Song a week 2020 challenge - Week 17
Theme - Olive Branch

Anther demo done in lockdown with the family around so there are lot of things i would improve if i had time.

Olive Branch  - Demo- Song a week 2020 Challenge Week 17

Looking at this life that we all share
What a lot of things we have in common
No-one's getting out of here alive
No-one's going through without a struggle
And the same sun warms everyone

Chorus
And all of us were children
We all had games and dreams
And all of us are soldiers
As we fight our pasts and fears
And all of us were broken
And all of us can heal
And all of us is everything
And all these things,
And all these things I feel

Such a piece of work is every man
and every woman every
Heart and mind can fill a thousand books
All of us have seen more than a 
casual glance could understand
Every pool is deeper than it looks
And the same dawn calls to us all

Chorus

And none of us can make it on our own
We all have a need for
Someone to accept us as we are in our sweet hearts
But none of us are saints or saviours
No-one's gonna come and save us
From the bed that we keep making for our own selves
and time it always tells me that…

Chorus

All Of Us

This is half of a story.  Perhaps I will return to this idea later.

Collide (On the Other Side)

Well you know I saw it coming
Should have never crossed the tracks
But when I’m feeling good
It’s kind of hard to turn back

Well you know I spilled the coffee
On my only crisp white shirt 
But my tank top sure is sexy
Though my sneakers have seen some dirt

Oh I know we will collide
Cause I don’t belong — on the other side

Well you know he had the money
Had a gold watch and black tie
His jokes were stiff but funny
Hard to look him in the eye

Oh I know we will collide
Cause I don’t belong — on the other side

Collide (On The Other Side) - 11:26:20, 10.21 PM

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

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

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

Favorite One - (Me holding you)

"Look 0ut World" (#426, 201220)

L o o k out world I'm gonna' try
See this new determination in my eyes
I know my steps have wandered far
But here and now I've gotta' make a brand new start

L o o k out world I'm gonna' jump
And find out all the things I can become
No giving up now no turning back
Just these two soles that make their way along the tracks

L o o k out world I'm fallin' down
I did my best but I can't handle it right now
The lights are blinding there's all this noise
Nobody's listenin' to this little tiny voice

L o o k out world I'm standin' up
I got these boot straps that I'm pullin' from the mud
There's no more weakness or things to prove
And there ain't nothin' in this world that I can't do

Week 52c - Look 0ut World (201220)

The eighth and last song from Deconstructed

Cute Puppies And Cute Babies (a.k.a. my descend into madness song)

I'm so tired of the world as it is now
it's like no one ever has better things to share
I don't wanna live where I have to know every detail
every crazy little thing someone famous said 

I don't care who got offended
by stupid tweets on the web
I'm here for some feel-good content
someone please share

cute puppies and cute babies on my feed
cute puppies and cute babies is what I need
cute puppies and cute babies show me please
cute puppies and cute babies is all I ever need

feel so cynical, so self-destructive
my anxiety has gone on a rocket to Mars
I just wanna know the date when we finally can hug again
I don't wanna stay inside, i swear I'm going mad 

I don't care who gets offended
everyone should get a grip
here for the heart-warming content
someone please share

fill up my brain with oxytocin, cuteness overdosis
puppies and babies will make my heart melt
I just wanna feel good, real good, stay there if I could
but I'd rather be outside than in my mind

I am not alone when I feel lonely
you are not alone when you feel lonely
we are not alone when we feel lonely
we are not alone when we feel lonely

we don't care who gets offended
we are together in this
we're here for heart warming content
we're here to share

Deconstructed

Cute Puppies And Cute Babies

Right down to it

This is a song for when you have a friend stuck on a path of suffering but you can only do so much to help them.  I found writing the song helped me empathize with, or reconcile, the combination of what the outside world sees of this person's choices and what they can't see for themselves.  How many of you have been there with a loved one on a dangerous road with their blinders on?

I carry that rock
All over town
Someday I’ll bury it
Deep underground

I carry that rock
All over town
Someday I’m gonna bury it
Deep underground

The good book says
I’ll take my lumps
The story goes
Gotta turn another cheek

The good book says
In sickness and health
One day I will find out, just for myself

My friends all tell me
I’m losing my self
My dreams that were golden
Look mighty gray

When I’m awake, I make many dreams
But I just sleep, all damn day

I’m not who I was, but what was I anyway?
I’m not who I was, but who am I anyway?
The sun shall set, and my colors may fade.
The sun shall set, and my colors may fade.

Carry that Rock (The Good Book Says)

I have been playing other peoples songs for years. I am now trying to write a few of my own. This profile includes songs written between  2020 and the start of 2021

Olive Branch - Demo- Song a week 2020 Challenge Week 17

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