This is a song I was commissioned through my LifeSong project to co-write with my dear friend Kelli Teichman in tribute to her mother. To learn more about the The Life Song Project visit www.thelifesongproject.com

Hiking Boot Woman

Dragonfly (Mary's Song)

Second Chances
by Havilah Rand
copywrite 2021

There's no second chances
when you're running out of time
stumbling through every open door

feeling uninvited
was there something I said wrong
I can't show my feelings
so I write songs

you don't have to make everything all right
but lets not start if it's just for tonight
we all want to be chosen
we all want to be the one
but when you settle for something less
all your left with is somebody else's mess

when all you've got is anger
fire in your blood
treading the deep water  
just to get sucked down into the mud

reaching for the bright lights 
when the sky is raining down
was I imagining that rainbow
was I imagining the sound

of your voice saying it's gonna be alright
love is gonna stay for more than just one night
you are chosen
you are the one
we never settled for something less
And now we're left with each other's beautiful mess

Second Chances

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

Catherine 
by Havilah Rand
copywrite 2021

You were  a brown girl
from Oklahoma
he was a cowboy
when she wandered by and he took one look gave her a smile
the grey sky opened up
all her life waiting for this touch

there was a whirlwind there was a storm
before her feet could touch the ground
he didn't say goodbye when he slammed that door
the grey sky opened up
two small boys waiting for her touch

they called you that wild woman
with daggers in your eyes
runnin from a demon 
but the worst ones live inside
and if I could sit with you right now
smoke a cigarette and ask you how 
you made it through


nine year old boy he could barely reach the pedal 
searching for his mother up the gravel roads of yellowstone 
the way your heart must have ached 
the way your neighbors looked at you in shame
but I'm glad to share your blood just the same
and this embrace

Catherine

A reflection on my hike on the Mont Blanc Trail..

Mountains

ALL I WANT FOR XMAS

Warehouse Empire

This is an original, I own the rights

Birds were singing in the trees
On the first day that you met me
And the sun was shining bright in the sky

But some day the sun’s gonna burn everything to ash
Or maybe we’ll all succumb to nuclear blasts

So until then let’s just spend our time
With smiles on our faces and love in our eyes
Enjoying every single cool breeze

Because nuclear winter’s gonna make us all freeze
If by then we haven’t all been killed off by disease

Life is so lovely lovely lovely
But life is so deadly deadly deadly
And love is for the living living living
So just keep on clinging cling clinging

Double-Edge

This is a reflection on my recent trip to Madeira, Portugal to hike along the Levadas. Now in it's third draft.

Levada

I wrote this from the life story of an elderly man named Harry who I visited with in Bellingham, WA last summer. 

Appalachia (Harry's Song)

I'm kind of stepping it up here in the new year with some new sound experiments.  Though my current day job is taking pictures of guitars, I'm definitely working on using them for what they are intended as well.

Levada

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