Henri Green Gets an Education

An archive of original songs by Henri Green, showcasing her melodic and lyrical capabilities as a songwriter.

This cathartically melodramatic singer/songwriter works within the themes of love, life and mental health to bring her voice and music forward.

Songwriting Portfolio

This was a fun cover of a song from the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy". Excuse the embarrassing monologue.

Bad Little Boy (Adventure Time Cover)

One of two covers of songs from the amazing mini-series "Over the Garden Wall"; created by Patrick McHale. I couldn't not pay tribute to this phenomenal animation experience.

Over The Garden Wall (cover)

As requested by someone on tumblr for further covering purposes

Over The Garden Wall Instrumental

My second Over the Garden Wall cover, of the somewhat more morbid song "Come Wayward Souls" sung by the Beast as he lulls his victims into an eternal slumber. This was a lot of fun.

Come Wayward Souls (cover)

An extended cover of another awesome Over the Garden Wall song, The Highway Man! Lyrics:

I'll knock you out,
Drag you off the road,
Steal your shoes from off your feet,
The Highyway Man,
He's gotta make ends meet.

I could steal your cart,
Your house, face and name,
And dogs may bark
But wives will think I'm the same
But I'm the Highway Man
And I don't play that game.

I'm a simple soul,
With a simple goal:
Live another day.
I could be so much worse,
So heed my next verse,
And don't get in my way

Because I'll knock you out,
And drag you off the road,
Steal your shoes from off your feet,
I'm the Highway Man
And you can bet that I keep things neat.

I'm the Highway Man,
And I make ends meet.

The Highway Man (Over the Garden Wall Cover)

This demo is like a year and a half in the making, not because it was a particularly challenging piece to put down, I just kept swanning in and out of interest in it, but I persevered and I am very glad that I did. Someone very important has requested to hear my music, so I'm making the effort to put together a demo album, for him, how exciting.

Gotham City Tango (Demo)

Before anyone gets excited, no, this is not relevant in anyway, shape or form to the Steven Universe character, Sadie.

This song is nearly three years old, and reigns true within me now, more so than ever. The struggles of anxiety and depression are a frustrating, exhausting and soul-destroying thing to go through, and to me it continuously feels as though there is a separate consciousness living with in myself, making me second guess my thoughts and actions in practically every setting, so I took this feeling, caused by Social Anxiety Disorder (Ess-Ay-Dee) wrote a song about it and called this consciousness Sadie. A smothering, over-protective pain in the neck.

Sadie (Demo)

Often when I take on the task of writing a song it's usually with no other purpose than to further explain the way I feel about something.

And this song is about how much easier it is to be away from somebody you love when you never had them beside you in the first place. The actual falling in love part is only the half of it, it's the keeping up with the ups and downs, the missings and wanting-to-be-as-far-away-as-possible-ings that occur as that relationship goes on. Love is hard as hell, even when it is good.

Love Is Hard (demo)

So the week of Sardonyx is over and the Crewniverse beat me to the punch with Garnet approaching Pearl about her recent actions (previous to the lying to form sardonyx. I couldn't predict that)

I was gonna go all out and make it an awesome wall of sound but seeing as this song is now superfluous, I just did a quick one take demo, seeing as I HAD finished writing it...

Lyrics

Garnet:
Old friend, I know you're hurting
You can't pretend that this is working
I can see it in your eyes, your smiles are masking cries
And your voice breaks when your strength wavers.

I know that you've been trying
To disagree; that would be lying
But the thing that Steven needs is not the same as you or me
Didn't Rose love that earth is full of different flavours?

Ooooh
I can see her in his face too
Ooooh
Maybe we should do like humans do;
And take it a day at a time
We've made it this far; I'm sure we'll be just fine.

Pearl:
Old friend, how do you do it?
How do you pretend there's nothing to it?
I know you're not alone, but out of everyone I've known
You're the only one who lives so freely

Both:
You have seen as much as I have
And we have been to limbo and back

Pearl: 
But Rose, she was my rock, now I've forgotten how to walk
Without her absence in my steps

Ooooh
I can see her in his face
Ooooh
And it makes me feel so out of place
It makes me just want to go home
But Rose is the only home I've ever known

Garnet:
*spoken* I know it's easy for you to say things that you don't really mean when you feel this way. But can you honestly say that if you could bring Rose back, that you would give everything up that you have now?

Pearl:
*spoken* I... I couldn't... I... I wouldn't!

Garnet:
Doesn't that boy have so much about him?

Pearl:
It's hard to believe he's only half gem

Garnet:
But ain't it a shame that that's the thing that makes us doubt him?
When after all, he brought us closer
To them (gems or humans idk it's up to you)
And that's something not even Rose could do

Pearl:
Yes I... I suppose that's true...

*spoken* Garnet... What do I do now?

Garnet:
Just take it easy
And know that we're on your side;
These things take time

Pearl:
Ooooh, you know,
He has never felt her touch,
But ooooh
I have never known one love so much...

Garnet:
And that is because of you.
And me, and Greg,
And Amethyst too
And that's what Steven has the power to do, the power to do

Pearl:
Yes, I know that's true.

These Things Take Time (SU Fan Song)

I had to produce a piece of ambient music for a specific time and setting. My prompt was literally "Bank at Noon". Not sure if it's appropriate to its prompt but, I like it anyway

Bank at Noon

Another prompt from uni; we were dangerously armed with the knowledge of using samplers in Logic, so, influenced by the work of Pogo, I took it upon me take samples from the Steven Universe episode "The Message" (it was the only one I had on file). This isn't complete so there will be a finished version in the future, but for now, have this, it's kinda cool

The Message (WIP) (Sampling Experiment)

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A re-recording of my song Viper. The previous version I did over three years ago, with my college and have lost the original files, so I figured it was about time I redo it

Viper

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You hear the phrase "I'm not a robot" a lot, these days, used for fighting the corner of human imperfection. 

This is a more remorseful take on that statement

Lyrics:

I am 
I am not a robot 
But I 
But I wish I was 
All these 
Troublesome emotions 
Stand in the 
Way of what I want 

I am 
I am not a robot 
But I 
But I wish I was 
Plug me 
In like a computer 
Program 
What it is you want from me 

I have many functions 
I do well in most things 
But without the gumption 
I am trapped inside a shell that's so restricting that it stings 

I am 
I am not a robot 
I'm not 
Fortunate enough 
With my 
Body, mind organic 
I just 
Haven't got the stuff it takes 

To reach my potential 
Like an old ball and chain 
All of these credentials 
Would be so much more appealing in a clean metallic brain 

I am 
I am not a robot X 4

(Not) A Robot

Another track to add to my small arsenal of songs written for Uni. I had to write a comedy song, and I recorded for my teacher and the sound quality was surprisingly good, so I though you guys could have it too, seeing as I've been so so so quiet lately!

Probably won't post anything before Christmas now, so MERRY CHRISTMAS

Lyrics:

ever since i first moved out
some parts of me have changed
when caring for yourself you find
your life gets rearranged

That is just how these things go
Im really not ashamed
But when you’re back at mommy’s house
you’ll generally be blamed

When she thinks its ok
to come and wake me up
by opening my door
and pulling all the covers off

But I sleep naked

before i moved to London
I was living at my dad’s
I found I couldn’t function
With a case of super-sads

Now daddy, bless his heart
He thinks I’m still a little girl
But when he came to wake me, man
I really thought he’d hurl

I have things tucked away
That he’d rather have not seen
But I am not to blame, old man
I don’t mean to be mean

I just sleep naked

Living with a partner yeah
you tend to touch each other and its
easier to do so without clothes
Now, I used to wears pjs
that were taken off me most days
so I wrote this song so everybody knows

It’s a habit

and I sleep naked

now my house has bed bugs
Out of no fault of my own
And talking to the landlords like
Getting blood out of a stone

But he found inspiration
he called for extermination
Entered rooms without permission
for his bed bug killing mission

And he came up the stairs
To my bedroom’s mezzanine
and was really quite confused
When boyfriend started to get mean

There’s no cause, there’s no right
To invade my privacy
So don’t hold me responsible
If you barge in and see

That I sleep naked

I Sleep Naked (rough recording)

I felt a little bad that I don't have anything ready to show you guys from my second year of uni. I will have some proper finalised tracks for you all soon, but in the meantime, I thought I would share this rough, fun little thing I recorded on my phone (which is why the sound quality is not great). The song is performed using a RC50 Looper, all voices are mine.

Lyrics:

Can you hear the call of raindrops,
Raindrops to one another?
Reaching out with liquid tendrils,
Tendrils to one another?
Gliding over window pains,
Wash away those awful stains.
Playing simple raindrop games
With each other.

Raindrop Loop - Rough Phone Recording

SURPRISE. Things were getting a little stale around here.

I wrote this back in 2015, just before starting uni and realised that even though I sing and play this song all the time, I've never once shared it online with my followers, so here you go!

This is Black Roof, in which the ruthless worries that keep you awake at night are personified as troublesome ghosties.

LYRICS:

At night, when the earth has gone still,
There's a house on the top of a hill in mind
With the roof painted black,
The walls and the windows to hide all the dirt and the cracks

And with shelves full of dust
That I once cleaned every morning
No, I cannot adjust
When change is always dawning

At night, when the sky has gone dark
Filling with stars as the moon turns away and the bark
Curls away from the trees
As I plead for mercy, I'm up and then down on my knees

And they walk through the walls
They ascend absent stairways
And they cry in the halls
Keeping sweet dreams at bay

I can't mute the static
I can't breathe in this air
I've been cleaning my attic
But the ghosts don't seem to care

They remain; banging my old pots and pans
Howling and screaming as loud as they can
And again, I can do nothing but weep
'Cos I can't stand the noise and I just want to sleep

Just want to sleep

At night, when the earth has gone still.

Black Roof (Rough Recording)

(I need to keep smashing out demos for a collaborative project I've got coming up, but figured you'd guys would like them so whatevs)

This is a very new song I wrote back in November/December, born of some very raw emotions. One of the amazing things about creating stuff is being able to put your feelings into a little boat you've built out of music/art/whatever, and then just letting them sail away.

LYRICS:

It doesn't seem so long ago
Since you took my heart and threw it away
I had to tell everyone I know
So I didn't have to face those conversations at a later date

But I still felt you on my rope
You were hanging on with nothing to say
I saw you in my telescope
You were small and pained and I took the bait

So why am I still crying over you?
Why am I still crying over you?
I wish I could just sleep it off
That I could just sleep it off
That I could just sleep it off
Like you do, like you do

The echoes of my empty home
Well they're stark and ghostly ringing in my ears
And I can't reach you on the phone
Even when I'm up and howling and I'm drowning in a lake of tears

There's nothing more that I could do
No, I couldn't make you love me if I tried
Not in the way you're supposed to

But here I am, still crying over you
Dumb and shamed and crying over you
I wish I could just sleep it off
That I could just sleep it off
That I could just sleep it off
Like you do

And I know deep down you hold me in your heart
And I will always be your finest work of art
But I linger on the edge of giving in and giving out
Like there's a vulture on the ledge that seems to know what we're about
And yes I know there's only so much pain a single soul can take
But I can't tell if leaving you was a mistake

And so I keep a watchful eye
Yes, I float in waitful orbit of your earth
And sometimes I can't help but cry
For whatever it's worth

I see you in my telescope
I see you in my telescope
I see you in my telescope
I see you in my telescope

Telescope (rough recording)

I'm sorry for all of these rough recordings, I'll have some clean, nice sounding stuff available soon!!

Sometimes I get bad feelings about people. My intuition is usually spot on

LYRICS

You think that your boyfriend's a keeper
The one with the beautiful smile
The fall you fell, it couldn't be steeper
And so fast you didn't notice the bile

But I can sense ulterior motives
I can tell them from a mile away
That boy, you know, his ego is bloated
But I'm guessing that's what's making you sway

(Swoon) Swoon by all means, but ready a helmet
(Assume) The lives that we lead all have concrete floors
And generally, I just lock all my doors

The girl who's a neighbourhood favourite (Watch your back)
She's funny and a little bit shy (She's bound to attack)
But I'd say that she's not to be trusted, oh
And there's a thousand secrets whispering why

(What do they say?) See I can sense ulterior motives
(She'll scare you away) I can smell them from a mile away
Fair-weather, here, she says she's devoted
But knife in hand she wants the lead to your play

I can smell you
I can smell you

Like a body, blocked in the walls
Stink peeling the paint
You think you're covered, you scrubbed on all fours
But I can tell you that you ain't
This nose does not discriminate

And I can smell you
I can smell you
I can smell you
I can smell you

I Can Smell You (rough recording)

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Well boy, she's a viper

Viper (old)

And now look what you've done, old friend, I've fallen in for you.

You Better Run

Sweet darlin',
Close your eyes,
Turn away from the dark blackened skies.

Lullaby

Cover of Laura Marling's "Failure". I own no rights to the song, just this cover :I

Failure (Cover)

A sentimental cover, for sentimental reasons.

Lullaby (NEWTON FAULKNER COVER)

Legs and Lungs

Blunt and merciless singer/songwriter based in London, who rarely says what she thinks, so she just sings it instead. Loudly. And with vigour.

Henri Green

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