This was the first song I wrote when I began playing my guitars again. After a 30 year layoff I was happy to know I could still write. I have been writing ever since.

I Love That Girl

I Love That Girl by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song is one of my favorites. Originally this was two different songs. I learned from The Beatles to tie songs together if they weren’t completed. It worked perfectly with these two songs. I do everything on my recording from creating the song, playing all the instruments and singing. I also produce my music. I hope you enjoy it.  I fell in love with the mandolin on this song.

Streets of my Hometown

The Streets of my Hometown by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

If I was asked what was my best song it would be this one. Whenever I played this song live I would see tears in most of the men’s eyes. It hit a nerve. It came about when one morning I woke after a dream. It was so real that everywhere I turned I saw her face. Memories can be a curse or a blessing. This song I named ‘Your Memory’.

Your Memory

Your Memory By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song came about one day as I just started to write down my emotions. In my younger days it was the only way I knew how to deal with emotions. I would just write without allowing my mind taking over. So my purest emotion would roll out. I call thus ‘I Wrote my Feelings Down Today’.

I Wrote my Feelings Down Today

I Wrote my Feelings Down Today by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was one of my earliest songs written for the women who would be my wife.

Bright Eyes (Live)

Bright Eyes (Live) by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song belongs in a movie. It’s about a young sailor who meets a girl from a world far from his. This was the relationship that formed me artistically. It is meeting the right person at the right time to get you to where you are today.

I Need to Know If You're Happy Now

I Need to Know If You're Happy Now By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was the third song I had ever written. I was all of 20 years old. I woke from a dream that was all to real. This dream wouldn’t materialize until decades later. I wrote three songs on my first day. If you listen to them today, you would believe I was looking back. It was the script to my life.

I Set Her Free

I Set Her Free by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song tells the story of how blind love makes us. This started with a phone call and end with the sad reality. All her promises were left empty.

I Don't Want to Lose You

I Don't Want to Lose You By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was the 2nd song after the 30 year hiatus. This is the story of the death of my marriage to the only person to really ever know me Robin. Who was part of my life since 1979 to 2016.

It Only Goes to Show

It Only Goes to Show (Live) by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This is a song I wrote many years ago. It spoke about a relationship I would have with a younger woman.  I  always assumed it was for my x wife whom I was 9 years her senior. It called ‘I Think You’re Beautiful’. True love is known by the fruit it produces

Other Loves

I Think You’re Beautiful

I Think You’re Beautiful by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was a song that I forgot about until a lyrics book was found in my childhood home. The song was written about a late night call from an old flame.

I Never Really Realize

I Never Really Realize by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song was one of my personal favorites. It tells the story of a hidden love that I waited 9 years to finally obtain. We used the Seagull to represent the hidden love.

Fly Seagull Fly

Fly Seagull Fly By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music.m4a

I found that the best version of this song is. When it is just me and my 12 String. This song came about because I found the beginning of the end of my life long relationship.

Away Isn't That How it Started? Live

Away - Isn’t That How it Started? (Live) By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

I got back into music after the split with my lifelong wife and friend and myself in 2016. This would be the first song out of the beginning of five years of self evaluation. Many tears are the foundation to many composer's music. When I had originally recorded this I was in a very confused and hurtful position. On the original recording my voice cracks from the emotional stress of the song but I thought it was appropriate at the time and I left it in. I was told that she felt I didn’t Love her anymore. I told her that I will tell the entire world just how much I love you. That I did. All this music is mostly my love letters to my Wife. When I perform live I will call my show that ‘Love Letters to my Wife’. To whom all this was created for. I am a Cancer which makes me a Crab. When I grab on to something I don't let go to the point of loss of limb.

Love's Been Away From Me

Love’s Been Away From Me by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

I wrote this the night John Lennon was murdered. I lived in Massachusetts and I was watching the pathetic Patriots when I heard. Like the rest of the world I was in shock. I used two songs he cowrote with Paul McCartney and John's wife Yoko Ono as lead into my song and then at the end.

Used in this song:
Across the Universe by Lennon/McCartney/Ono
Imagine by John and Yoko Ono Lennon

Dear John What Went Wrong

Dear John

Dear John By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song was written sitting on my porch with the girl that would one day give me a family. I knew how it ended before it started.

I'm Gonna Miss Your Love

I’m Going to Miss Your Love by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This song was written in August 2021. The song came to me completely written words included the way you are hearing it. I did have the actual version live the night it came to me. I did post that Live version for a few months. If the response to this is large I will release the live version again. Receiving a song in it’s entirety means I was just the presenter. I won’t change a single word.

Because, I'd Miss My Girl

Because, I’d Miss My Girl by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

As we get to the age of the final quarter of life. I found it is time to reflect on my past. My relationships although there weren’t many of them. They all had one thing in common. They walked away.

The Same Old Storyline

The Same Old Storyline Dave 🌎 Hanrahan

This is one of a handful of songs which came to me complete. I leave them as I received them. I am more an instrument used then a writer.

You're so Confused

You're So Confused by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This is one of those songs that’s started with a riff and keeps on growing. Deep in the woods at 3am in New Hampshire the bears are coming out of hibernation early to hear what they were missing.

Rock Cacandy

Rock Cacandy by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was a song written with my mentor Terry L. Walters the summer I spent with him and his lovely wife Dawn in Lansing, Mi. Terry would strum a chord progression and I would sing a melody. When two musician are in sync there is nothing better.

I Hear You Calling

I Hear You Calling by Terry L. Walters and Dave Hanrahan

This line just came to me ‘It’s far too late to be writing any love songs’. I had to write a song. I reached a point where I couldn’t find it in me to write a Love song.

Far Too Late

It’s Far Too Late by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was the first new song I wrote after my long hiatus. It is the first of many since I unpacked my instruments in November 2019.

She Drives me Crazy

She Drives Me Crazy by Dave Hanrahan Music

In each life we are guaranteed two things. Death and heartache. This was my first experience with heartache which at the time felt like death.

Wait for May

Wait For May by Dave Hanrahan Music

A few months back I was browsing social media when a face from my past popped up. One of those faces that can take you back to a time. That is the inspiration for this song.

I've Been Alone Far Too Long

I’ve Been Alone Far To Long by Dave Hanrahan Music

This song goes out to the one who saw the artist in me. To keep me inspired, she’d leave me every couple of months. We would then reunite and I would play all the new songs about how she hurt me. When the music got stale. She’d leave me again. It may not have been a healthy relationship, but it produced. I am being funny, but it does ring some truth.

Linda More Then Just a Name by Dave Hanrahan

This is my latest song. It tells of the last 7 years of my life. This time was spent looking inward and not outward for what I need. I got all the answers for the questions I carried through life. I was so wrong in my understanding of the truth that had warped my perception of people and circumstances of my youth. My life could have been much different.

Not Without You by Dave Hanrahan Music

In the course of a several years of on again, off again relationships with someone I truly loved. When we would be on again. I would sing the new songs from my last off again period. This was the only song that she didn’t like.

Now, It’s All Over by Dave Hanrahan Music

This song came about talking to my wife after our split. I asked her ‘How did I fall so far so fast’.

Hey Lady! By Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

It is Finished by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was my very first song written at 20 years old at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington.

Baby Please Don’t Go by Dave Hanrahan

This was someone I met during my dating days.

Boat Girl by DAVE HANRAHAN 🌎 MUSIC

This song came to me just as you hear it. I recorded this on iPad. It talks about my life’s mission and girl that will be with me.

I’d Miss My Girl (Live) by Dave Hanrahan Music

Leaving Humanities Final Words. 

When Great Music Isn’t Heard
Then Everybody Loses.

Imagination causes Creation
Through Vibration.

Music is a Force for Creation

Banding Musicians Together Today

The Last Human Songwriters 

How sad to realize that we are in the last days of the human race. Meaning the final Composers, Artist & Performer are currently on this planet. Ai will be responsible for all the muzak within five years. They are weaning emotions out of music. 

We are humanity’s last breath. Let’s remind them future trans humans of what they lost. If they are ever allowed to hear it at all. We need to leave our Mark! 

My name is Dave Hanrahan. I was born and raised in Watertown, Massachusetts. I was the only son in a family of four children. At 7 years old my father was killed. I was the only son and now I would navigate my life rudderless. An alien in the house of estrogen. It was the weekend the Beatles played Ed Sullivan, February 9, 1964. Thus tying my life to theirs. Instant male role models. 

At 20, I was serving in the Navy. I was stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, Wa. In 1976. When I was heading into my barracks I heard someone playing Hotel California across from me. I met my mentor that day, Terry Walters. I bought a Yamaha 6 string acoustic guitar and one music book. The Beatles Compleat. I practice for hours upon hours. After a few months I wanted to try writing. On my first attempt I wrote 3 songs.  I believe I found patterns in playing only the Beatles for those first few years. I was off and running. 

I am a singer/songwriter from a different era. I had written close to 80 songs when I laid everything down to become a husband and a father in 1989. I laid it down because I desired a family more then anything in life, certainly more then fame.  My Guitar I had written the majority of those songs on was stolen and I walked away. 

In November of 2019, I unpacked my instruments after a 30 year hiatus. I bought a Taylor 12 String and began to earn my calluses. I wasn't certain if I could even recall the chords to most of my music. It was all in my head. I can't read or write a note to this day. Muscle memory I was happy to find is a fact even after 30 years. My musician friend Dean when I told him my 1977 Giannini Craviola 12 String got stolen in 1987. He asked me if I checked eBay. This is 32 years later. That is a rare guitar. I went on eBay that day and found it. It was my serial number. 

I began practicing countless hours a day for about six weeks when suddenly, a song popped into my head. It was in a style that even I was unfamiliar with. My Giannini and I picked up where We left off. Then Covid gave me more time to practice. I haven't stopped writing since that day just over three and a half years ago. I have well over 50 more songs to produce to ensure my entire catalog has been recorded. I have that many on my page for all to hear now for free.

 Vision 👀
To create a new Music Industry run and operated by Human Artists only. I am a Life Path 1, so have no doubt I will get it done or it’s artificial intelligence soulless Muzak for everybody. New artist are being ignored. This is by design. Music comes from the heart. Filled with emotions which A. I. The heartless, soulless machine with never be able to produce. Music is a force of creation given by The Creator. The Authentic Intelligence God. 

I am here to do a job, At my juncture in life I hope it obvious it isn’t for the fame and fortune. We are musicians and artists first and foremost. We are those who help steer the collective consciousness. I picked up this mantle in December of 1980. The night I wrote ‘Dear John’. 

Music is a force for creation.


Dave Hanrahan

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