Drop-A-Love
Music and Words by Mark Magram

(Chorus)
Ooh you can Drop-A-Love
Like a
Bad habit you can Drop-A-Love cause
You. Don't. Want. To. Let. Nobody in.

You can drop the bomb
Like a
B52 you dropping bombs cause
You. Dont. Want. No. One. To. Hang. Around.

(Verse1)
I kept on wondering when it was gonna end
I heard the stories all about those other men
I started losing track of all the names you said
My name would soon be next, I couldn't get it out of my head

I must have been blinded by my heart again
Why can I never see the forest for the trees
You couldn't have been any more clear

(Chorus)

(Verse2)
You said I motivated you to want to try
More than you've ever felt with any other guy
I don't know how to tell how much of that is true
My heart heard only that I wasn't good enough for you

Im left here standing on the sidewalk
The truth laid out in front of me hiding in plain sight
The voices in my head were right

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Maybe you're afraid to commit
Cause I don't think you ever got used to it
Maybe you set your standards high
So you don't ever have to let your fears arise
Cause if it isn't perfect you keep giving up
And when is good enough just ever good enough?

(Chorus)
(Chorus)

Drop-a-love

Sea Song
Words and Lead Vocal by Havilah Rand
Music and Harmony Vocals by Mark Magram

Building a boat made of dreams

out of hope and a prayer

the sails are tattered and frayed

drifting away

CHORUS

this crew of one

windward toward the setting sun

look to the horizon

leave the ghost behind

and say goodbye forever back to the sea finally be free

turn your eyes to the sky

as the night

sets it all on fire



waves of emotion

roll in with the tide

the moon shadows to a flickering ember

lighting the way



CHORUS

Bridge

and the heart learns to let the fear go

back to the stillness of peace of forgiveness

Sea Song

A beautiful collaboration with my very talented friend Mark Magram. Fourth submission to Soulwriter University Fall 2021 Songwriting Group.

Sea Song 
by Havilah Rand and Mark Magram
copywrite 2021 

Building a boat made of dreams
out of hope and a prayer
the sails are tattered and frayed
drifting away 

this crew of one
windward toward the setting sun
look to the horizon
leave the ghost behind
and say goodbye forever  back to the sea finally be free  

turn your eyes to the sky
as the night 
sets it all on fire

waves of emotion 
roll in with the tide
the moon shadows to a flickering ember
lighting the way


CHORUS


Bridge
and the heart learns to let the fear go
back to the stillness of peace of forgiveness

Sea song by Havilah Rand and Mark Magram

You & I

Clueless
Clueless won
Clueless wonder
Clueless wonderful
How can you even ask “What’s up?”
When you can’t even tell what’s going down?
You’re so eager not to know
It’s like you’re happy that we’re angry
At the catcall lies
(agnostic praying mantis)
About your plagiarizing enterprise
(sinking like Atlantis)
Ringing hollow like your empty eyes
(wow ain’t that a pity)
And your Cracker Jacks
Ain’t got no prize
(rip off city)
You look like somebody licked
All the red off your candy
A sad mixture of happiness and trust defiled 
Peeled like a potato and chop chop chopped down
Thrown on the fires of disaffection

Clueless Wonderful

SoulWriters University Fall 2018, week 2: "Unconditional"

Erase history from the beginning.
We quit cause we don't feel like winning.
Got nothing to say before we go.
This surrender's unconditional.

Perfection comes in unexpexted ways
when you empty out your days.

The diary's been busted open.
Our hearts have been totally broken.
That's how we can pour all the love out - 
we got nothing and nothing to cry about.

Perfection comes in like a prayer.
It fills you up when nothing's there.

I used to keep lists of my losses
so I could recover my crosses
with everything I couldn't let go - 
I give it away.

Daily Report

I give it away

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO LOVE
YOU MAKE ME WANT TO LOVE

WHEN LIFE HAS NO MEANING
AND THE WORLD SEEMS
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
A WORD FROM YOU 
CAN BRING ME 
BACK AROUND

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO LOVE
YOU MAKE ME WANT TO LOVE

MY FINGERS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS
OUR HANDS BETWEEN A PUSH AND PULL
THE ONLY WORD THAT LINGERS:
UNCONDITIONAL

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO LOVE

Verse1:
over and over
and over
I feel down
over and over
and over
I feel no one is around

Chorus:
in the city
its so bright
but lonely
oh in this city yea
I don’t know where
I belong
but the streets of
music that plays
over and over
all night long
I still feel so empty
in this city 
I need to 
find a home

Verse2:
over and over
and over
I fall down
over and over
and over
I keep hitting
the ground

Chorus:
in the city
its so bright
but lonely
oh in this city yea
I don’t know where
I belong
but the streets of
music that plays
over and over
all night long
I still feel so empty
in this city 
I need to 
find a home

Bridge:
mmm mmm
I need to run
before the city
is gonna suck
me in and
PULL THE TRIGGER

Chorus:
in the city
its so bright
but lonely
oh in this city yea
I don’t know where
I belong
but the streets of
music that plays
over and over
all night long
I still feel so empty
in this city 
I need to 
find a home

In The City

SWU week #6: "pull the trigger" 

My life had stood in corners like a loaded gun -
I've been here waiting but I think that you're the one
to take me out so we can have a little fun
Just pull the trigger and I'll flash bright like the sun

Over the valley you can see me hit the sky
And do I smile, even though I can't really fly
A quiet promise that is hanging on the wall
A bullet fired in the air still has to fall

Every time I speak for you, the mountains straight reply
If you don't believe I can, then look me in the eye and say goodbye.

My life had stood a loaded gun, until the day
I noticed you - I want you to take me away
Out to the woods where I will know just what to say
My voice is dangerous but I will keep you safe

Every time I speak for you, your enemies will die
If you don't believe in me, just look me in the eye
Every time I speak for you, the mountains straight reply
If you don't believe I can, then look me in the eye and say goodbye.
Say goodbye.

Anna Arvan's Album

or say goodbye

I got too good at being alone.
I made an island all of my own.
My currency, my melody,
I'm breaking my economy.

I fear sea levels are rising fast
I keep building taller, I'm trying to last.
My industry, my poetry, 
declaring an emergency.

I'm so tired of climbing higher to look for drier ground,
I always have to move on when I finally want what I have found.
No one's coming for me, I guess that it's time to swim or drown.

I speak a language nobody knows.
I draw the maps where nobody goes.
My broken mugs, my favorite drugs - 
all of the scary things I love, it's never enough.

I can't leave them behind and let them get lost where they were found.
I light a fire and make a signal when I can't make a sound.
Will some friend send out a ship? I don't want to swim away.
Will some friend send out a ship? I know it's not smart to stay.
I always have to move on when I finally want what I have found.
No one's coming for me, I know that it's time to swim or drown.

Swim or Drown

When will we change our ways? I was challenged to write a love song for a horror movie.  I wondered when the monsters in horror movies will finally stop killing, maiming, torturing, hurting, and find some love. Then it occurred to me that we as humans are a lot like the monsters in horror movies.  We war with each other. We fight with each other. We hurt each other. So I ask, "When will we change our ways?"

The New Denisovians

When Will We?

Havilah is a force of nature who sings with soulful passion reminiscent of Rickie Lee Jones, Eva Cassidy and Joni Mitchell. Her songs are written straight from the heart and capture the listener with an authenticity that is poetic yet undeniably true. Her fourth release "Bengalese Butterflies" is a culmination of seven years worth of heartbreak, world travels, career changes and new beginnings. Havilah  recently re-located to Austin, TX from her home in the Pacific Northwest where she has become a fast fixture among a vibrant community of singer songwriters.

Sea song by Havilah Rand and Mark Magram

Havilah

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