I'm a sucker for a latin groove. But this is so happy go lucky I just can't help jumping around to it. The key changes and production are super too. Great track, Nikki!!

Despite being written earlier, I am still hearing the thematic tie in with the prompt. Sounding good, Nikki.

This is so fun. Great track, Nikki! Love the horns too.

Ahh, another awesome Nikki Dean throwback! I'm loving it! I'm with Claes - can't help but move while listening!

A bit of Toploader in this....bring on the summer. Good song.

Absolutely lovely - felt like a radio hit!

impossible to sit still while listening to this fun one Nikki :)

I continue to be so impressed with all the wonderful writers on Song of the Week.
Although I contiune to write (just a bit slower at the recording) and  just so I stay in the loop I'm uploading something I loved singing for awhile back.
This one always makes me feel so good and I love the production of it.
Nikki Dean

ROOM TO BREATHE

DANCIN' IN THE LIGHT

The giving of your heart
(Mark I. Anderson)
Like a shot across the bow – just dancing in the wind 
She had your attention at hello
It doesn’t matter how – and it doesn’t matter when
The giving on your heart you can’t control

You could never choose – a love as clean as hers
Any more than you could stop the rain
There’s nothing left to prove – once that feeling stirs
The giving of your heart you can’t explain

(Chorus)
The giving of your heart – is giving all you’ve got
The good lord only knows the reason why
You can’t make it start – and you can’t make it stop
But you know it when you feel it deep inside
When all you knew before just falls apart
You’ve given her your heart

The giving of your heart – is a giving so divine
The good lord truly had to play a roll
Ours is but a part – the one that He assigns
The giving of your heart you can’t control
(Bridge)
In our universe there’s a trillion, trillion stars
We only have this one old heart to give
If you’ve given it before there may be a couple scars
But give it anyway that’s how a heart forgives

(Chorus)
The giving of your heart – is giving all you’ve got
The good lord only knows the reason why
You can’t make it start – and you can’t make it stop
But you know it when you feel it deep inside
When all you knew before just falls apart
You’ve given her your heart

Like a shot across the bow – just dancing in the wind 
She had your attention at hello
It doesn’t matter how – and it doesn’t matter when
The giving on your heart you can’t control
Like a shot across the bow – dancing in the wind
The giving of your heart you can’t control…

The giving of your heart

I still consider myself new to recording/mixing/DAWing, but that excuse seems weaker as I get into year 2 of regular recording. So trying to deconstruct the process and get better. This week I set out to write a song that wanted layers, including double-tracked vocals which I've never done - and unless I'm doing a distant room mic, probably will incorporate in nearly every project in the future.

*****

When she was done with the souls in Savannah
Headed up the highway to find me
Hair like the gold in California
The devil came up from eastern Georgia

The cracks in the floorboards all led to 
A young man’s soul and a fiddle tune
You can play with the devil when your hands are hot
Johnny’s mighta been but mine were not

I mighta let the devil into my bed
Dark black eyes all dressed in red
Left like smoke from cigarettes
I mighta let the devil into my bed 

It’s not sinking in just yet
Keep on drinking to forget
Left like smoke from cigarettes
I mighta let the devil into my bed

So I’m pouring wine into a hollow
And fixing photos I turned over
Saying a prayer that she’ll forget my number
Hoping that no one answers it

Savannah - Song a Week 2021, Week 18

chorus
You may be already a winner in this life
You may be already a grinner in the strife
You don’t look down
You wont look down

Your eyes fixed ahead
Not to the ground

You don’t look down
You wont look down

Your eyes fixed ahead
Not to the ground

Verse 1
There is beauty and pain
in the giving away
calling all of us home through the dark
In the waking and beating of our hearts ever bleeding
For far more than we dare ever ask

verse 2
There is hope held assured
In the promise secured
In the trust and reveal in the light
There’s a lifeline displayed
In the twilight of days
When our sorrow and joy writhe and fight

winner week 18 SAW2021

missed a few weeks-still hoping to catch up :) but here's week 25

1.Birthday pantomime week 25

we were like a ticking bomb
but we never knew it at the time
beneath the veil the thin veneer
of smiles and cheap red wine
we skirted round the cutting truth 
we flirted o so blind
dressed to impress from the dress up chest
for a birthday pantomime

love is a circus love is a show
all come to wonder
some never know
walk on a tightrope
fly through the air
promise you ll catch me
til youre not there 

we were like a spinning top
so destined for the deepest    fall
we’d dance for days then part our ways
and then return for more
the zing the zip the smile the pinch
our hearts a broken arrow
wrapped up in lies and no surprise
it dragged us to tomorrow

love is a circus love is a show
all come to wonder
all long to know
walk on a tightrope
fly through the air
promise you ll catch me
til youre not there 


we were like a party trick
that never turned out right
but still we d try it night and day
and break into an ugly fight
the size of lies the bright disguise
that smothered every little flame
 and even when some hope would rise
we snuffed it out the quicker

birthday pantomime SAW 25

Silver and single
(Mark I. Anderson)

A little past fifty – and starting again
With hair turning gray – you just can’t stop time
With so many losses – it’s time for a win
She’s silver and single – and she’s tryin’ to find

Another true soul – but where do you start
The old rules have all changed – and new ones begun
When she said I do – she gave away her young heart
She turned silver and single – when that world came undone

(Chorus)
Silver and single – and looking to find
A likeminded spirit – gentle and true
No longer that kid – she ain’t reached her prime
Now she finds herself doing – what silver and single folks do

Tonight’s her first date – someone she used to know
With a thousand feelings –that she used to feel
A little scared she thinks – just don’t let it show
Being silver and single – it's part of the deal

(Chorus)
Silver and single – and looking to find
A likeminded spirit – gentle and true
No longer a kid – she ain’t reached her prime
She finds herself doing – what silver and single folks do
No longer a kid – she ain’t reached her prime
She finds herself doing – what silver and single folks do

Silver and single

"Turn It Around" (#563, 220404)

There's a hundred one expressions
About things gone wrong
I don't got room for half of 'em
To fit in this here song

But I got little good news
About life's little fluctuations
I've yet to see it all come tumblin' down
Despite our limitations

When we didn't break it and we can't fix it
If we didn't start it and we cannot make it stop
Though we lack the power to 86 it
And we can't even guarantee we'll always be on top

Popular wisdom is I hear again and again
It'll be alright before the lights go down
So if it ain't alright yet then it's not the end
And we still got plenty of time to turn it around

We've all had that moment
Something's on the fritz
It all goes pear-shaped
And you get the yips

Things go sideways
You're at your wits' end
In dire straits
Remember my friend

Week 14 - Turn It Around (220404)

"Dust In A Beam Of Light" (#564, 220408)

 * co-written with Adam Howard Schneider * 

Boxes in the attic been there for years
Filled up with t-shirts and memories and tears
Stack of papers and a couple busted chairs
I could cry anywhere so why not there
Don't matter who's wrong  don't matter who's right
All that matters is this dust in a beam of light

Noise out in the world is deafening
Try to listen but I can't hear a thing
Were there words I coulda' said to make you stay
Anything so you'd still be here today
Well the door is locked and the only thing inside
Is me and some dust in a beam of light

Someday I'll make my way far away from here
Try to make all these ghosts disappear
No more strands of blonde when I vaccuum the floor
No more holdin' on if that's what I'm holdin' on for

Tax returns and phone bills we never paid
Books I didn't read but couldn't throw away
Dreams about a life that I'll never have
Wanna' see the future just look at the past
Focus on the one thing shining bright
A cloud of dust in a beam of light

Only thing that's real right before my eyes
Is just some dust in a beam of light

Week 15 - Dust In A Beam Of Light (220408)

Turn It Around
Copyright 2022 Erin Wolf

Week 14 Prompt: Turn It Around

i look to the light i have found
shining through the darkness
i don't know which way to go
but i gotta turn it around

the road ahead's uncertain
the road ahead is scary
i don't know what's 
coming on up ahead of me

but i know i can't stay here
can't stay where i've been
it's time to go
a new adventure's just waiting to begin

'cuz here there's nothing to do but
walk around in circles
there's nothing to do but
to walk around in circles

time to turn it around
time to turn it around

i listen for the sounds i have heard
sounds of freedom singing like a bird
i have heard the call on the horizon waiting
and i know they're waiting just for me for the taking

and there's nothing to do 
but walk around in circles
oh, there's nothing to do here
but walk around in circles

gotta turn it around
gotta turn it around

oh I've been scared to 
take that first step for fear
that i'll be dragged into
the unknown

and i don't know what is coming
but it can't be any worse
than all i've been through
all i've been through

gotta turn it around

i go where my feet are leading me
leading me into the next 
chapter of this journey

and i don't know who i'll come to 
and i don't know who i'll love
and i don't know who i'll fight for
oh could it be from above

but there's nothing to do here
but walk around in circles
no, there's nothing to do but
walk around in circles

gotta turn it around
i gotta turn it around
gotta turn it around

ooohooo, turn it around

Turn It Around

Copyright Erin Wolf 2022
Week 15 Song A Week

*Written & recorded in about 20 minutes due to time constraints this week.*

the ghosts, they are
coming 'round the bend
moving as they come and go 
with the wind
all without a warning
or a word to lend
these ghosts, they are
coming 'round the bend

these dreams, they are
coming on fast and strong
hellscapes and nightmares
each one dragging on
ain't no telling when they'll 
lift or how long
how long will they linger
'til they're gone

these monsters, they are
coming with a vengeance
their vision is clear, they've no
need for penance
it's all we can do to hold
them with our resistance
hold on now, dear loves,
hold on to avenge us

but now, beyond the grave
something is breaking
the ground is crumbling
the hills and mountains shaking
the powers of darkness 
suddenly are quaking
a glorious new day somehow
our victor is making

a glorious new day somehow
our victor is making
a glorious new day somehow
our victor is making

DANCIN' IN THE LIGHT

Nikki Dean

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