Video version here: https://youtu.be/2BHEuwewqwo

Hover Car Blues

Hover Car Blues (2026 Tiny Desk edition)

Lyrics 

Chasing after this holy moment 
I need direction to keep on going
Now I’m falling I hear you calling
Trust fall yeah you know I’m all in 


You never lack you never fail
You never have you never will
I lift my eyes up to you Lord 
I lift my eyes up to you Lord

I lift my eyes up to you Lord 


I will rise up

I Will Rise

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021

Week 1 Prompt - Top of the List
Instruments featured: Acoustic guitar, mandolin

watching the snow fall to the ground
the silence it brings always abounds
feeling lonely amid all this cold
remembering the summer nights i felt bold

still i'm waiting for you to call
i've been holding hope since the fall
hope is for the birds or so they say
i don't care - for you i'd wait all day

i want to love you like Pablo Neruda would
loving you wholly without even knowing i could
just as you are, no mask, no facade
raw, bared, exposed, perfectly flawed

and i'll put your name at the top of the list
somewhere it can't be missed
but i could never forget your face
where we first met in our secret place

i want to love you like Pablo Neruda would
loving you wholly without knowing i could
just as you are, no mask, no facade
raw, bared, exposed, perfectly flawed

watching the snow fall to the ground
the silence it brings always abounds

Pablo Neruda

A Capella cover of "Stand in that River" by Moira Smiley
Performed by Jordie K.

*daughter-mama duet cover coming soon*

Come and stand in that river
Current gentle and slow 
Send your troubles down water
Down on that water flow

When you stand in that river
Angels sing in your head
Secrets beyond any worry
Dreams beyond any dread

Tell me sister, brother,
Where does that river flow?
It flows down to that great water
Where soon my people will go

Come and stand in that river
Current gentle and slow 
Send your troubles down water
Down on that water flow

Stand In That River (a capella cover by Jordie K)

First recording in 18 months. Hoping that Song-a-week 2021 will get me going again.

Music and image Copyright © Claes Akerblom

Solitude(demo)

Mercy Mile (#429, 210109)

 * Photo credit maciel_aaron * 
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I can't take it back
I can't change the facts
I can't make the past be something else

I can't get too close
I can't let you go
I can't dream of loving someone else

One more touch one more embrace
Please don't leave me now
There must be some saving grace
To rise about the doubt

Go the distance take my hand
Lead me like a child
One last night baby one more stand
Just one more mercy mile

I can't be so cold
I can't see the road
I can't draw the blinds or shut the door

I can't seem to say
I can't walk away
I can't live without you anymore

It's too late it's not too late
All I need is you to stay

Week 02 - Mercy Mile (210109)

the weeks theme is optional, whatever seems most impossible, whatever pass as irrational
thats the theme this week

weak theme is optional, trash  clash at the capitol, police greased by politicals
thats our c-u-n-try

the weak's theme is optional, assemble their own obstacles, social synapse collapsable
thats the regime of the week

weak theme is optional, casual irresponsible, spectacle reprehensible, thats the theme this week

theme of the week.....
greed  fear violence shame.....

the weak's theme is optional, refuse as a collectible, overcooked like a vegetable
return without a receipt

the weeks theme is optional, money makes the oath most corruptable, corruption unconscionable
thats the theme of the weak
its the theme of the week

theme of the week is optional

"Cold Morning Coffee" (#430, 210116)

Cold morning coffee color of soil
About as thick as motor oil
Like molasses a couple of drops
Made a halo on the countertop

Cold morning coffee forgot it was there
Stained the paper on the rocking chair
Mug is sittin’ on the kitchen floor
Left over from the night before

Cold morning coffee sharp as a knife
Unforgiving like weighted dice
Some kinda’ frozen oblivion
Heart made of obsidian

Cold morning coffee heavy roast
Somewhere south of Mexico
Bitter as winter as dry as dust
Almost dead like the two of us

Week 03 - Cold Morning Coffee (210116)

Hey Lady - please come over here
for this to work you need to be quite near, to me
Oh Lady - your actions soon will show
that you have powers you didn't know, could affect me (so)

You smile - and it warms me up inside
like hot chocolate on a cold winter's night
But when you kiss me - without warning
that's like coffee on a cold December morning
Needless to say - it gets me going

Like a spark in the dark, an electric charge
connecting me to you
Why it happens again, and again science can't explain
but I swear - it's the Gospel truth
it's because I love you

Hey Lady - now that you have seen
what you do to me means, to me
Oh Lady - I know that you can tell
that this experiment went quite well, so let's prove it again

Song and image Copyright © Claes Akerblom

Cold Morning Coffee (demo)

A Cup Of Cold Coffee

The first tale of Snow and Cherry

Help yourself

i know it's hard to feel lonely
when nothing seems like it's alright
no need to keep on pretending
not this time

i know you know it's a journey
but we don't always know how far
don't let the world break your heart to pieces
not this time

no one can help you if you don't help yourself
every man can change his mind, it's alright

you know i love you to tears
that it's ok for men to cry
i know nobody has ever taught us
until now

Tales of Snow and Cherry

Help Yourself

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 02 - Mercy Mile (210109)

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