My songwriting/producer EP for 2023. Please enjoy and PLAY LOUD! 

This year has been the most creative and inspired year I have ever had. Thank you all for listening, the support, reposts, likes and comments - it has been fantastic connecting with you. 

All the very best for 2024!

HHR

#5 ROARK ep

“Written at a time when there was great uncertainty, I wanted to highlight the very real mental health crisis and the people that support recovery. I wanted a simple message and I think this song both lyrically and musically captures what I was hoping to express”

A song about uncertainty and recovery - “Learning To Feel Again”

Looking at you in this moment
In this moment

My coffee is cold and I've lost my focus
It's been one hell of a year for us

I'm feeling different than yesterday
I know down in my heart it's just a phase and this will change

I’m learning to feel again, I'm learning to feel

"Take off the pressure" 
It’s getting better
She smiled at me in that way that I know she's thinking of me, my best interest
She's the best thing that happened to me

I’m learning to feel again, I'm learning to feel
(I'm feeling different than yesterday)

© Heart House Records 2021

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#Maroon5 #OneRepublic #Coldplay 

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3SSRsZlK7luFRkbi56nnCY?si=KGY_2qoGQfWHvc1GjKlVnQ

Learning To Feel Again (Slow + Reverb Version)

“My aim was to tell a story. I was inspired to write this after watching a movie and hearing the soundtrack. By the end of this song I feel like you can imagine the characters living the rest of their lives happily together…just like in the movies”

A Love Song - “Run After You”

I'm at the station when I see you my breath is taken as I take in the view
My heart is racing
I feel it breaking
My mind is painted with all that you do

I wanna be with you
Breathe you in
And feel you
Take you home
And make my days
My everything
Always

I'm gonna run after you
'Cos we're meant to be
There's a sign on my heart that reads "please don't forget about me"
I don't want to be the lonely one
I know I am not the only one at all
l'm gonna run after you
Please don't forget about me

It's four months later I feel your hate and all the pain that I put you through
It's so tragic, where did the magic go? It never flows like the stories seem to do, but

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1vq0xyrB5F7l5aUu9JbHU2?si=5qUJA23ZTZ6XyHaWqBAsjw

Inspired by:
#EdSheeran | #GaryLeVox

Run After You (2023)

"I have wanted to write a Christmas song for many years and I am so happy that I have finally got one together. Inspired by all of the great things I love about songs for Christmas; it has to be a bit cheesy, lots of fun, emotional, nostalgic and a total ear worm. I have wrapped the chorus around a simple narrative of love and family and friends enjoying a good time. I wanted this to be something you can easily pick up and sing along to with friends. I hope you enjoy this and Merry Christmas!"

A song for Christmas - "It's Christmas Time"

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

December 24th I came knocking on your door
With presents in my hand for you and your family
You greet me with your tinsel eyes and wrap me up in your white smile
You invite me through the door to see your friends and your family

I have never felt like that before
You know it takes me back to when I was a kid at home at Christmas time with my family

Your friends all help me fit right in and I was drinking and grinning my grin 
Yeah, the party was about to begin as we got round the fire to sing

Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Hear the choir sing outside
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Like McCartney have a wonderful time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

© Heart House Records 2022

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

This track was rated a Commended Entry with 5/5 stars as part of the 2022 Official UK Songwriting Contest.

Inspired by:
#PaulMcCartney #EdSheeran

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist: https://open.spotify.com/track/3cwW96jgHHEG5Le8qImSu4?si=2ba01e61b9ad4a48

YouTube: https://youtu.be/i5uWi8hjwPg
YouTube Visualiser:https://youtu.be/Otix7Kr-Yfo

It's Christmas Time 2023

"This song was inspired by the global crisis of 2022. The title came about as I wanted to write a Rock track that would blow the speakers and wake everybody up then lyrically it became a kind of social commentary and a call for world leaders to make positive change meanwhile everybody is doing the very best they can in their situation and living in hope”. 

A song about positive change. To be played LOUD 🤘😎🤘🎸 - “WAKE UP”

I'm a statistic
I'm an addict
In my own mind
I've been sleeping in my car
I've got no fuel, by the roadside

Do you take back what you said to me?
Do you recall what you promised me?

Wake up
Wake Up
We're dreaming while you're sleeping
While you're sleeping 
We've got to keep on our mission
You've got to make a decision
Wake Up
Wake Up
Stop sleeping

It's unforgivable
Whose circumstance is now critical?
Do you stand in the firing line or sit back and watch what's mine be taken away?

My feet on the ground is all that is real
Did you hear about me?

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#JimmyEatWorld #FooFighters

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5psdDEh29AmQF1WndI6epA?si=chgmfgHNQBSS4j5qosKRFA

WAKE UP

“I wanted to write a riff rock song and this track landed. All I had to do from there was follow where the inspiration was guiding me. “All Night” is full of what I love in a rock song - a riff, a groove and a hooky chorus.”

A Rock Song about being hunted and wanting to be found - “All Night”

I'm feeling emotions
I'm seeing your ghost
It keeps me up all night
You're beautiful and you haunt me still and I like it

All night I'm waiting for you
All night I'm waiting for you
You've got me howling at the moon
(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
I don't want to k, keep you waiting
(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
No, I don't want to k, keep

I can feel your heart
Burn it up for me
My eyes are square from the TV
Come stay with me
Yes, come stay with me

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
@blink-182 | @Nickelback | @FooFighters | @TalkingHeads | @Muse

ALL NIGHT (SLOW + REVERB VERSION)

"I have written this song for my wife for Valentines Day 2023"

A love song - "I Know I Will Love You Until The Last Night Of My Life"

I know I'll need you 
until the last night of my life
I know I want you 
until the last night of my life
I am so proud of you 
I say "Hey, this is my wife"
I know I'll love you 
until the last night of my life

If there is only us in a room
I'll take the seat next to you
And if we are laying in rest
I want your hair on my chest
It's never dark in a space
Because you light up the place
I honestly don't know what I would do without you
Would life even make sense?

I know I'll need you 
until the last night of my life 
(I don't want it to end)
I know I want you 
until the last night of my life 
(Let time never break just bend)
I am so proud of you 
I say "Hey, this is my wife" 
(All my love I will send)
I know I'll love you 
until the last night of my life 
(No, I don't want it to end)

I know I'll love you 
until the last night of my life 

No, I don't want it to end

Featuring the Heart House Records family outro.

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

I Know I Will Love You Until The Last Night Of My Life

"I was thinking about Summer anthems and how they always seem to be about going out and having a good time with friends. What about the people who want to stay in over Summer - the introverts? Where is their anthem? Inspired by those great Rock tunes over the years; "Let's Get Rocked", "She Hates Me", “Teenage Dirtbag” and "Beverly Hills" I set out to write an old school guitar Rock anthem that is really fun and quirky. This song is inspired by my favourite record producer Mutt Lange and Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” album. PLAY LOUD. 

An anthem for those stay at home Rockers - "Introverts Summer"

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0

Introverts Summer
I'm having an introverts Summer

I'm listening to my music
I've been watching TV
I'm binging all the movies that I've already seen
I see you in the sunlight drinking your beers
I'm staying on the second floor
The view is better up here

I'm having an introverts Summer
I'm having an introverts Summer

I wanna stay home and play guitar
I'm gonna plug in and play "Hysteria"
I need some time alone to stop and think
Tell them all that I'm out when the phone rings

I'm having an introverts Summer
I'm having an introverts Summer

Introverts Summer
Introverts Summer

I'm having an introverts Summer 
(I'm not going out)
I'm having an introverts Summer
(I'm staying in)

I'm having an introverts Summer
I'm having an introverts Summer

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#DefLeppard #BryanAdams #Nickelback #Weezer #PuddleOfMudd

Introverts Summer

“This Riff Rock track is for Halloween and written from the perspective of a senior paranoid individual who is convinced that the local trick or treaters are a time travelling group from the future called GHOSTS. They are to be feared and are making their annual visit to punish the community. Inspired by Audioslave, Street Sweeper Social Club, Alice Cooper and Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman. I wanted to create a Frankenstein’s monster of 90’s/00’s Rock, drama, anarchy and most of all, FUN; listen out for the pastiche flamenco guitar at the end. Happy Halloween.” 👻💀🎃🤘🎸

PLAY LOUD. Listener beware you are in for a scare😱

There’s a secret society
That comes out on the 31st
They don their masks and their costumes
They’ve got a hunger, a thirst
Now go and tell you and yours
Make sure you close them blinds
Look now here they come don’t let that ghost inside

There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost at the door
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost at the door
So lock your door
Lock your door 
Lock your door
Lock your…

Trick or Treat? 

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

There Is A Ghost At The Door So Lock Your Door (A heart house Halloween Special 🎃👻)

“A song inspired by our daughter. It is about how she is developing in the world and, as parents, the new found capacity to love more than ever before or thought possible.”

A song inspired by our daughter - “I Never Knew How Much I Love You”

I hold you near
Now you’re here 
It’s 4:27am 
Open your eyes and start to cry 
You’ve got 2 new friends

I never knew how much I would fall in love with you
I never knew how you would make me feel the way that you do
I never knew
I never knew
I never knew how much I love you

The days roll by
Your glow shines brighter we’re in this together 
I live and breathe for you
I give my sleep to you
I dream my dream for you
Hold you in my heart forever

You are all heart, you share, you’re kind, you have blonde hair and blue eyes
A beautiful smile, a melting laugh and all the spirit you could ever need

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#RascalFlatts #EdSheeran

ROCKET EP

I Never Knew How Much I Love You

“This song is inspired by late 90’s US Rock/00’s Pop-Punk and 00’s British Indie Pop. It is about anxiety. Musically it is an attempt to showcase the storm and calm that anxiety can create in daily life. Lyrically it is about wanting to reset emotions and be free from worry and self doubt - to be yourself; a self without anxiety. This is a kind of conceptual art record.” 

A song about anxiety - “Be My Somebody”

Let me take, take what I need to take
Let me think what I need to think, meditate it away
Sometimes the world around me feels like I live in hell 
I treat everyone better than I treat myself

I’m chasing freedom while you are chasing me 

Stay away from me anxiety
Get away from me anxiety
Get outta my head
Get outta my body
Take me back to the start so I can be my somebody
Stay away from me anxiety

Getting caught up inside my head
Can you figure it out? 
Taking the torch away from the world
Goodbye reality
Don’t forget that this will pass 
Be your best friend 
Feelings come and feelings go 

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

Inspired by:
#FooFighters #blink-182

BE MY SOMEBODY

“I was unsure about my next song to create and so my wife suggested writing something in the style of The Mamas & The Papas, which I thought was a fantastic idea. A further suggestion by my wife was added; to include the words “Give Love, Get Love”, which was written on my tea bag string (pictured). This was an even better idea and now a fun challenge. With that, this song was written. 

This is a song about giving yourself to life - that we are simply salt floating in the sea; stardust in the universe - to not resist and to embrace every moment. 

I really love the 60’s Woodstock camp fire feel to this song and I enjoyed trying to emulate the sounds/panning of the incredible “California Dreamin’”. I think the electro/synth-pop inspired vocal processing adds a nice modern twist. I hope you enjoy this one”

A song about the universe - “The Salt And The Sea”.

We are the salt and the sea
I drift with you and you carry me
So happy? 
In love? 
Everyone has a story 
Yes, we are the salt and the sea

You’ve got to give love to get love
You’ve got to lose yourself to win it all and be free
This bubble of ours is like living on Mars
We can see the twilight and stars from the sea

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Song structure editing by Queen Van WifeanMamma
Mastered by DOLBY

The Salt And The Sea

“Inspired by Graham Cochrane of Recording Revolution recording a song using only his iPhone; I decided to do the same. This is about social commentary lyrics of yesteryear and how those words are seemingly as relevant today as they were at that time in history.” 

Up all night 
Thinking about Earth in space
Been listening to Tracy Chapman from 1988
Has it ever changed?
The words resonate
Earth feels the same, are we a spinning ball of hate, yeah? 

Will things ever change?
Destined to stay the same?
Smiling through the pain
Is it time for change, yeah? 

I wonder, I wonder what’s going on? 
I’m thinking, I’m thinking it can’t be long
There’s got to be a voice of reasoning 
There’s got to be a change of season and…

© Heart House Records 2024

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

IS IT TIME FOR CHANGE, YEAH?

Inspired.

Contact | hearthouserecords@hotmail.com

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