Semi-Finalist UK Song Contest 1st Stage in Retro & World Sections. (could well be a winner!!)

Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
your daddy's out drinkin’
your momma's close to breakin’ down

Kickin’ stones across the street
with your dirty clothes and your dirty feet

  Pram wheels and rusty nails
  go carts with imagined vapour trails
  cold soup on a rainy day
  gutter child will always find a way

Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
gladiator with a trash can lid
lemonade for your red hot face to swig

Chief pow wow what’s his name
play pretend to stop you goin’ insane

  Pram wheels and rusty nails
  go carts with imagined vapour trails
  cold soup on a rainy day
  gutter child will always find a way

Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
Gutter child you’ll be alone tonight
your playground is the dirt
and it helps to cover all the hurt

   On an old torn feather bed
   sleep and dream of better times ahead
  
  Pram wheels and rusty nails
  go carts with imagined vapour trails
  cold soup on a rainy day
  gutter child will always find a way
   
    oh yes he will

    always find a way

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Gutter child © 2021

You were so different
to everybody else
they never got you
they never got you

They didn’t laugh
never got your jokes
they talked about you
but never to you

Maybe someday
when love is stronger
there’ll be enough to go around
no one will be in the lost and found

Maybe somehow
no one will feel lonely
they’ll be included with the crowd
yes included, not put down

You left a letter
with desperate words
now they can see you
now they can feel you

Maybe someday
when love is stronger
there’ll be enough to go around
no one will be in the lost and found

Maybe somehow
no one will feel lonely
they’ll be included with the crowd
yes included, not put down

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Different ©  2021

What do you do in those dark places
that you roam... when you leave yourself

Do you still stumble when you look in the mirror
to find that its somebody else

  and when I lift your head up and see the tears that fall, I'll say...

          Believe me,  nothin' stays the same there's always 
          somethin' else...somethin' else beyond the pain 
          believe me, when your soul is on the floor  you'll find
          a way... but maybe not today

How do you live when the blackest shadow
casts fear..... across your face

and how do I give when my tender moments
don't find a warm embrace

   and when I lift your head up and see the tears that fall, I'll say...

          Believe me, nothin' stays the same there's always 
          somethin' else...somethin' else beyond the pain 
          believe me, when your soul is on the floor you'll find
          a way... just maybe not today

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Believe me   (2021 version) © 2017

This Town’s abandoned and neglected
cola cans glisten on the streets
a deserted taxi station in the rain
has missin’ doors and broken window panes

 lonely  howlin’ dogs of the alleys
plastic food bags empty from their search
swingin’ shop signs play like violins
to an audience of plastic mannequins

  Out of date hollywood scene
  Is that how your life has been?
  Is that how your life has been?

As neon lights flicker through the haze
cardboard boxes travel with the wind
Shadows make you feel you’re not alone
a phone booth waves with a hangin’ phone

   Out of date hollywood scene
   Is that how your life has been?
   Is that how your life has been?

Your clothes weigh heavy soaked with rain
and lengths of gutter swing on just a nail
A traffic light changes red to green
but there’s no traffic... to be seen
   
   Out of date hollywood scene
   Is that how your life has been?
   Is that how your life has been?

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Hollywood scene ©  2021

I leave the bathroom, close the door
walk slowly down the creaking hall
the silence breaks amid the chimes
these are the loneliest times

The broken shutter needs repair
just seems no point cos you’re not there
I might get round to it one day
its just too soon to say
                                                                                                    
before I sleep, I call your name
I just need something.. to feel the same

The nights are long and longer still
sometimes I barely have the will
to face another day like this
oh how I miss your kiss

before I sleep I think of you
and all the things we used to do

before I sleep, I call your name
I just need something.. to feel the same

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Before I sleep © 2021

Featuring Angie Yates (Backing vocals)

Beautiful child, but you can't see
the fear inside you grew
all they could say, when you ran away
is “what’s the matter ....with you?”

Tears still flow
down a drain with nowhere to go
I want everyone to see
you’re beautifully Broken
to me

and you’re different now, but I don’t care
I love you as you are
you feel the things that no one sees
you are a reservoir

Tears still flow
down a drain with nowhere to go
I want everyone to see
you’re beautifully Broken
to me

and what lies ahead we just don’t know
were healing just the same
these raging wars inside our heads
still find a kindred flame

Tears still flow
down a drain with nowhere to go
I want everyone to see
you’re beautifully Broken 
to me

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Beautifully Broken (Acoustic version) © 2022

Nice Summer Ibiza Style Chillout Mix Instrumental with Vocals

DANCE2DANCE BY KEN WARKE

Jasmine Elise - Vocals/Harmonies
Rafael Clifford - Ambience/Synth/Production
Zak Whitefield - Vocals/Guitar

Eagle Feather (feat. Jasmine Elise)

I’m runnin’ away
just as fast as I can go
I said I’m runnin’ away
just as fast as I can go

I have tried, to find a place inside myself
called home
and now I’m running away
and I’m feelin’ all alone

Nowhere to hide
but I just can't stop the rush
There’s Nowhere to hide
but I just can't stop the rush

Standin’ still makes me feel like I’m dying
and I’m so tired from the want of tryin’
got nowhere to hide
and I just cant stop the rush

Standin’ still makes me feel like I’m dying
and I’m so tired from the want of tryin’
got nowhere to hide
and I just cant stop the rush

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This was a one take live performance. So I could only work from one track in my DAW.
                                        LETS PRETEND

  part of you is absent
you're like a room with an empty chair
when I open the door there's no one there

  No kind of distraction
can fill your soul with the pretty things
that you once wore when you had wings

 you're unreachably high, but way down low
sometimes in life you just don't know.. what's goin' on
               I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend....that everything's gonna be alright
                      I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend.... everything's gonna be alright

 A part of me is missin'
The part of me that's me and you
that lifts me up like a big balloon

 I passed your audition
but the curtain closed with no encore
something left through the back stage door

you're unreachably high, but way down low
sometimes in life you just don't know.. what's goin' on
               but I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend....that everythings gonna be alright
                      I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend that everything's gonna be alright

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Composition - Ken Warke
Lyrics - Paul Harper

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Island Girl

I'm a Topline Songwriter from London. I write across different genres and have a variety of songs, so if you have a few minutes, have a listen to some of my songs and leave a comment if you have time.

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