too one day
but for you, my friend, a stranger I just met, my sister Britt, someone who quit or got sick or wicked or mixed up messed up
I just wanna say
'you’re tough' 'You're enough'"

etc
∞



"this silent love" - Bri Bruce

At the time I wrote this, it felt so vulnerable I couldn't share it.

Even if/when it doesn't seem it, I'm usually playing it "tougher" than I feel inside. Even when I'm saying that out loud. 

Hold Me Tonight
Bri Bruce © 2015-2016

"sometimes i cry when everything is fine
hold me tonight
just need you to hold me tonight

tell me everything is fine, tell me i'm allright 
even if i’m falling apart you still like me might even wife me
well don’t say that bit cuz i’ll panic
but sometimes yeah i’m thinking it
can’t help it
youre my boo and there’s nothing else i can do

except love you
so hold me tonight"


"Hold Me Tonight" - Bri Bruce

"Daddy" - Bri Bruce (in progress)

Pouring Out (Chillplay)

Soft

First draft.

Building, building...skills...and sounds...and generally gettin' down. 

Slipping Away (first draft)

We don't really *have* to care for much more than our self and bloodline. (If that.) 

This song honors those, though, who -- like its honoraries King, Debbie and Em -- choose to go above and beyond the minimum amount of concern for a person and love openly, despite genetics, creed, it being Monday... etc. 

It's a bold act, a brave one, in this world. And I thank all the surrogate parents loving all the children without a Day in their honor. 

Working lyrics, © Bri Bruce 2016 I reckon, but you can use if you want and/or want to work on this with me:
"This one's for you
for those of you who do not have a day
for those whom when the radio plays
songs to a Dad you turn away

this one's for you
for those of you who do not get a song
those of you without titles like Mom
but did and/or would still drop me off

and honestly i'm scared to sleep at night
and honestly don't wanna open my eyes
and honestly i'm scared to sleep at night
but honestly i have a real reprise
your kindness makes me glad to stay alive
(and be silly
so you know what)

this one is for you

thanks for all that each of you do
i wouldnt be here without you and i still don't have a clue
but i know i can always count on you and that more than meds gets me through
this and every day and moments and i'll sing until i'm blue
thank you

this one's for you"



Surrogate Parents - May 8 draft

A song sketch in honor of my friend Kirby, whose intentions always seem genuine. 

"The Kirby Song (Digging Deep)" song sketch

At 25 I fell in love with sound and a year later quit my desk job. 

2ish yrs later...
New Skills!: songwriting; lyrics; vocals in diff. styles; performing;  keyboard; acoustic guitar; harmonica; dance; djembe; small percussion, and -- MOST IMPORTANTLY -- 
riffs that moooooooove people. 

Dancing since I was two, music has always moved me. Literally. I write/compose/sing/live from that place. I want it raw, real, and I want it to make me moooooove. 

I love most everything but screechy sounds. 

And I need help. Co-writers, anyone?

(Currently I have about 100 pieces of music built with Logic Pro 9, now Logic Pro X files, which I slightly despise. Some finished; some not.)