I love collaborating with you, Nadia! This was a lovely story in song <3

© 2021 Nadia Cripps, Kristi McKeever, Kate Stanton & David Taro.
Music: Nadia Cripps, Kate Stanton & David Taro. Vocals: Kate Stanton, Lyrics: Kristi McKeever. Piano: Nadia Cripps, All other instruments: David Taro. Demo: Nadia Cripps, Kate Stanton and David Taro.

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Remembering Those Days (50/90 Collaboration)

You were my best friend
A mini me, my bookend
We rode bikes out in the road
Drank water from the hose

You were my confidant
Found adventure on the spot
Loved the rain and getting wet
Stayed outside past sunset

You filled my life with fun
Taught me how to be someone
College came and we parted ways
But I love remembering those days

We were each other’s right hand
Like Robin and Batman
Mortal heroes who fantasized
Fighting wars and saving lives

You filled my life with fun
Taught me how to be someone
College came and we parted ways
But I love remembering those days

Your eyes are still as blue
That smile is still in you
I’m glad we can reminisce
And laugh like we did as kids

Remembering Those Days

50/90 2022 Songwriting Challenge collaboration with Nadia Cripps and David Taro. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

lyric:

If love was everywhere
The dance would never end
No one would pretend
And we’d share

If love was everywhere
A scar would never hurt
Stories would have no dirt
And we’d care

[ch]
Oh I wonder between
The lightning and the thunder
What will we see and
Who will we meet
Walking down the street 

If chivalry came alive
We’d see tons of gallant deeds
Water all the seeds
And we’d thrive

If happiness stood up today
Would we recognize its face
Put it in a vase
And see the love

Repeat ch 2X

If love was everywhere
If love was everywhere

©2022 Kristi McKeever (lyrics), Nadia Cripps (music and piano playing), David Taro (vocals, additional music)

If Love Was Everywhere (collab-Nadia Cripps+David Taro)

I composed a piano piece and in my liner notes wrote my story connected with it which you can see at the end of this description. I posted it on Bandcamp: https://nadiacripps.bandcamp.com/track/crying-daisy and on 50/90 where Kate kindly offered to collaborate on a song idea and here is our co-written song. Thank you for listening. 

Photo by zanna-76: pixabay.com/photos/daisy-sad-sadness-flower-nature-5088284/


Crying Daisy (A Story in Song)
© 2022 Nadia Cripps and Kate Stanton
Music / Piano by Nadia Cripps
Vocal melody / Vocal / Lyrics by Kate Stanton

Oh, once upon a time
in a village
a widow walked alone
on a rainy day
the tears fell from her face
she hides in the rain
she hides from the pain
oh, she hides in the rain
but not today

The widow found a daisy
with snow white petals
so pure
sunshine pushing through the sidewalk cracks
she cries
knowing
this is her soulmate saying, "hi"
"Hi".

She picks the daisy from its concrete prison
places it at home within vision
of his seat at the table
in a vase of multi-colors
so beautiful
as she wonders, how did he know?
That she misses him so
As she hides in the pain
oh she hides from the pain
she hides in the rain
but not today

because before the daisy withers
the widow takes it aside
to place it in his favorite book to dry
and frames it on the wall
above her piano
where she creates the most
BEAUTIFUL songs for him
to say "hi"
Back to her soulmate saying "hi".
Once upon a time.

Initial story by Nadia Cripps:
Once upon a time there were two people. They lived in different countries but one day a woman came to London and she met her prince charming. They became friends and then they got married. They could have lived happily ever after if her prince later didn't pass away. His widow is walking alone on a rainy day. Her tears are difficult to see because the rain hides them. She looks on the ground and there is a daisy covered in rain, just like her tears. She picks the daisy and holds it next to her heart. She met a soulmate, a flower which is crying like her and it seems to her that they are crying together, missing prince charming. Then she comes home holding a rainy daisy. She puts it in a vase which was a favourite of her prince. It has four beautiful colours: green, blue, red and gold. She will hold on to her special, happy memories of them together. But life will never be the same. It has been divided into before and after.

Crying Daisy (A Story In Song)

If emotions go beyond what words can express, 
indulge in a sweet orchestral work about romance of love. 
Let the soaring strings, wind instruments and brass notes whisk you away to a world of romance and passion. This song celebrates the beauty and depth of true love, a tribute to the magical connection shared by two hearts beating as one.

Romance for Lovers

Romance For Lovers

Music by Kate Stanton & 12 Below
Lyrics by Edwin C. Balder
Art by 12 Below

My friend, indie songwriter/lyricist Edwin H. Balder, sent me these lyrics as a Christmas gift late last year. He encouraged me as I was recovering from a major health blow & surgery. Now it is Ed's turn. He's having some health struggles yet continues to write. We want to encourage him. 12 Below and I hoped to surprise him with music set to his lyrics. 

Ed, we are all rooting for you--prayers, positive vibes, and healing music your way!! Thank you for inspiring so many of us. @edwin-balder

Passages

Passages (Featuring lyrics by Edwin H. Balder)

Piano instrumental written by Nadia Cripps
Lyrics written and sung by Christine Winchester
Concept and lyric content taken from Unicorn Key Oracle Challenge prompt during FAWM 2024

LYRICS:
How many seeming confines are true reality?
How many childish fears turn out to be false boundaries?
Now we all have limits - only human after all
but don't go fabricating your own walls.

If your fears are valid, they don't have to hold you back.
Can you try to change your life and fill in what you lack?
If the fear's not justified, it's time to let it go
and Soar!

All the fallacies are just pushing you around.
They like to deceive and pin you to the ground.
But limits are not facts,
It's time to break away and relax.
Don't have any doubt,
It's time to call them out
and Soar.

Don't think you'll never get it
and somehow you're exempt.
You can try to new things
and learn from every new attempt.
You're a work in progress
Are you ready to fly?
You're a thing of beauty
Soaring High

Soaring High (collab With Nadia Cripps)

2024 FAWM collaboration. Image by Ząbczyk Waldemar from Pixabay

Lyrics:

I found a glove
Out on a morning jog
There was no one around
But you and your dog

A quick hello
Did you drop this
Who knew this was the moment
My whole life would shift

It was love
And I knew right then
When you smiled at me
I’d see you again 
It was love
Sweet energy
Just seconds later
My heart knowing

The sun was warm
Like your friendly eyes
You started to talk to me
Do you remember why

We continued to walk
Slowly down the street 
The day felt as bright 
As the snow on the trees

It was love
And I knew right then
When you smiled at me
I’d see you again 
It was love
Sweet energy
Just seconds later
My heart knowing  

I found a glove
It was love

©2024 Nadia Cripps (music, piano, demo), Kristi McKeever (lyrics), Jeffrey Walker (vocals, demo)

It Was Love (collab w/Nadia Cripps, Jeff Walker)

The Willow Recalls

FAWM 2024 collaboration. ©2024 Kristi McKeever (lyrics), Nadia Cripps (music, piano, demo), Christopher Matthew Smith (vocals, vocal melody, demo). Image by Luis Wilker WilkerNet from Pixabay

lyrics:
I never thought it’d be easy
You never said it’d be fair
I guess I’m old-fashioned
Thinking that you’d care

I never thought you’d wander
You never said you’d stay
I guess I’m left to wonder
What drove you away

When dark clouds hover
Descend upon a heart
I can feel a cold wind
That somehow leaves a mark
I keep looking for what’s right
Oh, why is it so hard
When dark clouds hover
And descend upon a heart

I never asked for the moon
You never gave it to me
I guess we aimed too low
And fell like wilted leaves

I fought to win at love
You fought to win a battle
I guess we wouldn’t last
With a bond that was so fragile

When dark clouds hover
Descend upon a heart
I can feel a cold wind
That somehow leaves a mark
I keep looking for what’s right
Oh, why is it so hard
When dark clouds hover
And descend upon a heart

I’m not afraid of the shadows
After all they come from the light
Just looking for some clarity
When day turns into night

Repeat ch

Dark Clouds (collab w/Nadia Cripps & Christopher Matthew Smith)

The composition was inspired by the poem "Crossing the Water" by the American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).

Crossing the Water

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.

Crossing the Water

This composition was inspired by a reading of the poem, "The Swan" by Mary Oliver.

The Swan

Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?

So Says the Swan

Nadia Cripps is a piano teacher, a composer, a pianist and a songwriter. Nadia's music is based on classical traditions, it's gentle, romantic and melodic. Nadia would like her music to be used in movies, theatre productions, radio programmes, documentaries, performed in concerts, gigged. All Nadia's compositions are copyright. Nadia composes instrumental music and songs. Many of Nadia's songs are composed with her collaborators who write lyrics. Nadia also writes lyrics. Nadia's music and songs with her collaborators and her own songs reached semi-finals and finals in UK Songwriting Contest and Song of he Year Contest. Nadia wrote more than 30 articles on various music subjects. Please contact Nadia via your message if you are interested in collaborations or using her music.

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