Name: You Could Turn Back, But Why Would You Want To - Song a Week 2021, Week 9 by Charlatan, PE
Duration: 3 min 11 s
Description: Photo from https://www.piqsels.com/en/public-domain-photo-jbapq/download under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/.

yes -great one Kent.Lovely stripped back feel-lots of space to enjoy here and such a cool guitar riff-so good. :)

I agree on the guitar lick. Nice feel, cool vocal

Damn - I'm totally catching a vibe on a hot summer night with music pouring out of a venue (as gigging returns, of course). These guitar licks are on. point.

Beautiful guitar motif -- your voice sounds particularly great on this too!

nice to hear you back on guitar again Kent... "walk into the golden light" very nice

Stepping up to the mirror to look clearly in your eyes and find the courage! Fantastic song for all who have to step up! 🙂🎶❤️👏 from David Easterling

What a great groove, and excellent lyrics. Like painfully good, it hits me right between the eyes (and then makes a bee line for my heart).

My City - Day 70 one take freestyle .m4a

"Kent Aitken Also Saved My Life" (#437, 210216)

It was dawn but also midnight
And somehow also 3am
I was moments from my last rites
Until I saw a man named Kent

It was Paris and Nova Scotia
And at the same time Annecy
He was sort of like a human Visa
Everywhere you want to be

So where's the conflict where's the drama
Where's the problem you may ask
You see I'd come across a deadly llama
That nearly ended my sorry ass

Why was he angry this crazy mammal
What was his problem his urgent strife
Turns out the llama had just been rankled
By Nik Newark's drum and fife

The creature charged me with nostrils flaring
I saw my life flash before my eyes
The lights were blinding the music blaring
I thought I just might die tonight

But then around the corner racin'
Came a man with a plan
The one and only Kent Q. Aitken
A banjolele in his hand

He lulled the llama by strummin' gently
Into a state so calm and soothed
And it got sweeter and downright friendly
Instead of freaked out by their tunes

So while I was once saved by the music
From Nik Newark's drum and fife
There came a night when in the confusion
Kent Aitken also saved my life

Week 07 - Kent Aitken Also Saved My Life (210216)

The Words I Heard

Where the Buses don't Run

"(You Could Turn Back But) Why Would You Want To" (#442, 210226)

 * co-written with Rob Lannan * 

Morning air smells like your perfume
Layin' sleepless in my bedroom
Day is fadin' to a full moon
Feels like a perfect time to lose you

From Hawaii to the bayou
We ain't shinin' like the stars do
Spark is burnin' out between me and you
Gone as midnight in the afternoon

Won't forget these moments with you
But what's been done baby we can't undo
Open up the goodbye door and walk on through
You could turn back but why would you want to

Drew my smile on like a cartoon
We can't change who we turn into
Engine all but runnin' on fumes
Close as hand grenades and horseshoes

Won't forget these moments with you
But what's been done baby we can't undo
Open up the goodbye door and walk through
You could turn back but why would you want to

We gave up there's no shame
Can't light a candle in the pourin' rain
I'm just gonna' say it I think we always knew
Someone had to walk away it might as well be you

[ image credit: "freepik", which I assume is just a ... pik? That is free? See link below, or I mean, don't, w/e ]

www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-candle-rain_2231309.htm

Week 09 - (You Could Turn Back But) Why Would You Want To (210226)

On every corner
On every street
It’s where they eat and pray and wait
And where they sleep

In rags in bunches 
Cardboard boxes
They lie in wait beneath the pain 
Of a life discarded

And we’re just people
We walk on by
Our children asking questions
With tears filling their eyes
 What going on here ma 
cant we try to make it change

change
please please
change

In every playground
In every school
The innocent unsuspecting one 
is called a fool

The weight of terror
The sting of lies
Each word that hits a broken shell
Who’s lost the will for life

And we’re just people
We walk on by
Our children asking questions
With tears in their eyes
 What going on here dad can we try to make it change

And in the darkness
Beneath the glow
Of neon skies and bad mens lies
Of pain she’d never knowm

Her dream a vapor
A faded hope
There’s nowhere here to run
There’s no safe place to go

And were the people
Won’t even try
To answer all the questions
That fall from our children’s eyes

What’s going on here
Can’t we make a change
Please can’t we can’t we try

change please - week 8 2021 SAW

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021
Instruments featured: guitar, mandolin

Week 8 SAW Prompt: Change please
*Note about the song: A bittersweet, yet hopeful song about break-ups and new horizons written whilst on a serious Adyn Townes kick.*

how long after you left
did you try to leave
were you trying to grow
or were you running away

was it all too close
all too soon
not enough space
was the air smothering you
with the smoke from 
a love still burning
a love still burning

you wanted change
needed change, please
then the world stopped
you were stuck 
bound in a haze

did your dreams shift then
or did you hold your peace
waiting for the light to shine
through the darkness
bringing release
bringing release

and change, did she 
come in the night
like a thief, taking your heart
in her flight
she's not what you expected
or what you came for
but will you give change a 
chance for something more

and change, did she
come in the night
like a thief taking your heart
in her flight
she's not what you expected
or what you came for
but will you give change a 
chance for something more
something more

how long after you left
did you try to leave
were you trying to grow
or were you running away

Change, Please

Photo from https://www.piqsels.com/en/public-domain-photo-jbapq/download under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/.

You Could Turn Back, But Why Would You Want To - Song a Week 2021, Week 9

We woke at 3 am
Met at the top of Holyrood
Pulled the stars into our eyes with a telescope lens

God pulled a night sky curtain
We drew the constellations
Time reeled a night sky film
Shot with shooting stars until

We fell in love
You with someone else

You stopped waking at 3am

I hear he calls you a Cassandra
About the things you know are true
I count the ceiling tiles
In my sleepless bed at night

At 3:02 am
You had a baby girl
Anna Cassiopeia 
Welcome to the world



Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovers_Key_Stargazing_(Unsplash).jpg under CC1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cassiopeia - Song a Week 2021, Week 9

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021
Instruments featured: Concert Ukelele, Guitar, Mandolin
Video (from "The Songs We Write" showcase): https://youtu.be/8fEsTn8kFik

Week 9 Prompt: You could turn back, but why would you want to?

meet me at the willow tree
where i'll give my love to thee
true to you i'll always be
together 'neath the willow tree

oh my dear
can you hear
our time is near
step out together - no fear

down by the crackling fire
i lay myself down on the wire
no matter what will transpire
here beside the crackling fire

oh my dear
can you hear
our time is near
step out together - no fear

you could turn back but why would you want to
when you know this love is true
side-by-side we'll see it through
you could turn back but why would you want to

oh my dear
can you hear
our time is near
step out together - no fear

meet me at the willow tree
where i'll give my love to thee
true to you i'll always be
together 'neath the willow tree

The Willow Tree

I wrote this when I was living in London England about my mood at the time. 
Recorded with producer Mark Keefner in LA years later.
The late Jimmy Griffin from the group Bread was a big fan of this song!

You Could Turn Back, But Why Would You Want To - Song a Week 2021, Week 9

Charlatan, PE

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