I've been playing along, exploring the Lydian mode on my keys. Yes, I can see it.

Lots of dreamy songs on this week's list! But this one might be the most otherworldly.

Song a week 2025 #7 -

Prompt- Lydian Mode 
(Not sure if I succeeded in that) 

Once again, I'm writing about the liminal state at the edge of sleeping and waking

And I Dream

A love story
(Mark Irving Anderson)
 
When you show me that you love me
A hundred times a day
With your smile, a gesture, or that look
If we’re breaking down the truth here
What’s a man to say
When you can read my heart just like a book
 
In chapter one, you gave your heart
To me, and I gave mine
To you, for all the world to see
As we’re flipping through the pages
I can’t seem to find
A single page where we don’t believe
 
[Chorus]
In a love story, oh, it’s our story
Where miracles and magic come to life
Almost everywhere it seems
In a love story, this is our story
We’re like bookends, our secrets in the night 
Are the pages in between…
 
I don’t want to spoil the ending
But if you read between the lines
Everything, it waits for you and me  
Hand in hand together, like
Climbing roses on the vine
And a climbing rose was always meant to be
 
[Chorus]
In a love story, oh, it’s our story
Where miracles and magic come to life
Almost everywhere it seems
In a love story, this is our story
We’re like bookends, our secrets in the night 
Are the pages in between…
 
[Bridge]
Struggles through the years
We’ll talk about 
After all the salty tears
We’ll work them out…

[Chorus]
In a love story, oh, it’s our story
Where miracles and magic come to life
Almost everywhere it seems
In a love story, this is our story
We’re like bookends, our secrets in the night 
Are the pages in between…
 
Like bookends, our secrets in the night
Are the pages in between…

A love story

You’d know why I’m in love
(Mark Irving Anderson)
 
If you could see what I’ve seen
In the eyes of your lover
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could just catch a glimpse
I’m telling you, brother
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could hear what I’ve heard
In her words at night
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could find what I’ve found
In that sweet morning light
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
[Chorus]
You can’t keep a fool’s heart from fallin’
Falling is just what it does
If you’ve felt your own heart free fallin’
Then you’d know why I’m in love…
 
If you could go where I’ve gone
In the arms of a lady
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could dance like we danced
All night long, maybe
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[Chorus]
You can’t keep a fool’s heart from fallin’
Falling is just what it does
If you’ve felt your own heart free fallin’
Then you’d know why I’m in love…
 
If you could see what I’ve seen
In the eyes of your lover
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could just catch a glimpse
I’m telling you, brother
Then you’d know why I’m in love
 
If you could just catch a glimpse
I’m telling you, brother
Then you’d know why I’m in love
Why I’m in love…

You’d know why I’m in love

“Put Me On An Aeroplane” 

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025 
Song A Week - Week 12 
Alternative Tuning - E G# B F# B D# (thanks to my homie, Seth Williams, for sharing)

Photo credit: Erin Wolf - rainy early morning flight about to take off from New York City

Recorded in the rectory next to Ascension Episcopal Church in Hayward, WI

—

put me on an aeroplane or some distant subway train
maybe a city bus or pounding the pavement on my own
got to get away, trying to hide away
your ghost still lingers like a shadow at my door

eh eh eh, ayyy, yeah (x2)

try my luck in the countryside, a swamp or cove inside
should i try a mountaintop or just the cave on the side
you took me to hell, and i never want to return
i’ll fly to the moon if it means i’ll be free from you

eh eh eh, ayyy, yeah (x2)

how long will it be until i can finally breathe again
just wanted to let you go and leave well enough alone 
do you get the message, can you read the signs
oh, it’s time to leave now, time to say goodbye…


Put Me On An Aeroplane

The Ace-Joe Henrich

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Song A Week - Week 14
Photo Credit: Erin Wolf - March 2025, photo of a mirror with the text, "Everything will be taken away" - The Met Cloisters Gothic Chapel Gallery, Manhattan (NYC), NY - (Edit: Text removed for distribution purposes)

Song notes: This song was primarily inspired by the famous parable, "The Prodigal Son", as found in Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32. I'd also like to thank and acknowledge Rev. Kellan Day of St. James Episcopal in Greenville, SC, for being part of the inspiration behind this song with her sermon/spoken word, "Two Sons", a commentary on the parable: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermon/two-sons-lent-4-c-march-30-2025/

A few folks have observed recently that despite being a Christian who works in ministry by way of the Episcopal Church, I don't consider myself a "Christian artist" as a part of the Contemporary Christian genre. This is an intentional choice on my part, as I aim to write more universal and (hopefully) relatable songs that reach and stretch beyond solely my own faith and traditions via the more generic "Singer-Songwriter" genre. That said, I do occasionally write songs that reflect my personal faith and the stories I was raised with. This is one of them.

--

looking out on all you've ever known
the world before you now
you feel there's more than this 
ol' broken town
time has come for this to die 
and leave it behind

you think you know
got it all figured out
the pride you can't conceal
yet you still don't --
can't comprehend 
what is yet to be
revealed

looking out on all you've ever known
the world before you now
you've worked so hard
now feel so broken down
with the lost that's found
the dead come back to life

you think you know
got it all figured out
the hurt you can't conceal
yet you still don't --
can't comprehend 
what is yet to be
revealed

opulent abandon
stinginess of heart
ego and pride to bind
they wither away
in the face of grace
love that never dies

we'll never know if they ever
got it figured out
and who would take the blame
the mirror's on us anyway
can we see what has been
revealed

Prodigal

Keep on going the road is long, we've gotta keep on going the road is long.
We gotta go, cause it's a long long road to freedom - walk on, cause it's a long long road to freedom.

long road to freedom

All you have is really all you need
For you to make a start
For you to plant a seed
And you can raise it up
And you can watch it grow
And you'll be making love
And reaping what you sow

I'm gonna live a life in rainbows
I'm gonna plant them everywhere
I'm gonna see them in the bubbles
I'm gonna wear them in my hair
I found a never ending journey
That takes me right back to the start
So you can look for me in rainbows
And you can find me in the dark

So now, now’s the time to make a start


make a start

Verse 1:

First thing every morning before the sun rise

I peak out my window at the sleepy skies

I thank the Good Lord for the day ahead

Brush my teeth, comb my hair and make my comfy bed



Head to a job that feels just right

Work hard from morning to night

Do my 8 and head back to my double wide

Walk up the steps and I kiss my lovely bride



Chorus:

Dinner comes and I get a plateful

Mashed potato’s and chicken wings

Life is great and I am grateful

Simple pleasures this life brings



Verse 2:

Years roll on and our hair turns gray

Sit on the front porch at the end of each day

Rockin slow in our favorite chairs

Barefoot and blessed in the evening air



Looking back over a lifetime it seams 

Little luck and a whole lot of dreams

No regrets and a positive attitude

Every day with heart full of gratitude



Chorus:

Dinner comes and I get a plateful

Mashed potato’s and chicken wings

Life is great and I am grateful

Simple pleasures this life brings



Bridge:

Didn't have riches or a mansion view

But we had enough, and we always knew

Greatest treasure this world can give 

Is loving where you are, and the life you live



Chorus:

Dinner comes and I get a plateful

Mashed potato’s and chicken wings

Life is great and I am grateful

Simple pleasures this life brings

Life Is Great And I Am Grateful.wav

I HAVE heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.  I have forgot awhile
Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about the streets
And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,
Because it is alone of all things happy.
I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.

W.B.Yeats

And I Dream

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