This is musically and lyrically very powerful. Nicely done, Erin.

This is beautiful, I love the chorus! And this line - "sometimes we've gotta face what's staring right at us and oh leave the magic for another day"

Wow what a balance between art and craft. It feels like (and please forgive me "assessing", as I know that's not the point) you have been hitting the songwriting gym SO hard, and then in this one, allowed those muscles to carry you through something deep.

sometimes throwing caution to the wind and just letting it fly is the best way to create! no shame in that.  And if this is you as a "rough" take, it's pretty awesome, keep on doing it!

Very powerful chorus and it sounds like a finished version to me 👏

Incredibly powerful song and performance. There's no mistaking it coming straight from your heart to the listener. You just showed us that something beautiful can come out of loss and pain. Amazing, Erin.

Sorry for your loss, thank you for the heart

Sung with real emotion, a fantastic bit of singer-songwriter magic.

Can u check out my music and gimme feedback this shit is rlly fkn moving 

Remember Love

Copyright Erin Wolf 2022

Week 1 Prompt - Something New

*Note about the song: I was so frustrated trying to write anything for this prompt that I just started recording and playing. Rougher recording, but it's true to the rawness of the last few weeks.*

it's a new year and i know
i'm supposed to feel something different
truth be told i just
feel the same
the weight of the loss of the
last few weeks is heavy tonight
tears coming down like rain
but it's snowing outside

somewhere someone said at the 
stroke of midnight it would change
but i've found that really 
just isn't true
sometimes we've gotta face what's
staring right at us and oh
leave the magic for another day

but go ahead, new year,
show me something new
help me see the magic 
in the tragedy
help me remember the love & 
the gratitude in the grieving
go ahead, new year, dazzle me
show me something new
something new

i know that i'm lucky to have
loved those i lost
i know that i'm lucky and blessed
in so many other ways
truth be told this stings
in a whole new way
just a moment of reprieve
along the way

so go ahead, new year, 
show me something new
go ahead and show me the 
magic in the tragedy
show me the love and gratitude
in the loss
go ahead, new year, dazzle me
show me something new 
something new

Show Me Something New

Time to lay years down to rest
Parting like a passerby
Walk past everyone to find
Fire, water, wood, and wine

Leave it all as lonely ash
This is what promise becomes
So burn and wash the left behind
With fire, water, wood, and wine

And all along
There’s curling smoke in place of song
On the ceiling of the living room
Suppose I should be leaving

Here among the falling
Everything and anything
Only saved if kept in mind
But fire, water, wood, and wine

And all along
The coast that I grow up on
The way that water keeps its cool
Suppose I should be leaving soon

And all along
There’s nothing wrong, there’s nothing wrong
In the way the snow swallows the sound
Suppose I should be leaving now

Leave it all as lonely ash
This is what promise becomes
So burn and wash the left behind
With fire, water, wood, and wine

Twenty Two - Song a Week 2022, Week 2

WEEK TWO 16/01

PROMPT: TWENTY TWO 
KEY:F

1.MEET YOU AT THE STATION
PLATFORM NUMBER 22
I'LL BE WEARING FADED JEANS
MY PALE PINK JACKET, WHITE SHOES
LEAVING EVERYTHING I 'VE ALWAYS KNOWN 
TO RUN AWAY WITH YOU
MEET ME HERE ON PLATFORM  22

WHERE THE WORLD MEETS TOGETHER
THE POOR AND THE FAIRER
THE RICH AND THE AGED
THE WEAK AND THE WEATHERED

WHERE THE STENCH OF THE DIESEL
KISS THE HISS AND THE HEAT
THE ONCE- IN- A -LIFETIMES CARVED
IN THE OLD TIMBER SEATS

2.MEET YOU AT THE STATION
PLATFORM NUMBER 22
I’LL BE WAITING FOR YOUR HAND TO HOLD
ONE HEARTBEAT MADE BY TWO
WE WILL SET OUR SIGHTS ON DAYS TO COME
WRITE THOSE SONGS SUNG BLUE
MEET ME HERE ON PLATFORM 22


3.MEET YOU AT THE STATION
PLATFORM NUMBER 22
BRING YOUR OLD GUITAR
THAT STRAP YOU FOUND AT THOSE MARKETS NEAR THE ZOO
WE'LL REWRITE THE TUNES OF ANCIENT DAYS 
AND WE’LL  MAKE THEM SOUND BRAND NEW
MEET ME HERE ON PLATFORM 22

Twenty Two

Life is crazy? Feels like the world is ending? Can't handle anymore?
Chill out my friend and do the Matcha Latte Cha Cha. 
Life gets better when you're in it. 

*****

Matcha Latte Cha Cha

El trabajo nunca se acaba
siempre mil pendientes hay para mañana
en la guerra de lo importante y lo urgente
se nos olvida vivir el presente

Al mal tiempo con buena cara
es mejor que actuar como si no pasara
con cada error algo nuevo aprendemos
otra manera de cómo no hacerlo

Un paso para atrás
no es volver a empezar
dos pasos para atrás no es fracaso
más bien un cha cha chá

Do the Matcha Latte Cha Cha
la vida para contarla hay que vivirla
Matcha Latte Cha Cha
mi vida es mejor si tú estás

El pasado ya no regresa
el futuro guarda más de una sorpresa
no hay más que lo que tenemos en frente
en el presente vivir plenamente

Un paso para atrás
no es volver a empezar
dos pasos para atrás no es fracaso
mas bien un cha cha chá

Do the Matcha Latte Cha Cha
la vida para contarla hay que vivirla
Matcha Latte Cha Cha
mi vida es mejor si tú estás

Matcha Latte Cha Cha

Copyright Erin Wolf 2022
Week 3 Prompt - Standing In the Doorway

Note about the song: First song written with covid. Bit of a ramble on this, hit record and just ran with it. It was a challenge to try to focus on something a bit more structured. I'm honestly just glad to have been able to get this out. Be well, friends. 

mmm, mmm, mmm

the fog is closing in on my mind
the virus spreading through
having one hell of a time
my joints are aching and
my body's feeling low
but i know i gotta keep my 
head held high for
those else in tow

mmm, mmm, mmm

i see my daughter as she
doesn't say a word
just keeps her focus high
and she sings like a bird
i know i gotta meet that 
perch up in the air
and i know i give my blessings
for every 'nother new day here

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

i know that this will turn out
the way it's meant to be
but let me tell ya something honestly
i'm surprised that i'm not 
feeling lower than hell
i'm glad for everything 
i been through 
leading up to this spell

mmm, mmm, mmm

so i'll let the fog have a minute
then i'll come back, too
and i'll just pray that
i find another day with you
and maybe at the end of it all
there'll be a knock and I'll see you
standing in the doorway
just welcoming me through

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

'til then i'll just sit here
in this small room
and thank my lucky stars that 
i'm probably not facing my doom
i'll just sit here patiently
and keep on keeping on
and i hope that i'll have 
another day to write another song

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

Another Day of Covid Haze

Push me through the hard times
(and the children in the sandbox went NANA-NA)

Laura

LYRICS:

We could be human
We could be human if we tried
But where have you been
With all the hate I keep inside

I have no answer
You have no fear
You ate my cancer
I am not here
I am not here /I am not here

Everything is haunted 
By the shadow in my head
Everything I say
You can’t believe

You tell me what you wanted
When I waited in your bed
Every other day
I try to leave

We could be human
We could be human if we tried
Who will you hate when
You have seen everything I hide

You could be angry
Then bite my tongue
This heart will hang me
Before we’re done

Before we’re done/ Can we we’re done
Repeat (ad nauseam)

Now and then I recognize
When I don’t give a damn
Pain will find a way
To make me learn

How can I apologize 
For everything I am
Did you only stay 
To watch me burn

I am inhuman
I could be sorry that I lied
Oh where have you been
I have been waiting in the tide

I held you tightly
You held me fast
It burned too brightly
We never last

Everything is better
When you’re running out of time
even pain is pleasure 
at the end

Keep it like a letter
That you know I’ll never find
Tell me that you treasure
every sin

Now where have you been
You should have seen it when I lied
We could be human
We could be human if we tried

Be Human (acoustic)

57 Ways To Lay Your Lover

Trouble Brewing

Out in the desert... Burning man ghost... Lit up in style, starting to glow


Motown Sugar Man

Out of the lights behind closed doors, he’s not the man he used to be.
He doesn’t see it anymore, he’s sure not going to dare agree.
He tells himself it’s only temporarily.

She’s not connecting with her   friends. “They all refuse to change with the times.”
Who knows where her story ends? If you ask her, she’ll be just fine.
She sees it all from a different point of  view.
Sure, I’ve   grown up, that’s what I’m supposed to do.

Maybe changing who we are is not part of the plan. 
Shape a little, bend a little, but never leave a crease.
You only get one chance to shape this world.
Maybe you can start and end with peace.

He makes believe he never was.He’d be embarrassed if they knew.
No sense in telling them because,That was then, this is now, he grew.
It’s just not right, you know, to do just what you please.
I’ve had to settle down, I’ve responsibilities.
But have you changed inside, or just what they all see?

Maybe changing who we are is not part of the plan. 
Shape a little, bend a little, but never leave a crease.
You only get one chance to shape this world.
Maybe you can start and end with peace.

Only One Chance

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