chorus
hit the lights

verse 1
Life is a stage 
Some of us fall off 
again and again and again
Act your age
Trying not to grow up
Again and again and again 

pre Ch
The Curtain goes up and I run a mile 
Far away far out of sight 
Forgetting my lines I freeze every time 
Until I hear them say
CH-Hit the lights 

V2
Life is a stage 
Some of us shine on 
again and again and again
At your age 
Take every moment 
Again and again and again 

The particles swoon inside the room
Caught in a brilliant white
Bathe in its bloom 
The shows not over 
Til you hear them say 
Hit the lights

the shows not over

hit the lights 27 SAW 20

"With A Sigh" (#374, 200717)

Not every story can sound like a fairy tale
Sometimes the lovers don't love in the end
Not every promise lasts but I believe anyway
Somehow someday that I'll see you again

We couldn't have guessed
But nevertheless
I sing to the wind
As the raindrops roll off my skin

With a sigh and a kiss as the train leaves the station
I know I'm gonna' miss you it's hard to be patient
While the hands on the clock and the seasons are changin'
But me and my kiss we will be right here waitin' with a sigh

Maybe it's early a little too soon to tell
Or maybe I'm late how would I know
Pick me a rose and I'll pick you a daffodil
Before they all freeze under the snow

You brought me to life
Totally opened my eyes
Left hours ago
But I'm never letting you go

Week 29b - With A Sigh (200717)

I took a couple of weeks because I was kinda losing my mind but this is what came out of it, anyways PART II

Lyrics:

I woke up without you by my side,
I tried to fill the echo in my mind.
I couldn't make sense of feeling alright,
so I didn't for a while.

I spent the days on my own
talking to all these people I don't know.
Grasping the fact that maybe I was gone,
but I'm not anymore.

(I need to)
Stop lying to my face,
nobody died from a heartbreak.
You said I'd be ok,
it took me a while but now I understand.
I don't need to love you or hurt you to feel alive,
so now I just feel alright.

I drank a little too much wine last night,
and for the first time you didn't come to my mind.
Couldn't make sense of moving on,
but I did it, just so you know.

Now I don't need to run from your ghost
or from your favorite song of mine on the phone.
I almost forgot the sound of your voice,
and I will after all.

(I'm glad you)
Stopped lying to my face,
nobody died from a heartbreak.
You said I'd be ok,
it took me some scars but now I understand.
I don't need to love you or hurt you to feel alive,
so now I just...

I almost forgot the sound of your voice,
nobody died from letting you go.

You said I'd be ok,
it took all in me but now I understand.
I don't need to love or hurt you to feel alive,
so now I just feel alright.

Feel Alright

Seventy boats down from a Yankee gale
Dead like the dream of the age of sail
For a side wheel steamer in a suit of mail
Seven boats down from a Yankee gale

Left a broken fence around the coast
Of timber and beams and bones and hopes
Pick through the teeth and the hands of the host
Now the graveyard recruits its own

Seventy boats down from a Yankee gale
Sowing calm, and courage pales
In the cold night
Growing time, passing by
It's a life

It's living

But it's beginning
To feel like giving in
And the cold wind
Feels comforting
The winter blanket bed
The fire on again
And wait to be dead
Or go swimming


Image credit: http://vre2.upei.ca/cap/node/216

Yankee Gale - Song a Week 2020, Week 31

"I Can't Believe It's Not" (#382, 200802)

Something about your smile
Darker than the rest
The anger in your eyes
Always hurt the best

Better hold on tight
To the pain I know
Never safe inside
Never could let go

I'd give you everything
To have you back again
One more night together
We could stay forever

Show me some kinda' sign
Before I'm out of time
And the door is finally locked
I can't believe it's not

Nothing could have stopped
What you meant to me
All those aftershocks
Brought me to my knees

I'd give you everything
To have you back again
One more night together
We could stay forever

Show me some kinda' sign
Before I'm out of time
And the door is finally locked
I can't believe it's not

Did I dream it did I fall in fantasy
Did I carve you from the earth
Did I leave behind my sense of sanity
Did I waste until it hurt

Week 32 - I Can’t Believe It’s Not (200802)

Song a Week Challenge

Original Lyrics:
He wondered if it was up to him
Symphonic gongs blasting through the ceiling
A taste of raspberries stained in his memories
There! It begins again! Hit the lights! Hit the lights my friend!

Meteors hurtled from her hands
As if she was bowling across the universe
A song of mango bleeding across asteroid fields
There! It begins again! Hit the lights! Hit the lights my friend!

Who are we but two beings?
Built of carbon and electricity
A touch of melancholy the abyss between pinprick stars
And worlds collide, hit the lights, hit the lights!

Hit The Lights

I got electricity that's shooting out my fingertips 
feel it when I walk into the room
I got sexuality that's bending all of space and time 
Find the world revolves around me too

The elixir of life - the elixir of life
I got the the goddam font of youth with me tonight
The elixir of life - the elixir of life
it's coursing through my veins
I'm set to set the world alight

I been every hole you ever sold your soul to leave behind
I been broken down and left to die
I tried every way to shake the naked devil off your back
Can you see the twinkle in my eye

The elixir of life - the elixir of life
I got the the goddam font of youth in me tonight
The elixir of life - the elixir of life
I feel it's coursing through my veins
I'm setting everything alight

I got on top and
Ain’t gonna stop
Ain’t gonna stop now - no
I crashed out
I’m back now
Bringing something to the light

The elixir of life - the elixir of life
I got the the goddam font of youth in me tonight
The elixir of life - the elixir of life
I feel it's coursing through my veins
I'm set to set the world alight

Elixir Of Life

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020

Guitar & Vocals: Erin Wolf
Lyrics: James Tristan Redding & Erin Wolf
Music: Erin Wolf

*This song uses a wide range of old unused prompts from Song-A-Week founder, James Tristan Redding (@jimtristan). Former prompts featured can be found following the song lyrics with the year the prompt is from. While I had hoped to use them as prompts in their own right, it seemed fitting to put them all together while also using Week 40's theme, "Ifs and Thens". Thank you for the wonderful inspiration, old friend!*

last call, but i'll keep nursing my
whiskey for one
i used to say i like myself better when I'm drunk
but that old me is gone
that old me is gone

i guess my best was pretty bad, hey
what i said is not what i wanted to say
but in the end, i pay for my mistakes
pay for my mistakes

all i ever wanted was to make you proud
but for all i know,
i've failed and let you down
if i could just make you smile
even for a moment
that would be just fine

it's 11:59 and here i am hoping
that you are my tomorrow morning
forget ifs and thens
how or whens
what do ya say

forget ifs and thens
how or whens
what do ya say

(vocalizations)
(because i'm too lazy to type them all out)

**********
old JTR prompts featured in this song (year)
1. make you proud (2018)
2. 11:59 (2018)
3. my best was pretty bad (2018)
4. you are my tomorrow (2017)
5. whiskey for one (2017) 
6. for all i know (2017)
7. pay for my mistakes (2016)
8. not what i wanted to say (2016)
9. i like myself better when i'm drunk (2010)
10. if i could just make you smile (2009)

It's 11:59 Somewhere

This song was inspired by a number of things, but basically it was just me grabbing a newspaper and thinking "hey, I haven't read one of these in a while"
Artwork by me (that's one of the first pictures I took during quarantine!)

Lyrics:

I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for
cause I've stopped reading the newspaper.
The television's loud so I don't turn it on,
it's just a coping mechanism I've been living off.

I have responsibilities, I have them no more
cause I say I kinda like it then don't like it anymore.
Floating on a cloud of ignorance and doubt,
flying too high for anyone to drag me down.

Can't separate my dreams from reality,
I put them all together just to set me free.
My hope's a little bitter like a cup of green tea,
but I would drink it up, it's better than empty.

My records get stuck at the same old song
about falling in love, and then it turns out wrong.
The clock keeps ticking on the wrinkles of my face
telling me to hurry up before it's too late.

I'm cooking up a rage inside of me,
spice it up, season it up, get on your knees
and pray for the future of your sanity
cause I've been praying for mine since I was 16.

I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for.
(cause I've stopped reading the newspaper)
I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for.
(the television's loud so I don't turn it on)
I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for.
(a coping mechanism I've been living off)
I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for.
(Say I kinda like it then don't like it anymore)

I'm not the kind of girl that you're looking for...

newspaper

Copyright Kent Aitken & Erin Wolf 2020; Paris, France & Little Chute, WI, USA

*Co-write with Kent Aitken https://soundcloud.com/kent-aitken-386794022

After five years waiting, we're finally exhaling
Open doors to see what's outside
While I am ever the optimist, I have to admit
It felt like these were darker times

Tears flowing freely, crying on each other's shoulders
Holding on for help and hope
You never notice just how much you're holding
Until you get a moment of release

Overcome with waves of relief

Hear the bells ringing
Over people singing
Calling out with songs of cheer

Breathe with me again
Come together then
Let our hope conquer fear

It's going to be a long haul
There's work ahead for us all
Tomorrow just won't build itself

But for the moment
We just need some space to breathe
A million mile sigh of relief
For us to share

Not the only one who cares

Hear the bells ringing
Over people singing
Calling out with songs of cheer

Breathe with me again
Come together then
Let our hope conquer fear

Hear the bells ringing
Over people singing
Calling out with songs of cheer

Breathe with me again
Come together then
Let our hope conquer fear

Five Years Waiting (with Kent Aitken)

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Nashville songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Godin Guitars Official Artist and Founder of www.songaweek.org.

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