A random collaboration turned amazing!

'Breaking News' (lyrics by Deanna Sweidel (c)2019 Music by Cola (c) 2022)
Breaking News
Lyrics by @deannasweidel

Breaking news
I’m heading in
For makeup and hair curled

Breaking news
I’m in the chair
Gotta tell the world

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When it all goes wrong
When bad things happen
It’s me who tells the nation
When fear incites
When you need to know
It’s me on your tv station

Breaking news
The world is rough
But I have to smile through

Breaking news
I read the words
What, where when and who

CH

Just one day
I want to read
‘Bout happiness and glee

Just one day
I want to go
Without a shooting spree

CH

Breaking news
I’m heading in
A nation’s feelings swirled

Breaking news
I’m in the chair
More bad news to tell the world

Breaking News By Deanna Sweidel And Cola

This was a collaboration with Susan. I wrote the lyrics, she did the music and vocals.

Lyrics (c)2023 Deanna Sweidel
It reveals all secrets
It tells no lies
It can run out or be wasted
And it surely can fly

It can be bad or good
It can steal like a thief
It can drag on and on
Or can seem very brief
Chorus
Has a mind of its own
It’s cruel and it’s kind
And there’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough time

You can try to kill it but
You can’t turn it back
It can be on your side
When you keep it on track

Heard the third one’s a charm
On it you can dwell
You can borrow more to live
But only time will tell

Chorus
Has a beat of its own
It can mess with your mind
And there’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough time

Bridge
You can make up, for what is lost
And spend it all in one place
But you'll never really get it back
‘Cause time will always win the race

Chorus
Has a mind of its own
And to waste it’s a crime
Because there’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough time
Oh there’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough time

Never Enough (c)2023 Sweidel/Heslin

BorrowedTime (c)Sweidel/Elliot

Anger is red
Sadness is blue
I feel both of these 
When I look at you

How could you hurt
Me like you do
I love and I hate
All things about you

Anger is red
Sadness is blue
This pain that I feel
Is because of you

Anger Is Red Piano

Klaus revamped the middle and added a track and vocals. Much better!

Anger - Is - Red - Deanna - Sweidel - With - Klaus - 5090 - 2023

A 50/90 collab between me, Paul and Craig. Too good not to share!

Walking My Way (c) 2020 Sweidel/Hudson/Suiter

Thanks to Corey Stewart for amazing music and vocals (as usual)

Dreaming Only Leads To Sorrow
(c) 2020 Lyrics Deanna Sweidel
(c) 2020 Music Corey Stewart

I loved you once and you loved me
Something wasn’t meant to be
And like a ship lost out at sea
We drifted but were never free

Dreaming only leads to sorrow
Knowing there was no tomorrow
For time is just a thing we borrow
While our love we’d both outgrow

Now many years have come and gone
And darkness has succumb to dawn
The death of our once paragon
Reveals the truth of moving on

Dreaming only leads to sorrow
Knowing there was no tomorrow
For time is just a thing we borrow
While our love we’d both outgrow

You promised once to grant my dreams
Wrapped with a porch, white picket theme
Old woodwork and some hefty beams
Were not enough or so it seems

Dreaming only leads to sorrow
I knew that there was no tomorrow
Time was just a thing we borrowed
For the new life we’re bestowed

I loved you once and you loved me
Something wasn’t meant to be
And like a ship lost out at sea
We drifted but were never free

Dreaming Only Leads To Sorrow (c) Sweidel/Stewart

My daughter and I collaborated on this one!

Cinderella
(c) Kelsi Cummings and Deanna Sweidel

Rode in on your white horse
Like a knight upon his steed
Swept me off my feet
Gave me everything I need
Made me feel so special
Like a princess for the night

Am I your Cinderella 
Is this a fairy tale
Do I get a glass slipper
Or a pumpkin carriage to
Carry me away
Is this my happily ever after
When it comes to me and you
Can this be love, a love forever true

Little did I know
Things were ‘bout to fall apart
Left me standing there
With nothing but a broken heart
And now I’m all alone
As the clock (it) strikes midnight

Guess I ain’t your Cinderella
This ain’t no fairy tale
I don’t have a glass slipper
Or a pumpkin carriage to 
Carry me away
There is no happily ever after
I know I’m not the one for you
We had our fun, but
Baby now we’re through

You’re no prince charming
In this tale’s romance
This storybook ending
Never stood a chance

Oh…
I ain’t your Cinderella
This ain’t no fairy tale
I don’t have a glass slipper
Or a pumpkin carriage to 
Carry me away
There is no happily ever after
I know I’m not the one for you
We had our fun, but
Baby now we’re through

Cinderella (c) 2020 Sweidel/Cummings

FAWM 2021 - prompt was only use 14 unique words. I wrote the lyrics and Alex came up with this brilliant bluesy music and vocals.

Please Stay (c) 2021 Sweidel/Klages

I love you
Please don’t
Please don’t go
You are 
You are all I know

Please stay
Please stay 
Please stay with me
Please stay
Please stay 
Please stay with me

I love you
Please love
Please love me
I am 
I am all you need

Please stay
Please stay 
Please stay with me
Please stay
Please stay 
Please stay with me

Deanna Sweidel

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