Everyone who looks at us from the outside
Thinks we're so strong, unshaken walls
But that’s not who we are inside
We’re not made of stone at all

I believed for so long that strength
Meant hiding every crack and flaw
Building walls around my feelings
Not to cry, not to feel, not to fall

I ran for years from my own pain
From the scars I carry deep within
I thought showing them would make me weak
But now I know, that’s where strength begins

You showed me it’s not weakness to feel
That glass hearts can break and still heal
They shatter, then shine even brighter
Glass hearts, glass hearts

I’m not afraid to feel anymore
To break and fall apart again
‘Cause I’ve learned that life is made of this
To feel it all, to feel the pain

Even when it tears us open
It’s how we know we’re still alive
I’m not afraid to live, to feel
And if this glass heart breaks... it will survive

You showed me it’s not weakness to feel
That glass hearts can break and still heal
They shatter, then shine even brighter
Glass hearts, glass hearts


Glass Hearts

Flowers I Leave Along the Way .wav

“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

Raging Storms

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

"Last Day Of November" (#412, 201108)

Weren't no mobile telephones when she was growin' up
No VCRs no microwaves or credit cards
Kids respected mothers and the neighbors knew each other
And music seemed to come straight from the heart

Joe was 44 years old and Pat was 37
When they said their vows and they meant every word
Raised a couple kids up before he was called to heaven
She stuck around to help us here on earth

She's seen it all since '41 been watchin' as our world becomes
Stranger than her parents could have guessed
She's loved and lost and learned a lot 'bout what it means to walk with God
Somethin' tells me she's got no regrets

The one she loves is waitin' for her on the other side
But she's here with us tonight while we remember
The last day of November

This year's been a hard one we said goodbye to Loretta
In little old Point Pleasant West Virginia
Well times are tough but all things pass it changes like the weather
Might get better any minute

She's seen it all since '41 been watchin' as our world becomes
Stranger than her parents could have guessed
She's loved and lost and learned a lot 'bout what it means to walk with God
Somethin' tells me she's got no regrets

The one she loves is waitin' for her on the other side
But she's here with us tonight while we remember
The last day of November

Week 46a - Last Day Of November (201108)

Deanna Davis - Onward Now Love (original)

Julia’s song for week 46 of #songaweek2020. I didn’t set out to write this song but it found me anyway. For a tidy frame, you could go back and listen to this one from 2016 - https://soundcloud.com/cabin-of-love/pulse Photo from the Houston Chronicle.

I got one hand on the devil’s backbone
And the other on an angel’s breast
I got two eyes on the shiny prize
And a pocket full of nothing left

Take cover, I’m going in
I can’t ever not win
 
I got one hand on the holy bible
And my fingers crossed behind my back
I got two ears forever tuned
To the ravings of the maniacs

Take cover, it’s gonna hit the fan
It’s all pieces of my perfect plan

One Hand

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

All Of Us

Rich Waring