This is pretty, it sounds almost like a Radiohead song -- with your smooth vocals over the changing guitar.

Song a week 2024 #16 (Reddit #15) - Prompt = "Eclipse"

A folky version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - The sun wins, and the shadow goes fading away. 

Photo from 2018 solar eclipse - leaf crescents, in Oregon

Your Shadow Goes Fading Away

If it's slow and empty
And there's no adventure 
I will come and get you
If you tell me so
x2

So tell me so I know it
You’ll maybe say that we are
Floating on a river heading for a waterfall
I don't know what we're gonna do
But I can tell you we can
Take a chance
And sing and dance
And play the whole way through

(bass: So,
May…be
Flow or fall
I don’t know but
let’s take the chance)



adventure

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Week 24 - Song A Week 2025
"Like We Did Before"

i am going home
i am going home
thought i knew the way
i wanted to go

i thought i could find
some kinda peace of mind
but i found that i was still
walking alone

now i don't which way to turn
i don't know if i'll freeze or burn
but i know i'll find my way out
somehow

i don't know if i'll sink or swim
i don't know if i'll go out or in
all i know is that i will find my way
somehow

i can feel you near
like you're just around somewhere
just beyond my line of sight
you and i 

i don't know who you are
but i know you're my north star
and i cannot wait to see
the day we meet again

and i don't know how
and i don't know when
but i know i'll see you
again

i don't know how or when
i'll see you again, my friend
we'll figure it out
like we did before

Like We Did Before

Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?

W.B.Yeats

A Friend's Illness

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
"Done with All the Noise"

Song A Week - Week 25
Recorded at Imago Dei Village in Belle Plaine, WI, June 27, 2025
Photo cred: Erin Wolf - country roads in Belle Plaine, WI

i'm trying to find 
someone to love
someone to have
someone to hold

and it's been so long
should i just pack it in
or do i give it 
one last fighting chance

'cuz i can't see
the path before me
don't got nobody
to call home

so i'll just wander
send this highway
in the hope that someday
might catch my lucky break

everyone keeps saying
to just keep waiting
and some day it will happen
when i least expect

how long is long
ain't i been patient
oh these bull stories
that you keep feeding me

i can't tell 
how many times i've been reassured
yet i assure you
i understood every word

oh these empty platitudes
those toxic attitudes
gotta be kidding you
that you're trying to fool me

oh, yeah you're fooling me

and i'm not gonna be patient
might just taste it
all this sour bitterness, all this saltiness
tears i've cried that got no place to run

and i am trying 
to hold you and all your lies
i'm done trying, i'm not running
or searching to find

i think i'll call it a day
might even call it a night
don't you worry, now y'all,
i'm gonna be alright

let's just call it what it is
let's just call the noise
i'm done with all the games
done with all the noise

Done with All the Noise

Verse: 1

I remember laying on the grass

Looking at the clouds

Calling out the different shapes we would see

Riding bikes til after dark

Playing games in the park

It’s all been taken away by technology



Chorus:

Now the iPhone is always on

The thrill of not knowing is gone

It’s hard to think back to a time before the screen

Now it’s “let me Google that”

Or “join this endless chat”

Imaginations lost or so it seems

I want to wonder again will you wonder with me?



Verse 2:

We’d sit out on the front porch swings 

Talk ‘bout life

Argue ‘til the morning over who was right

No answers hiding in our hands

Just big dreams and bigger plans

Questions kept us wondering through the night



Chorus:

Now the iPhone is always on

The thrill of not knowing is gone

It’s hard to think back to a time before the screen

Now it’s “let me Google that”

Or “join this endless chat”

Imaginations lost or so it seems

I want to wonder again will you wonder with me?



Verse 3:

Now I’m scrolling late at night

Blue light blinding

Searching for a spark that used to be

I wonder if the kids today

Will ever put their phones away

Lie in the grass and set their wonder free



Chorus:

Now the iPhone is always on

The thrill of not knowing is gone

It’s hard to think back to a time before the screen

Now it’s “let me Google that”

Or “join this endless chat”

Imaginations lost or so it seems

I want to wonder again will you wonder with me?

Will You Wonder With Me.wav

Lyrics 

Verse1
Take me to Thursday
Back to the first day we met just let me stay

But you’re bound by numbers
You only move in one direction
(only move in one direction)

Chorus
But if I take the Calendar off my wall
Could we forget what year it was 
and find ourselves back there as evening falls?

take the calendar take the calendar take the calendar off my wall 

Verse2
Come with me back through a few Septembers
Take a few stops along the way
Wanna see if you remember it like I remember
Wanna say the words we can no longer say

Bridge
And now I can't go backwards towards you
no I cant
and now I can't go back before we met
and do it all over
no I cant make it

Calendar

Were you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,
You would come hither, and bend your head,
And I would lay my head on your breast;
And you would murmur tender words,
Forgiving me, because you were dead:
Nor would you rise and hasten away,
Though you have the will of wild birds,
But know your hair was bound and wound
About the stars and moon and sun:
O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.

W.B.Yeats

He wishes his Beloved were Dead

Verse 1:

I loved your smile, your stubborn ways

Dancing barefoot in the summer haze

Plans half-made and dreams half-grown

Now I hold ‘em close, they’re my own



Chorus:

I realize your gone

But I don’t understand why

I see you everywhere no matter 

How much I try

You really know how to make a

Grown man cry

Too soon to say goodbye



Verse 2:

I hear your voice in an old familiar song

And the midnight wind still sings along

Your laughter echoes through my mind

Some things we lose, some things we find



Chorus:

I realize your gone

But I don’t understand why

I see you everywhere no matter

How much I try

You really know how to make a

Grown man cry

Too soon to say goodbye



Verse 3:

Your picture’s framed on my bedside stand

I trace your face with a trembling hand

Memories fade but they never die

It’s too soon, too soon to say goodbye



Chorus:

I realize your gone

But I don’t understand why

I see you everywhere no matter

How much I try

You really know how to make a

Grown man cry

Too soon to say goodbye

Too Soon To Say Goodbye.wav

Song a week 27: Gone too soon
Scratch track from my iPhone sounded decent enough

Gone too soon

Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you—but now
We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.

W.B.Yeats

Your Shadow Goes Fading Away

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