Name: Beat Of My Heart SC by Rowena Simpson
Duration: 4 min 20 s
Description: This is a song about missing someone and how utterly useless it is to have a phone conversation with that someone, when what you want more than anything is to be next to them.

Beautiful track Rowena, pleasure to hear :)

A sweet, expressive song that you sing beautifully Rowena. Durge

Beautiful use of the alternating chord voicings and works very well with the vocal melody line giving the song a sweet jazzy/bluesy sound.  Nice work.

What a great track. Amazing vocal performance!

raw and no fuss and that lovely tone in your voice , that’s what i like about your songs

Cool intimate song, sung with a lot of delicacy in the voice.I discover you Rowena.

Got to work with Marc Freak @marcfreak on this one after he foolishly offered to, in a comment on a track of mine. I spent a bit of time in London in the late eighties. Boy George was king, the food was still mostly bland and there were a million different rules for dress depending on where you went. Funny how sometimes things can be so foreign and familiar at the same time. I have lots of thoughts but I won't bore you. Oh and the music. I knew most of the bands but it did change my perception a bit to hear them in context. Thanks so much Marc for the singing, melody, lyrics and maybe some context. ;)
Lyrics:

PERFECT DREAM
Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire
Like a drug bust with a visible wire
But its worth it for the time that we spend
And I pray they don't end

All I crawled through has the skin busy itching
And my internet is permanently glitching
But I cannot bare the time we're apart
Its a trial of the heart

CHORUS
Is this just a perfect dream that's coming true?
I want to spend the whole of my brief life with you

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And although you are freaking I'm loving this dream come true
With you

And the time I have left grows ever shorter
I am drowning in invisible water
Its a failure on my part I can't swim
And the prospects look grim

There's a torch that ever shines in the distance
Hold my hands up - show no signs of resistance
I'm a prisoner of love 
I don't mind in fact I'm pleased to do time

CHORUS

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And everyone's peeking 
I'm loving this dream come true

Perfect Dream (A Marc Freak Collaboration)

Our cover of Einstürzende Neubauten's song. Please listen to the wonderful and sublime original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz6G6l1MZlg&ab_channel=Einst%C3%BCrzendeNeubauten-Topic

Heaven Is Of Honey

This is the fourth part of the story of Veronique and Jeremiah, going backwards in time.
The music and cover artwork is by the wonderful BoxTox https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493 based on his 'I Remember My Friends and How We Used To Play' https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493/i-remember-my-friends-and-how-we-use-to-play Thank you Jonas : )
I added the bass, story and vocal. 
Today the Welsh Senedd (Parliament) has outlawed smacking children.

Jeremiah was a naughty boy
His daddy told him so
Though he tried to be a good boy
and he tried with all his might
He couldn't make them happy
He never seemed to get it right

Veronique was pale these days
At times he'd see her shaking
I love you mummy he would say
To try and make her better
But that just seemed to make things worse
It just seemed to upset her

I'll look after us mummy
Jeremiah said
Stroking Veronique gently as she lay upon the bed
Let's go to the picnic on Saturday
That would be lots of fun
Perhaps, if we ask her nicely
Dominique could come?

Your daddy is a nasty man
and he's never coming back
When Jeremiah thought about
The things that he would lack
He wouldn't miss his daddy
Or his shouting or his smacks

Jeremiah Was A Naughty Boy (music by BoxTox, bass and story by Garddwr Porffor)

Lyrics, music & vocal : Grave
All other instruments & mix : PJ Project

Be What You Can W/ Grave

Haldir

Original by Steely Dan 1972
Acoustic guitar, lead guitar & vocal : Docvet

Dirty Work W/ Docvet

Gin Blossoms Cover.  Story about a time ago:

I lived in Tempe, AZ from 1987-92 where the Gin Blossoms originated. When I was 21 in 1989 I was able to see them play at Long Wongs. Before I turned 21 I listened to them in the street in front of the bar along Mill Ave with the other underage kids. Long Wongs (now gone) was a chicken wing and beer joint with live music on Mill Ave. A fixture in Old Town Tempe. The Gin Blossoms sometimes also played at Long Wongs incognito as the “Del Montes” and played for about five hours straight and played old TV theme songs along with all their original material and the hits before they were hits like "Mrs. Rita" and "Allison Road". Hearing Allison Road ring-out over Mill Avenue late at night was a common sound and anyone could hear that song a hundred times and still love it, a great tune.  Once I saw the Del Montes with Elvis The Cat, a neighborhood street artist and overall character. Robin Wilson is also a truly kind man. He once set me up at an open mic at the Sun Club in Tempe around 1990 so I could sing a few songs for my new girlfriend. He also worked at Tower Records where I was a regular.  Anyway, I just met this amazing girl and wanted to impress her and sing her some songs and he also hosted an open mic at the Sun Club, another local dive bar and Tempe music institution at the other end of town. That ended up being the girl I took to Seattle and married. And I never got to thank that Gin Blossoms singer for setting me up, introducing me, and doing my sound to make a good impression - he became a rock star and I moved to Seattle with the girl. But all remains well to this day with thanks to him. Robin Wilson is a Class Act  JT
🐣
https://wc.arizona.edu/papers/92/catalyst/edition8/05_1_m.html

Follow You Down - Ode To Long Wongs

Follow You Down - Ode to Long Wongs (Kitchen Pop)

Endless Sky

Available on all the platforms (Spotify, Apple music, Tidal...) 

Philomène Lemaire: Lyrics, composition, voices, acoustic guitar, MIDI keyboard, editing.
Edited with BandLab

Uploaded on SoundCloud: 30/11/2024
Written: 10/2024

Romantic Motion

Just one touch (Hymn #759)

This is a song about missing someone and how utterly useless it is to have a phone conversation with that someone, when what you want more than anything is to be next to them.

Beat of My Heart

Beat Of My Heart SC

Hello! Thanks for stopping by.  I write songs in reaction to life, quite often my own, or the lives of those around me.  Sometimes my song tells me what I'm thinking before I've even realised myself.  
I hope there is something here that resonates with you, I'd be really delighted to hear your comments.  
I started writing and playing again in March 2015 after a break of about 20 years having realised that life is short and I'd better crack on! I self released my 9 track CD 'Your Life' in 2017 and have since written many songs which will eventually end up on a 2nd 'album'!  I’ve had a couple of radio plays on BBC Introducing and played at a few local singers nights, but I’m really blown away by this Soundcloud community,  there’s a treasure trove of real music on here and the support is really appreciated.  
March 2021 update I've been teaching myself keyboard and have found it an inspiration for song writing and so my more recent tracks are written and performed with the piano keyboard.  
First memory of being captured by Songwriting was sitting behind a sofa aged 10 at a party and discovering Carol King’s Tapestry and a turntable. Teenage years dominated by an obsession with David Bowie, his word craft, imagery, story telling and his example of being able to constantly reinvent himself and not be pigeonholed. 
All tracks are my own compositions and performances except extra rhythm guitar and percussion on ‘Doing Time’ which was Carl Hetherington. 
Most of the images I have used are my own original artwork.  I now have an Instagram page where I’ll be posting my art at rowenaartandmusic 

https://www.instagram.com/rowenaartandmusic 

Thanks for stopping by, it’s much appreciated.

Beat Of My Heart SC

Rowena Simpson

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