Like a ship to the shore
The waves to the waiting wild
Tell me something more
Honey, I’ve been waiting a while

To hear your call
A siren on the sea
Wondering if after all
You were wondering

Carved here out of stone
Built a searching light
You called me on the phone
Said we were ships passed in the night

If it’s what you’re looking for
Darling, I am the shore

I’m not going anywhere

Ship To Shore - Song a Week 2020, Week 48

"Ship To The Shore" (#419, 201122)

Got no gin blanket's gone
Wind so cold water's calm
Prayed for grace don't know how
Threw the compass off the bow

Made up my mind ship to the shore
Ran out of time do that anymore
Throw it all out deadbolt the door
Ain't too proud that's for sure

Anchor's up tide is low
What's my plan hell if I know
Raise that flag load that lead
Burn that oil sun to set

Made up my mind ship to the shore
Ran out of time do that anymore
Throw it all out deadbolt the door
Ain't too proud that's for sure

Cast my face hard and mean
Break the chain nice and clean
Drop this freight light the fuse
No more runnin' nothing to prove

Week 48b - Ship To The Shore (201122)

G                                   C                     D/F#                G
There’s a dry desert breeze in the air here tonght
                  G                C             D/F#
but we’re only half way thru November
                 EM                   C                    D/ZF#             G
AND this year has been so hard and such a long figt
        
                C               D                G
oh lets finish the year well together

        C                                                      EM              D/F
and remember the days that were lonely and long
                      C                                    D
when we stayed in for what seemed forever
               G                    C                       D/F                EM
but we got to hang out here and write and few songs
             C                      D                  G
yeah I think we are all pretty clever



C          G          D/F      G
C         EM           D/F       G
 OH OH NO HOH OIHO


G                    C                      D/F#                    G
As springs singing out with its bloom and its grow
           \G            C           D/F#
The music still reaches wherever
          EM                   C            D/F#           G
From north, east, south, or westward we go 
   C                    D             G
All of these changes, we weather

C                                EM       D/F#
What lies ahead, we haven’t a clue
            C                               D     
    But even for worse or for better
 G                  C         D/F#   EM
I’ll make it through right here next to you
            C                  D            G
Oh let’s make it a time to remember

november niki+ erin SAW2020

on another episode of writing songs about TV shows...
I had the initial idea for this song about three weeks ago. I finally sat down and wrote it two weeks ago. And I finished recording it TODAY. FINALLY.

Lyrics:

You'd be surprised 'bout how heavy is the suitcase I brought
despite leaving behind 10 ton of hurt for a long shot.
A chameleon hiding out for its life, took your hand and you took mine.
We were just doing fine but I can't help to be myself back.

'Till I remember I left my ID back home,
I guess that I don't need it to say goodbye in your car.
Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and I'm afraid I won't breathe it in enough.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.

A baby deer learning how to walk in high heels,
I never knew what's like to start with the easiest thing.
Would you collect all the times I said no cause I was scared,
and light them into fireworks, hold me close and turn them into yes?

Oh mon amour, I left my ID back home,
I guess that I don't need it to say goodbye in your car.
Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and if I look at your eyes, I can breathe it in enough.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.

And just like in the movies you say
I've been here all along.
And I would stay with you here
until my days are gone.

'Till I remember I left my past back home,
and it's faster than me, so though it hurts I have to go.
"Don't you forget about me" you sound like paradise
cause for the first time I wanna say it back.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.
(Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and I look at your eyes to breathe it in enough)

last night in Cartagena

HOPE COMES 
Fiona Morris & Niki Shepherd 2020
VERSE 1
WAIT NOW HOPE COMES
ON THIS NIGHT CHRIST IS BORN
A LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
A NEW DAY DAWNS FOREVERMORE
VERSE 2
HEAVENS HOST REJOICE IN AWE
AS THE KING LEAVES HIS THRONE
ENTERS IN THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR
MERCY FALLS ON OUR EARTHLY HOME

CHORUS
(SINGING)
HALLELUJAH
HALLELUJAH
HALLELUJAH

VERSE 3
LIFT YOUR HEARTS WE WAIT NO MORE  
HE IS HERE THE PROMISED ONE
EMMANUEL FOR ETERNITY
GRACE FOR US IN HIS PERFECT SON 

CHORUS

BRIDGE
JOY OF NATIONS
MIGHTY SAVIOUR
PRECIOUS TREASURE

KING OF HEAVEN
OUR REDEEMER
REIGNS FOREVER

OUR PROVIDER 
GOES BEFORE US
RICH IN MERCY

OUR MESSIAH
CHILD OF PROMISE
PRINCE OF GLORY

VERSE 4
OH WHAT JOY WILL RESOUND
WHEN THAT FINAL CALL GOES OUT
SEE HIM COMING ON THE CLOUDS
LAMB OF GOD IN GLORY NOW

HOPE COMES FI.NIKI - 27:11:20, 12.44 pm

NIKKI DEAN

AMSTERDAM

I used to live like lightning
And I’d rarely touch the ground
As if taking off my boots
Was laying my roots down

Near or far there’s names
On signs that point the way
I may not settle down
But I’m settled all the same

Don’t forget that liars tell truths
When they forget the game
Living light like second hands
Refuse to take the blame

Somewhere there’s a wall
Where I stay in a frame
I may not settle down
But I’m settled all the same

 Every night of lightning
Incoming with the rain
I may not settle down
But I’m settled all the same

Near or far there’s names
On signs that point the way
I may not settle down
But I’m settled all the same

Near Or Far - Song a Week 2020, Week 49

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020

*Week 49 SAW Prompt: Near or Far*

there once was a queen
lovely as she could be
and she loved her king
more than life itself deeply

then one day the king
in a storm took what he
wanted, breaking the queen
then fled in the night cowardly

lock her heart in a cage of steel
so she might not ever feel

the queen dried her tears and rose
as the bitter east wind began to blow
she steadied herself and compose
to carry on despite her woe

suitors came from near or far
all trying to win her heart
but none of them could heal the scar
one by one, they would part

lock her heart in a cage of steel
so she might not ever feel

and she won't fall again
no she won't love again

and she won't fall again
no she won't love again

there once was a queen

The Heartless Queen

This is the song I don't hear in the background
This is the pressure that's building inside
This is my weakness, my  fear of rejection
The tension that keeps me awake in the night

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the shadow I'm casting out blindly
This is the part I don't want you to see
Here is the darkness I smuggle inside me
the part that I've been hiding even from me

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the conflict that's breaking the pattern
This is that chaos that starts to emerge
This is the change that is trying to happen
The call to a greater more beautiful world

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

Can You Hear It

Lyrics:

This feels like the start of something new.
This distraction feels like something you would do.
This heartbeat is deafening in my mind.
This love makes me wanna call you mine.

This room isn't big enough for both of us,
so maybe we can kill the space between us, if there ever was.
This love might set us up for tragedy
but I would rather die for this than for my own reality.

And now you see it's not easy, easy for me
to say "I love you" and mean it, naturally.

This conclusion makes it feel like the end
so if you let me, I'll take it back and try to make amends.
This high keeps on making me feel low,
hoping for the moment you will get me alone. 

And now you see it's not easy, easy for me
to walk past you quiet, quietly.

(This love makes me wanna call you mine)

This love is like walking on a straight line
after a glass of whiskey and a bottle of wine.
This heart keeps on waiting for a sign
before I give up on this madness of calling you mine.

So now you see it's not easy, easy for me.

this

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020
Recorded at All Saints Episcopal Church, Appleton, WI

Week 51 prompt: Favorite one. Be forewarned that it's a one-way ticket to Sapville on this one. #sorrynotsorry

i think you’ve always known
that you’re my favorite one
the way your smile lights up a room
oh, i’m undone

for years i’d been alone
with this pain i’ve known
and then your love made me swoon
made my heartbeat strong

i don’t know
how to show
what i feel
all this fire
heart on the wire
it is real

will you stay
if i say
the truth i know
my favorite one
we’ve only begun
begun to grow

here we are again
just like we've always been
will you sing me some pretty tune
reminding me of when

we had to hide away
take cover from the day
yet somehow despite the gloom
you made it more okay

i don’t know
how to show
what i feel
all this fire
heart on the wire
it is real

will you stay
if i say
the truth i know
my favorite one
we’ve only begun
begun to grow

i think you’ve always known
that you’re my favorite one
the way your smile lights up a room
oh, i’m undone

Favorite One

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

His catalog of 500+ titles includes collaborations with hit writers Mark Narmore, Elliott Park, Steve Dean, and Pete & Pat Luboff, among others internationally from England to Australia.

Redding's music has landed cuts by numerous recording artists including Dan Whitehouse, Emma Gale, and David Easterling.

Week 48b - Ship To The Shore (201122)

James Tristan Redding