wow what a great vocal and nice rock solo work :)

Best tribute song ever. Your voice is amazing i love all the guitar licks esp the one highlighting the church organist line. So much here to celebrate. 🎉❤️👏🏼

Fantastic blues song! The no-job-is-too-anything blues. Are you a PK? That electric guitar is righteous, as are the hip-hip-hips.

This is spectacular. A blistering blues with a wonderful vocal performance! Well done!

Great angle for a song & top vocals, performance & production as per!!

I'm getting early Bonnie Raitt vibes in with this one. Congratulations to Rebecca on her retirement, and well done, Cabin of Love, with another incredible song!

THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I HEARD THE CHORUS.

Love the electric guitar, especially over the church organist line.  Super vocals!  And awesome idea for a song.

"Hit The Lights" (#370, 200703)

I can't wait much longer out here on my own
'Til my hands surrender and feet bring me back home
Swore that I could take it I was never givin' up
Didn't take too long to see that I'm all outta' luck

Hit the lights and cue the water works
Watch the world go by like no one knows it hurts
There's freedom somewhere out there but I'm stayin' in tonight
So before you shut the door on me go on hit the lights

To love you drove me crazy to leave you broke my heart
Guess I thought you'd save me but I made it pretty hard
Last words you spoke to me still ringin' in my mind
Never stay so long that you can't leave it all behind

Hit the lights and cue the water works
Watch the world go by like no one knows it hurts
There's freedom somewhere out there but I'm stayin' in tonight
So before you shut the door on me go on hit the lights

Maybe you'll regret it but I kinda' think you won't
You don't seem to miss me and I probably shoulda' known
That I'd stay stuck this way I don't know what else to do
But that ain't you

Week 27 - Hit The Lights (200703)

chorus
hit the lights

verse 1
Life is a stage 
Some of us fall off 
again and again and again
Act your age
Trying not to grow up
Again and again and again 

pre Ch
The Curtain goes up and I run a mile 
Far away far out of sight 
Forgetting my lines I freeze every time 
Until I hear them say
CH-Hit the lights 

V2
Life is a stage 
Some of us shine on 
again and again and again
At your age 
Take every moment 
Again and again and again 

The particles swoon inside the room
Caught in a brilliant white
Bathe in its bloom 
The shows not over 
Til you hear them say 
Hit the lights

the shows not over

hit the lights 27 SAW 20

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All Rights Reserved

Lyrics & Music: Erin Wolf
Guitar & Vocals: Erin Wolf

**The third song from the "Quarantine Sessions" side project connected with my Song-a-Week writing. The prompt from JTR for this song is "knowing what we know". This song has influences from a wide range of people and things. Hamilton lyrics, work pressures, heart heavy days, moments filled with light and laughter, new friendships and connections.**

la lo la lo lei

feeling heavy
scent is seeping
in my skin
perfume will win

feeling the weight of
expectation
on my shoulders
weigh like boulders

la lo la lo lei

feeling weary
bleak and dreary
say it with a sigh
*sigh*

feeling hope, though
knowing what we know
will this turn around
will light abound

la lo la lo lei

feeling my heartbeat
it's quickening
la lo la lo lei

feeling all these things
what will tomorrow bring
la lo la lo lei

la lo la lo lei

Knowing What We Know (La Lo)

"Don't Threaten Me" (#378, 200719)

Seems like today everything's a competition
From money and careers to huntin' and fishin'
If you're comin' after me I got a warning for you
When my back's against the wall I know exactly what to do

So don't threaten me because I'll kill you with kindness
Tell dad jokes 'til you're laughin', hug you 'til you're cryin'
As soon as you think I'm about to let up
I'll say somethin' sweet and you'll feel like a million bucks

Everybody wants to be a big deal
Top dog big cheese king of the hill
Doesn't seem to last though when we step on each other
So check it out if you come at me you'll see my true colors

Oh don't threaten me man I'll kill you with kindness
Tell dad jokes 'til you're laughin', hug you 'til you're cryin'
As soon as you think I'm about to let up
I'll say somethin' sweet and you'll feel like a million bucks

Here's an idea what if we work together
And rise above the rest in any kinda' weather
Show 'em how it's done they might learn a thing or two
But if not I'm gonna' tell 'em the same thing I told you

Week 30b - Don’t Threaten Me (200719)

Don't look away
Forget all the fire

Hold me on the way home
The cross won't count for nothing

I didn't want to be one
Laying all the way down
Keeping all the words in
Letting all the ghosts out

Don't walk away
Every time you're tired

Forget all the phone calls
Let's make it count for something

I didn't want to be one
Laying all the way down
Keeping all the words in
Letting all the ghosts out

So forget what I said
About leaving it behind

I didn't want to be one
I didn't want to be the one

There's a million singing that
And there's a million shouting back
It's either none
Or a million and one

I didn't want to be one
Laying all the way down
Keeping all the words in
Letting all the ghosts out

So forget what I said
About leaving it behind

I didn't want to be one
I didn't want to be the one

I didn't want to be one
I didn't want to say yes
I didn't want to be one
I couldn't let there be less

(then Kiwi barks softly)

Million and One - Song a Week 2020, Week 30

Week 30 #songaweek2020. For Julia's mom Rebecca Tindall, who retired this week! This is a list my dad and I compiled of jobs she’s had over the years. It may seem like a lot but I don’t think it’s exhaustive!

Photo is of my mother in 2013, by Tara Berg (TGB Photography)

Waiting on the truckers at the Hilltop Diner
Ironing some woman’s husband’s underwear
Making cases for the pill at the plastics factory
Baking shoo-fly pies and cutting college boys’ hair

Working like you mean it for fifty years
I propose to raise a hundred thousand cheers
Hip hip hip (hooray!)
Hip hip hip (hooray!)

Detective’s secretary, pastor’s wife
You supervised the laundromat and raised two kids
you processed appraisals, and some data for the glass plant
Taught yourself to be a church organist

Working like you mean it for fifty years
I propose to raise a hundred thousand cheers
Hip hip hip (hooray!)
Hip hip hip (hooray!)

Receptionist for engineers
Who smoked cigars while you were pregnant
Sewing sleeves on menswear 
working in the mail room 
Office work for school and church, real estate and college
And one insurance company that hired you three times

Working like you mean it for fifty years
I propose to raise a hundred thousand cheers
Hip hip hip (hooray!)
Hip hip hip (hooray!)
You could write a book on how to persevere
Go on and do whatever’s next, push those frontiers!

Working Like You Mean It

"Help Somebody" (#379, 200719)

 * Co-written with Pete & Pat Luboff * 

Ever get a feeling like everything is wrong
Everybody joined the club and you just don't belong
You're cold and lonely on the outside looking in
When it all feels like it's over where do you begin

Help somebody it'll turn your world around
Help somebody get your feet on solid ground
When you're down and out and upside down reach out to someone else
Help somebody and you help yourself
Help somebody and you help yourself

Got a God shaped hole and I can't fix it with food
Can't fill it up with money or drown it in booze
I dreamed someone could love me and make it all okay
Never knew there was a way out 'til I heard somebody say

Help somebody it'll turn your world around
Help somebody get your feet on solid ground
When you're down/out upside/down reach out to someone else
Help somebody and you help yourself
Help somebody and you help yourself

Maybe you think I've got it all together
Don't believe what you think you see
Because we could both get to feelin' better
If you'll help somebody like me

Week 30a - Help Somebody (200724)

Me, I never seem to see
Those creatures creeping up on me
Mostly in reality 
it's just my personality again
What if there are people peeping
That could give me trouble sleeping
And sluggish like a drunk
I’d be more vulnerable to monkeys on my back
But when I see them, I’m free….

Same old monkey, always worrying
Sometimes quietly, sometimes loud,
It's ok, monkey - I will handle it
You can put your burdens down now

If i leave it 
What will happen?
They might think I'm dot dot dot
Think I'd better make it better
Act in time to stop the rot
Unless it’s inside me?

Same old monkey, always worrying
Sometimes quietly, sometimes loud,
It's ok, monkey - I will handle it
You can put your burdens down now

Someday it'll all be over
Someday I won't be this monkey man
But I don't really think that 
someday it will be over - this is who I am 
I will end as I began
Same old same old

Same old monkey, always worrying
Sometimes quietly, sometimes loud,
It's ok, monkey - I will handle it
You can put your burdens down now

Ok Monkey

song a week wk30

sometimes I forget to breathe

SAW wk30 sometimes i forget to breathe

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All Rights Reserved

Lyrics & Music: Erin Wolf
Guitar & Vocals: Erin Wolf

Trigger Warning: This is a heavy song which alludes to conversations around suicidal thoughts and mental illness. It's no secret to anyone paying attention that the on-going pandemic, particularly here in the US, has taken a heavy toll on many people who were already in times of crisis beforehand. We need to be able to talk about mental health when we speak of suicide prevention. 

That said, the lyrics herein, while not referencing any one situation specifically (which was intentional), do not necessarily represent a comprehensive range of experiences depending on any given person's own context. If you or a loved one needs help, please, please try to gather your strength to ask for help so you and/or your loved one can receive the correct care needed. I promise--YOU are worth it. 

1-800-273-8255 - Suicide Hotline for the United States
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

five things you can see
can you tell me what you see
so i know where you are

four things you can touch
can you tell me what you touch
so i see your hands

three things you can hear
can you tell me what you hear
so i can touch the air

two things you can smell
please tell me what you smell
so i hear your voice

one thing you can taste
how bitter does this taste
'cuz i can smell your fear

the war's not over
but there are battles won
i know it's hard to keep pressing on
not just trying to keep you alive
wanna see you thrive, love

do you want it
do you will it

will you want it
will you will it
will you keep it
if you let it 

your life

can you can see it, touch it, hear it, smell it, taste it
your life

see it, touch it, hear it, smell it, taste it

do you want it
do you will it
will you will
will you keep it
will you let it
will you want
will you want it

do you keep it
will you let it
do you want it
do you live it

Do You Want It

My friend was friends with Steve Earle's sister
And the stories that she told about her telling stories
With second hand hearsay being small town gospel
Pray

At these times we should stop and wait
It's not my place to speculate
Think about the nothing that we make with time
And the something that we leave behind

You can take someone out of context, try to grow them straight
In the shade of burning trees a street or two away
You can take years to leave the ones before
You can take someone out of context, but when the context is a war
Sometimes it doesn't matter
Some die fighting losing battles

It's a wonder for those on the line
That anyone makes it to 29
Easy enough for me to say
The leaving behind, the nothing made
The thousand miles, the setting straight
The burning bright, praying for rain
The small town gospel gossip pray
The, hell, who am I to say

Not Waiting Around (Out of Context) - Song a Week 2020, Week 35

Acoustic folk, indie pop and the occasional rock&roll explosion all marbled together into original songs performed with pleasure.

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