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Song a Week 2020

Fools - Song A Week 2020, Week 1

Kings And Queens - Song A Week 2020, Week 2

Fever - Song a Week 2020, bonus

Crawl Before You Walk - Song a Week 2020, Week 3

Lyrics by Donna Piano (https://pianolyrics.weebly.com/home/week-3-song-a-week-theme-crawl-before-you-walk or https://soundcloud.com/donna-piano)

Title:  Things My Mama Would Say
Lyrics: DPiano  1/14/2020

Sometimes I think about back in my days
Walking four miles uphill in snow both ways
Religious to pray it comes out of the carpet
Her because I say so taught me about logic

These memories you hear are all mine
Because she told me a thousand times
So just you wait and see
Money doesn’t grow on trees

Sometimes you gotta crawl before you walk
Sometimes you learn to listen before you talk
If only she were still here today
All the things my mama would say

There's no such word as can’t
Stand up straight, be confident
The sun will rise on a new day
Take a breath, find a new way

Sometimes you gotta crawl before you walk
Sometimes you learn to listen before you talk
If only she were still here today
All the things my mama would say

So please do as I say and not as I do
Whether you know it or not, I love you

Sometimes you gotta crawl before you walk
Sometimes you learn to listen before you talk
If only she were still here today
All the things my mama would say

If only she were still here today
All the things my mama would say
All the things my mama would say

Mama Would Say - Song a Week 2020, bonus, lyrics by Donna Piano

Photo: Candle lantern [foto.wuestenigel.com/candle-lantern/] by Marco Verch [www.plaghunter.com/marco-verch/] under Creative Commons 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/].

This is for the Song a Week's week 19 prompt, "Better Off."

This might be the dumbest
Thing I've ever done
The words escaped my lips were gone
But you
Ever the patient one
You'd forgive me
But I wouldn't forgive me
You'd forgive me
That's what you do Annalee

If I tried to break your heart
And you know I never would
I don't think I'd do a job so good
People make mistakes
But I make a lot
Don't be the one
That I make them on
Oh Annalee
You'll be better off

When you called me crying
Drunk inside, and inside dying
For the lantern to be lit
I say
Sometimes I believe it

So Annalee
And this ain't a perfect rule
But I'm not completely
Not still in love with you
Ever the lovely one
Go be lovely
Do it without me
Go be lovely
That's what you do Annalee

Annalee  (You Can Lead a Horse to Water) - Song a Week 2020, Week 19

This one needs a full band treatment for obvious reasons. But ain't go no time for it this week.  Slight accompaniment from my dog Kiwi. Photo by Isaiah Colson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-drums-man-music-141408/ 

I, for the record, like stomp clap music and really liked Hey Ho when it came it. More about moods than global damning. 
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Everyone's got some mallets
And a heartbeat song
Wait for the quiet
It'll take too long

So shut and bar the doors
And put some nothing on
Til it feels just like

Don't want no stomp clap
Don't need no hey ho
Drop your beat drop
If you wanna feel whole

If you want to burn bright
I want to lay low
So drop that stomp clap hey ho hell no

To a slow stop
To every beating heart
And nothing fills your lungs with air

Everyone's got some heavy
And a kettle on
Wait for the whistle
It'll take too long

So shut and bar the doors
And put some something on
Til it feels just like

To a slow stop
Every beat heart
Nothing there
Fills with air

Stomp Clap  - Song a Week 2020, Week 27

© CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46529244

I wrote Ifs and Thens, liked it, started recording it, hated it, so here's some trainbeat instead.

I ain't interested in phone calls
Less I can barely hear you over the screaming of a train
I just want you here beside me
Walking home from that station again

I don’t want you sending photos
Your smiling face in a place where you are not with me
Take a picture of your ticket home
The only thing I want to see

It gets more than I can take, and my lonely heart may break   
When it starts to feel so long you've been away
So if you feel like I've been stalling it's been too long since I've been calling
I'm probably on the road and on my way

Phone Calls - Song a Week 2020, Week 40

First three lines are Robert Frost's. 

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Some say the world will end in fire
Some say the world will in ice
From what I've tasted of desire
And while I'm sorry for the funeral pyre

Those who hold with fire pray
The rain will come and douse the flame
Forgetting hardened hearts of man
Who hold the oceans in their hand

Fire's a mind all of it's own
In time it gets out of control
So when it gets too late to halt
It feels like the fire's fault

But when the world will end in ice
Someone has to make a choice
To lay down in a wintered spring
And to take the blame for everything

So walk the world at the end of days
Past histories that leaving made
The world is full of heroes, burned
And villains into statues turned

While we all can learn from time
And say that we would want the ice
In time we are revealed as liars
Everyone would take the fires

Fire And Ice  - Song a Week 2020, Week 44

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

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

Fire And Ice - Song a Week 2020, Week 44

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