I make these in my bedroom in Brooklyn. Aiming for one a week in 2015.

Covers (Bedroom Sessions)

The first full length album by Meghann Wright. Blacktop Records 2015. 

Nothin' Left to Lose

Recorded in my bedroom in Brooklyn. This started out as a scratch track (guitar and lead vocals are live one track) but I kept it because as soon as I finished there were sirens in the distance.  

"Hallelujah"

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah



Hallelujah - Meghann Wright (Leonard Cohen / Jeff Buckley Cover)

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true, I was made for you

I climbed across the mountaintops
swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you

Oh because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do, I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess

No they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what I've been through
Like you do, and I was made for you

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am

Oh but these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true, I was made for you
Oh yeah, well it's true that I was made for you

The Story - (Brandy Carlile Cover)

"The Drugs Don't Work"

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
'Cause I passed down my old street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

But if you wanna show, just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

I'm never going down, I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve Cover)

Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)

Vacancy

This old house has seen
Many visitors through the years
Most have come to me
Lonely prisoners to their fears

Runaways and broken queens
Charlatans and highway thieves
Hopin for a place to wait the night

Bloodshot eyes and dirty jeans
Drippin sweat and melted dreams
Beggin for a girl to shine the light

I never meant to leave the light on
Never meant to leave that door unlocked
But you were driving down that highway
And you came and you saw
My vacancy

Time has worn these halls
Blood and whiskey stains, love and sin
You could see it all
But you needed it and you barged in

You pulled in that rusty gate
Heaven knows it sealed my fate
Never should have let your kind walk in

Lock me up and throw away
The key until we end our days 
Alone and burn this dead house to the ground


Vacancy

In honor of being at SXSW, I covered Janis Joplin's first ever song "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" as she hails from Texas. Playing Departure Lounge 3/21/15 at 8pm 

"What Good Can Drinkin Do (Janis Joplin Cover)"

Leavin Cleveland
One of us has gotta let this go
One last look of me is all you’ll ever know
One way out don’t need another sign to read
Cuz baby this town just ain’t big enough

I’m leaving Cleveland today
I looked hard but couldn’t find another way
You know I love you, I’m so sorry I can’t stay
I got nothing left to bruise
And nothing left to lose

Too strung out to make sense of the road
This heart of mine it bears a broken, heavy load
Behind the streetlights darkness slowly grows
I don’t care where I end up just not in love

Don’t look back
There’s more to love than meets the eye
Stay on track
I’m drivin’ straight on through the night
Wide awake 
I won’t sleep till you’re far behind

Baby this town just ain’t big enough

I got nothing left to bruise
And nothing left to lose
And nothing left

Leavin' Cleveland

Good Manners
It’s my pleasure to ask you over tonight
I’ll light candles and use good manners tonight 
 
I can’t wait 
I can’t wait for you
 
We’ll dress up and use good silver tonight
I’ll tell stories and pour your whiskey tonight
 
Another moment and I’d be looking at you (cut one measure)
Another moment and I’d be home with you
 
It’s my pleasure to ask forgiveness tonight
Please come over, please come home tonight.

Good Manners

LYRICS

Black Kiss 
Out in the crowd through the dark and the mist 
Between the long white lines and the cigarettes 
A treacherous man with powerful thirst
For a wicked good time and a girl at her worst

You’re no good but this game I know I can’t win
Taste your lips and you suck me right in
Black Kiss

I know it ain’t right and I know it ain’t love
I know it’s wrong but I can’t enough
Snake in the grass with his teeth in my heart
Damned and devoted to tear me apart

Shakin sweatin I need more and more
Now I’m just a junkie slave to your black kiss

Hurts so good oh oh
Runnin through my veins
I can’t quit and I don’t wanna be saved black kiss

I give in you can send me straight to hell
Now I’m in deep and I can’t catch my breath
Without your smoke I might catch my death
Even if I try to leave you I just poison the next with my black kiss

Black Kiss

River

Look what you done
Hands covered in blood
You won’t see the sun
Risin tomorrow baby
Death on your hands
Glistenin in the sand
Don’t beg forgiveness for the
Devil comin soon

Don’t go down to the river baby
Don’t go down to the water’s edge
Don’t go down to the river baby
Ain’t nobody waiting for you there

I hoped against hope
I fought against fights
I shoveled and roped
I cried to the skies
I prayed to the gods 
I prayed to the damned
I drowned in the ocean
I drowned in your hands

Sold your wings for a pretty price
Can’t save you now from your wicked lies / life
Got no faith in a dirty soul
No holy water can clean you like fire

River

"Motorcycle Drive By" - Third Eye Blind

Summer time and the wind is blowing outside 
In lower Chelsea and I don't know 
What I'm doing in this city 
The sun is always in my eyes 
It crashes through the windows 
And I'm sleeping on the couch 
When I came to visit you 
That's when I knew I could never have you 
I knew that before you did 
Still I'm the one who's stupid 
And there's this burning 
Like there's always been 
I never been so alone 
And I've never been so alive 
Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by 
The cigarette ash flies in your eyes 
And you don't mind, you smile 
And say the world doesn't fit with you 
I don't believe you, you're so serene 
Careening through the universe 
Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free 
I hope you take a piece of me with you 
And there's things I'd like to do 
That you don't believe in 
I would like to build something 
But you never see it happen 
And there's this burning 
Like there's always been 
I've never been so alone 
And I've, I've never been so alive 
And there's this burning 
There is this burning 
Where's the soul I want to know 
New York City is evil 
The surface is everything but I could never do that 
Someone would see through that 
And this is our last time 
We'll be friends again 
I'll get over you, you'll wonder who I am 
And there's this burning 
Just like there's always been 
I've never been so alone alone 
And I've, and I've never been so alive 
So alive 
I go home to the coast 
It starts to rain I paddle out on the water 
Alone 
Taste the salt and taste the pain 
I'm not thinking of you again 
Summer dies and swells rise 
The sun goes down in my eyes 
See this rolling wave 
Darkly coming to take me 
Home 
And I've never been so alone 
And I've never been so alive

Motorcycle Drive By (Third Eye Blind Cover)

The result of a songwriting collaboration between Meghann Wright and Zac Malloy in Nashville, TN. Released via Blacktop Records February 23, 2018.

California

I was inspired to write this song while on tour with my friends the Green Gallows and wrote and recorded it with my friend Zac Maloy in Nashville, TN. 

Big Sky 

When I was just a kid clouds were more than clouds 
They were fighter jets and dragons, eagles flying around
All wrapped up in blue, going on forever
It was innocence and we had a perfect view

Now buildings block out heaven 
Our passions grown cold
still I remember everywhere I go

we’re all under the same big sky
living out the days of our l ives
keep dreaming,  	
keep chasing down the light
under the big sky

1000 miles to go, been on the road for days
somehow we’re still in Texas 
but I’m in a better state 
we’re setting ourselves free on the edge of the horizon
now all we really have to do is breathe

underneath the same big sky
living out these days of our l ives
keep dreaming, 
keep chasing down the light
under the big sky

Now buildings block out heaven
No stars, just city lights
But I know when I go to sleep tonight
We’re all under the same big sky

follow me where angels fly
under the big sky

Big Sky

*a song for drunk lovers*

hour after hour
night after night
your superpowers feed the fight
i’ll go home alone
i’ll play the lonely pawn
I’ll get you off my mind for the last time

you make a wish you make your plans
and hope to god it makes a difference
in someone else’s hands

you play the crowd talk way too loud
and hope to god and beg forgiveness
from anyone you can

building jumper flame thrower
masked caper headline owner

Superpowers - ConcertWindow song for Sean

"Waiting..."

A coma might feel better than this,
attempting to discover where to begin.
You're weighed down, you're full of something.
Of sickness, and desertion.
You're weighed down, you're full of something,
you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

Hoping a better place is all I need,
with moments of innocence and mystery.
Oh, it's the little things you miss.
Like waking up all alone.
Oh, it's the little things you miss,
when you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.
All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

Waiting (City And Colour Cover)

"Everyone Will Die" - Motion City Soundtrack // 

Everyone will die
And everyone will lose
So what you going to do with
The moments you have before it's you

It doesn't mean goodbye
It's just a simple truth
The shedding of a lifetime of layers
That once embodied you

Like winter into spring
And summer into fall
The cycle of intense introspection
Before the curtain call

Cause everyone must die
And everyone must lose
So who you gonna love in meantime
Before it catches you

Everyone will die (Everyone will die)
Everyone will lose (Everyone will lose)
It doesn't mean goodbye (It doesn't mean goodbye)
It's just a simple truth

Every single smile
And every single tear
Reminders of the moments we shared
In the instant we were here

If everyone will die
And everyone will lose
Then who you going to love in the meantime
Before it catches you


Everyone Will Die (Motion City Soundtrack Cover)

A song for John PD Bird, a commission reward from one of my Concert Window broadcasts!  www.ConcertWindow.com/MeghannWright

Lyrics:
I been runnin from my past like it was a burnin building
I been runnin from my heart like it’s a great big stone (that’s)
chasing me down tunnels I know I just don’t belong

I’ve been flying from the loves I’ve lost and the ones who still love me,
I’ve been flying round the world like it was a great big boat
That I don’t wanna land on, I fear I’ll sink it for sure

I’m makin tracks on highways like it’s going out of style, 
looking for an answer Mile after mile after mile

Just give me something to run to
I been runnin all my life and I don’t wanna fight
Just give me something to run to 

I’ve been searchin for calling, some way to earn my bread
I’ve been searchin for an altar, someplace to bow my head
But I find are footprints, been runnin circles instead

I’m losin steam up river  and I’m drownin in my debt
But something keeps me goin, I can’t give up just yet

I just need something to run to
I been runnin all my life and now I'm fuckin tired
Just give me something to run to

Just give me something to run to
I been runnin all my life, now let's make it right
Just give me something to run to



Somethin To Run To (Acoustic) - Concert Window Commission

Facebook.com/MeghannWrightMusic // Meghann Wright is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter. A nomadic storyteller at heart, she has played many US / North American tours including Vans Warped Tour dates in support of her full length record Nothin' Left To Lose (Blacktop Records). She founded The City & The Heart in 2013, an organization dedicated to providing a supportive community for unsigned female artists in NYC. She has produced and released 3 studio albums. Meghann has been writing, singing, playing bass, guitar, sax, and performing live for 10 years. Born in CA, raised in HI, educated in NH, and has been in bands in MA, NH, and NYC. With a diverse background ranging from soul and blues to folk, Americana and indie pop, she employs whatever style she feels is most effective in delivering her musical message. Her lyrics are simple, straightforward, and from the heart, always inspired by her own experiences as a hard-working young woman and the people who have touched her life. On this SoundCloud site can be found her original demos which she records at home alone in her Brooklyn apartment, collaborations with other NYC artists, and recordings from previous musical projects. She has worked with such producers as Grammy Award-winning Aaron Levinson, Tim Gilles (Thursday), ( and Anthony "Rocky" Gallo (John Legend),  and has written with Zac Maloy (Carrie Underwood) and Mike Campbell (A Great Big World, Daya). Contact her at meghannbwright@gmail.com.

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