So well put together. Really love this one Rich 

This is really lovely, Rich. Fantastic arrangement, and that chorus. Mmmm, so good.

This one feels especially regal to me, particularly dignified. There's an air of officiality to its presentation, maybe it's related to your great sustained chords in passing in the chorus, and/or the layered voices. Really beautiful.

The piano coming in on the second verse is a great touch. This is a wonderful song, Rich, with soaring emotion.

Wow Rich! It starts beautifully and just gets more and more beautiful as you add to the arrangement. Live the message in it too.

well this one has made my day-its a rare jewel.

Wow, this one just drew me in. Illustrating its own lyric, "every pool is deeper than it looks." The chorus is so strong, lyrically and melodically. Love the doubled vocals at the end.

A collection of observational songs about love and life with a touch of humour and a unique voice

WAVENEY

“Edit That Part Out” (#405, 201021)

The stars were shining the moon was full
Your hair was silky in the twilight calm and cool
We traced the water step by step
Beside the harbor when the world had gone to bed

And it was epic like a movie
When a perfect ending turns it all around
Never mind all the ways you fooled me
In the memories I edit that part out

Our days were golden our nights were sweet
There was magic in the moments in between
We kissed the rain drops in the summer glow
And in winter we made angels in the snow

It was worth it the years of hoping
Picture perfect up until it all went down
Forget the fact that my heart was broken
When I think of you I edit that part out

Every autumn around November
I could let regret surround me even now
But I choose not to remember
When I think of you I edit that part out

Week 43a - Edit That Part Out (201021)

First three lines are Robert Frost's. 

*****

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say the world will in ice
From what I've tasted of desire
And while I'm sorry for the funeral pyre

Those who hold with fire pray
The rain will come and douse the flame
Forgetting hardened hearts of man
Who hold the oceans in their hand

Fire's a mind all of it's own
In time it gets out of control
So when it gets too late to halt
It feels like the fire's fault

But when the world will end in ice
Someone has to make a choice
To lay down in a wintered spring
And to take the blame for everything

So walk the world at the end of days
Past histories that leaving made
The world is full of heroes, burned
And villains into statues turned

While we all can learn from time
And say that we would want the ice
In time we are revealed as liars
Everyone would take the fires

Fire And Ice  - Song a Week 2020, Week 44

Song a week challenge - not on theme

There's a story behind this...but when we've played it to a couple of people the imagery they've associated to the story has been fascinating

I'd love to hear your imagery

And yes - Synthia is back out for a background spin!

Soldier

Raging Storms

BREATHE IN

Meow Pretty Kitty 
by Erin Wolf, Laurie & David Easterling © 11/3/2020 Little Chute, WI and Oak Ridge, TN

*Who doesn't write a song about a high maintenance cat filled with puns while trying to avoid 24/7 election news cycles?*

My cat knows I’m the second smartest 
Person in the room
She eats all my tuna sushi 
'Cause fish is brain food

We all know who’s in charge here
She treats me like her servant
Got a fur-midable cat-ittude
Yeah ya’ know she’s full of it

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooowwwwww
What a purrrrrr-sonality
She hunts all night, sleeps in sunlight
She knows she’s a pretty good kitty (pretty kitty)

Don’t fur-get she’s the Great Catsby
Never tells me where she’s been 
She leaves surprise gifts at my door
Howling & yowling to come in

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooowwwwww
What a purrrrrr-sonality
She hunts all night, sleeps in sunlight
She knows she’s a pretty good kitty (pretty kitty)

She’s the whole kit-n-caboodle
My fur-ever Cat-astrophe 
I’ve accepted her feline ways
And the pawprints on my fur-arri 

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooowwwwww
What a purrrrrr-sonality
She hunts all night, sleeps in sunlight
She knows she’s a pretty good kitty 

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooowwwwww
What a purrrrrr-sonality
She hunts all night, sleeps in sunlight
She knows she’s a pretty good kitty (pretty kitty)

Meow Pretty Kitty

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

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020

*My apologies to my neighbors who may or may not have endured many, many takes during recording...*

well i look at you as you walk down the avenue
hot as hell and looking so damn cool
there's some kind of magic that's drawing me further in
oh i bet your love is the best kind of sin

you look my way and take a moment to say hey
oh you got my body tingling in some kind of way
who would've thought i'd fall for someone like you
only time will tell which one of us is playing the fool

come on in
let's take a spin

you know
i know
something here that we can't miss

we feel
it's real
all this heat between us

you see
i see
something's beginning

don't hold back now, no
just let go

i know your heart's been broken, beaten, and bruised
so has mine, we both know what we've got to lose
but no worries, baby, you know that i mean you no harm
all i want is your loving on these cold nights to keep me warm

Just Let Go

G                                   C                     D/F#                G
There’s a dry desert breeze in the air here tonght
                  G                C             D/F#
but we’re only half way thru November
                 EM                   C                    D/ZF#             G
AND this year has been so hard and such a long figt
        
                C               D                G
oh lets finish the year well together

        C                                                      EM              D/F
and remember the days that were lonely and long
                      C                                    D
when we stayed in for what seemed forever
               G                    C                       D/F                EM
but we got to hang out here and write and few songs
             C                      D                  G
yeah I think we are all pretty clever



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C         EM           D/F       G
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Farmer’s Faith by Erin Wolf, Laurie & David Easterling © 11/17/2020 Little Chute, WI and Oak Ridge, TN

Like lightning on the horizon 
When the thirsty land is barren 
Brings the promise of rain
And my still small hope for the grain  

The wind keeps pushing me along
Chimes sing mysterious songs  
Weathervane is spinning 
Am I losing or winning                                                                                                                                 
Wind keeps on pushing me along

Working to feed my family
Ploughing fields planting seed
Waiting on the rains that will bring
Empty winter fields into spring

Waiting for the great unknown
Rain to water fields we have sown
Wheat will take root and grow tall
A farmer’s faith is never small

All Of Us

Rich Waring

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