this is so cool-love the tempo shifts-and the message is great. :)

This has gotta' be the most fun song I've heard so far in 2021. Intelligent lyrics but so joyful and playful. Not to mention the guitar is warm but precise, and your voice is friendly but also knowing.

My problem all year is that I keep on making complete three hundred and sixties.

I like the dynamic of the slower verses, and the more upbeat chorus.

This is a really clever and fun tune, Claes. I'm a fan of the tempo changes. Gotta try this sometime.

Love the harmonics notes ( My mother in law must have heard this Claes. She just bought a lab!! 

Cool song Claes.  I really like the changeup in the chorus

Copyright 2021 Owen Ryan, Milwaukee, WI & Erin Wolf, Little Chute, WI 

Guitar: Owen Ryan
Lyrics/Vocals: Erin Wolf

Week 12 Prompt: We Used to be Strangers

*Note about the song: This is a super special collaboration. Owen is one of my former youth group students from my earliest days in youth ministry and one hell of an incredible person today. He dropped this guitar instrumental on Facebook recently and was super cool in letting me write lyrics & sing along.*

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

we used to be strangers
ships passed in the night
searchlight going showing
all the depths in their might

carve a space here
feel this heartbeat of mine
no need to fear
all we have now is 
time

hear your name carry
over the sea
through waters dark and cloudy
calling from the deep

let my voice sing
you to sleep
let it ring
promise you can keep
home

Strangers (with Owen Ryan)

Monday I’m living in peace 
Thank God he makes kings and queens 
And many things 
So we can prosper over our things 
In between them I’m green 
Diamonds go bling 

Chorus:  
We trust G.O.D. 
Best believe he thy’d 
So when he comes around 
We are the kings 

Verse: 
On Fridays We are in NFL - Never Forgetting Loyalty 
Loyalty is true 
When I’m here with you 
I forget to feel so blue 
I jumped out of outer space to be the bling and the ring 

Chorus:  
We trust G.O.D. 
Best believe he thy’d 
So when he comes around 
We are the kings 

Bridge: 
 I don’t need a silly thing 
Or anything to feel what it’s like to be with you 
I feel the ocean breeze down to my knees 
Where I come to peace with with kings and queens
You can kiss my superbowl ring 

Chorus:  
We trust G.O.D. 
Best believe he thy’d 
So when he comes around 
We are the kings

NFL in Peace A 05-05-25

Like a ship to the shore
The waves to the waiting wild
Tell me something more
Honey, I’ve been waiting a while

To hear your call
A siren on the sea
Wondering if after all
You were wondering

Carved here out of stone
Built a searching light
You called me on the phone
Said we were ships passed in the night

If it’s what you’re looking for
Darling, I am the shore

I’m not going anywhere

Ship To Shore - Song a Week 2020, Week 48

Hundred times I've been here
Each time I forget
Doesn't make me stronger 
But it hasn't killed me yet
It's just a fear - it's just a fear

Starts out sweet and loving
I'm like a little boy,
pushing comes to shoving
She'll hate me and destroy me
That's the fear - it's just a fear

But it lingers like a gho-o-ost - just like a giant ghost
And it rises over and over, like a giant ghost

fading with the winter, 
a familiar story starts
“It’s more than I can handle
And they’ll hate me if    I can’t”
It’s just a fear - it’s just a fear
But it hovers behind me like a ghost
And it rises - rises behind me just like a ghost

But Tiger, Tiger, I know you know it isn’t true
That’s not how they talk to you anymore
Pants on fire - that ghost’s a liar you know
& Tiger, Tiger, you’re the one burning bright
In the forests in the night
Shine a light and all those old shadows go away

Hundred times I've been here
But each time i forget
Doesn't make me stronger 
But it hasn't killed me yet
It's just a fear - it's just a fear
It's just a fear - it's just a fear

Fear

WEEK 3
CAPO 5
Without you (Cold Morning Coffee)

my cold morning coffee consoles me alone
although it is tasteless it still echoes home
the place where together we’d never let go
a love that would warm me and make me all known
 
  G
Without you 
                                 D
I don’t know what to do
                                         C
Really haven’t even got a clue
                                          G                          D
Can’t even find a pair of matching shoes to wear

G
Without you 
                                            D
my heart’s turned inside out
                                                                            C
like a dry n dusty cattle station dam deep in drought
                                                                G
and even when it rains I’ll choose to go without...  You
                                 D   
my cold morning coffee for now will suffice
provide me a shot of its black inky vice
until I awaken and re-enter life
qualified doubtful disorganised wife

WITHOUT YOU(COLD MORNING COFFEE)

Collaboration with David and Laurie Easterling.

I took a chord progression David came up with as we were starting to collaborate, then brainstormed the first draft of the lyrics. Then David edited the lyrics to fit his way of singing it and we chiseled down extra stanzas to fit to length (not necessarily in that order).  I'll probably record another version sometime soon to improve the mix between the video's audio and the audio into DAW, possibly adding drums, bass too.

Songbird- McDoniels-Easterling Co-write

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021

Week 4 Prompt - Help Yourself
Video: https://youtu.be/WZAhXb-qQZI

i bet you couldn't help yourself
you say as you laugh at me
moments like this are my favorite part
of days together down by the sea

we don't know, we never know
what the future will hold
all i know is i hope i'm still with you
when we're wrinkly, grey, and old

and oh woah oh
a love like this worth waiting for
oh woah oh
a love that always gives us more

oh woah oh
oh woah oh

and as we sit here beside the fire
warm summer breeze moves the air
i listen as your voice sweetly sings
songs from when we lived on prayers

no matter what tomorrow brings
i know we'll make it through alright
you and me, side-by-side
oh this future's looking bright

and oh woah oh
a love like this worth fighting for
oh woah oh
a love that makes our dreams soar

and oh woah oh
a love like this worth waiting for
oh woah oh
a love that makes us want more

oh woah oh
oh woah oh

A Love Like This

Days and days of grey and overcast
Waiting for this goddamn storm to pass
Trying, not to, fall into the mud
Bleak midwinter cold the trees are bare
Feeling like the sky is looking there
Heart is sinking into the flood
But I swore to myself that when the sun came out I'd sing and play

And there's blue in the sky today
---
Black clouds got the best of yesterday
Spring could be a hundred days away
Trudge that path to happy destiny
I can be a grumpy son-of-a-bitch
Grateful for the way you handle it
Trying to seek out the best in me
And I promised myself that when your love arrived I'd sing hooray

And there's blue in the sky today
---
And EVery time I think I went too far you walk me back
And every TIME that I get LOST you help to GET me back on track
And anyTHING I tried to MAKE it fell part ‘til I FOUND you
Then right on cue… the sun came shining through

And there's blue in the sky x4 today

Blue In The Sky

Song-A-Week 2021 week 4 contribution.

Don't sit around
nursing that slow gin, it's slowing down everything
Don't sit around
starring at the screen, it's just a hole to fall in
II: Don't sit around
but help yourself to what the world has got to offer
Don't sit around
waiting for the world to come to you, here's what you do:

Cross the floor, walk out the door, hail a cab, buy a black Lab
Take her for a walk, have a little talk with your friends and neighbors
Hit the gym (muscles kicking in), run a good mile or dance without style
Bike that trail, spot a whale, take a boat out for a sail

It's all there for the taking
just help yourself, and you'll be making
a complete one-hundred-and-eighty

Don't sit around
with your head in the past, the past doesn't last
Don't sit around
worrying 'bout what's ahead, tomorrow you might be dead, so :II

Song AND image Copyright © Claes Akerblom

180 Degrees (demo)

[Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/whiskey-bar-alcohol-glass-scotch-315178/, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en]

Donna Piano: https://soundcloud.com/donna-piano

Erin Wolf: https://soundcloud.com/erinwolf

Sin Or Whisky (by Donna Piano, with Erin Wolf)

"Fountains Foundations & Frontiers" (#443, 210305)

Concrete in the mixer spinning round and round
Two by fours in ditches dug into the ground
Sweat rolls down the faces squinting in the sun
At what they created in a cloud of dust

Sculpture in the center posing with a dove
Shaded by the shelter of cirrus clouds above 
Fishes in the water frozen as the sky
Waiting on the winter underneath the ice

Modern man must imitate the screen 
Even if we don't know what it means
On the edge we stare at the abyss
And wonder who made this

Somewhere in the desert where there they built no road
Is my buried treasure that's where I will go
Leave behind this palace let this place decay
Find myself a cabin dream the days away

Week 10b - Fountains Foundations & Frontiers (210305)

Mainly a guitarist, and sometimes singer-songwriter, I am influenced mostly by the singer-songwriters from the 60's and early 70's.

180 Degrees (demo)

Claes

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