Five Seconds From A Panic Attack (Voice Memo Demo)

You listen one out of ten thousand times
I give an inch you take nine hundred miles
Fences and fortresses to keep you out
Turns out I only locked in myself

When will I, when will I learn 
When will I, when will I learn

It doesn’t matter what you think
Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t speak 
It doesn’t matter what you think
Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t speak

Feels like a bomb has gone off in my head
Made a mistake when I let you back in
Thoughts scattered round my mind’s going black
I’m five seconds from a panic attack

When will I, when will I learn 
When will I, when will I learn

It doesn’t matter what you think
Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t speak 
It doesn’t matter what you think
Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t speak

Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t speak 
Maybe we, maybe we shouldn’t.

Five Seconds From A Panic Attack

They make it look so easy on my TV
McSteamy and McDreamy doing rounds
Always checking on their patients
Yeah they listen and they hear them out

But it's different out here in the real world
No they aren't cute or sexy at all
And they only keep me waiting
Just to tell me that see nothing wrong

Chorus:
Not a single pill to swallow, not a single pill to swallow
Health care's just making money off of me
Not a single pill to swallow, not a single pill to swallow
Health care's just making money off of me

Bridge:
When did it come to this
Why am I so dismissed
Stop telling me to wait it out

What a waste of my time
How is this not a crime
Why won't you help me right now

Chorus

Nobody's gonna help me

Waiting (120922)

Work in progress

Without You

Walking through the cold the city streets
Missing you wondering if you'd be missing me
Swallow down words I never said
Let them eat away at my emptiness

Kicking rocks with my worn out shoes
Grey against a sky that today chose to be blue
Everyone's moving on with their lives
But I'm struggling I'm barely getting by

Why's it so hard to live
Why's it so hard to exist without you
Without you, without you

Close my eyes try to dream of you
Hoping I'll get it right the way you used to look
What am I supposed to believe
In a world that's taken you from me

Why's it so hard to live
Why's it so hard to exist without you
Without you, without you

Without You (121222)

The Open Highway

No point looking in the review it's up in flames
Eyes on the road ahead of you throw on your shades
All that's left is to step on the gas speed limit fast
Doesn't matter where you go just take a chance

Adventure awaits on the open highway
A strange new place where no one knows your name 
Adventure awaits on the open highway
A strange new place where no one knows your name 
On the open highway

BBChallengeJan24- The Open Highway

This came from a mini song-writing challenge. I transposed the chords of a given song to a new key and kept the original song's time signature change. I sang random words over the chords and then morphed them into something that made sense lyrically so that  I could play around with organizing my tracks in Logic and adding reverb.

March 2024 vmini challenge

This was written as a songwriting book club challenge. We all read a book (Mary Jane) then met to discuss it, and after that had one week to come up with a song. Here is mine!

A Lie For A Lie

Crash over me
Drag me down with your words
Til I can no longer hear
Any of my own thoughts
Brainwashed

Be what you need
Try to keep you happy
Watch me as I disappear
What do I think of that
Nothing left

Trying to survive
A lonely painful life
One lie at a time
A lie for a lie for a lie
A lie for a lie for a lie
I don’t know who I am with you
I don’t know who I’d be without you
I don’t know who I am with you
I don’t know who I’d be without you

Trying to survive
A lonely painful life
One lie at a time
A lie for a lie for a lie
A lie for a lie for a lie

A Lie For A Lie

If I

Courtney Val is a singer-songwriter located in Huntsville, AL. She loves writing lyrics and is often supervised by her cat and three dogs. 

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