This is a little song about being a light in a dark world. <3

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Firelight

Lyrics - Sarah Cowart 2014

Puzzle pieces scattered on the floor
I tried to put you together baby but I can't figure out no more
Scrambled letters spelling out the words
I can not decipher and I have never seen at all

Chorus:
And well I've never had to try, it's always been there in the eyes of everyone before
You have a great disguise, a way to hide that I have never known before
Oooh--

Blurry vision coming from my eyes
I can not see you clearly though heaven knows I've tried
Puzzle pieces scattered on the floor
I tried to put you together baby but I can't figure out no more

Chorus Repeat 

Puzzle Pieces

Art by Gerard Russo

Lyrics - Sarah Cowart 2014



When I was a child, I never spoke like a child
Born to be wise, I lived inside of my mind
My every thought a fire;

And I'm still like smoke, I suppose I never awoke
From all of my dreams, adrift in life's little boat
An island afloat --

Chorus:
The things ahead the things behind
The things within the things outside
The darkness and the light combine
To weigh heavy on my mind
Heavy on my mind ---

There was a spring, I heard a little bird sing
The saddest song, reminded me it won't be long -- 'til everything is gone

And somewhere the words, though neither spoken nor heard
Seek ears that can learn to sing like that little bird
Even if it hurts --

Chorus repeat


Heavy On My Mind

Dark Things

Lyrics - Sarah Cowart 2013

Quick as the lightning on the sea
You change your mind about how it's gonna be
You walk into the middle of the room
Put up a wall where you just went through

It's your move, it's yours to lose

You want to make a difference out there
Where people talk and everybody stares
You want the world to think good of you
You go back and add another room

It's your move, it's yours to lose


Chorus:

And I can see from the outside looking in
The blueprint of the house where you want to live

It's your move, it's yours to lose

Bridge:

Well I held the eighth wonder of the world in my hands
But once you let it go you can't get it back again
If you want to hear God laugh, then tell Him your plans
What good is a castle built out of sand?

You want a legacy of wood and stone
To be remembered long after you're gone
But how can a mansion stand as proof
You did what you were sent here to do?

It's your move, it's yours to lose

Chorus Repeat 



Blueprint

Lyrics (Sarah Cowart 2009)
Photo (baby Sarah circa 1984)  

Sweetheart I think I know what you've been saying
And now I see the chances that you're taking
In the spirit of your song
In the rhythm of your words

Sweetheart you need the dreams that you've been chasing
You know those dreams are only for the waking
Keep yourself from fear
Keep your eyes on love

Chorus:
Make your way to the edge of the world
The vacant woman and the makeshift girl
You've got your wings with the hole in the side 
But will they fly___

Sweetheart you miss me and I know that you worry
Would you believe me if I said that I was sorry
The night will soon be gone
Your smile will light the moon

Chorus repeat x2

Sweetheart

Lyrics & Music - Sarah Cowart (2015)

I'm like rope, I hang on
Even if I am the only one
And you are a stone I tied myself to long ago

And you act and you act like you know me
But feel that it's alright 
To put me in my place like a child

And you say and you say that you told me 
Oh you feel that you have won 
Each time you forget what you've done

You complain to anyone you can tell
I'm not perfect, it can't be helped
But if you say you'd be better off anywhere else
I'll give you just enough rope to hang yourself (With)

We're like rope, torn apart
And hanging by a single thread 
And love is a knot tied together at both ends

And you talk and you talk down to me 
Just the way you learned to do 
To make a woman give into you

And you say and you say that you told me
Oh you feel that you have won
Each time you forget what you've done

Well you can curse and you can yell
That'll never make me bend to your will
But if you say you don't have any regrets
I'll give you just enough rope to hang yourself (With)

You complain to anyone you can tell 
I'm not perfect, it can't be helped 
But if you say you'd be better off anywhere else
I'll give you just enough rope to hang yourself (With)

Rope

Lyrics & Music - Sarah Cowart 2014

Out of reach and out of reason
The fire burns but there's no meaning 
In any of the times that I resist you
Or any of the ways you call to me

Chorus:
It doesn't matter what I do now baby
In spite of anything I say my darling
It won't make a difference in situation 
It can't change a thing for us at all
But I wish it weren't so 

My mind's awake but my heart's dreaming
Another day of endless teasing
Would it mean a thing if I said I loved you
It won't even count if I speak the words

Chorus Repeat x2

I Wish It Weren't So

I started this song several years ago, found it again, and finished it last week.  <3  Lyrics & Music Sarah Cowart 2015

Someday You Will

Lyrics & music Sarah Cowart 2015

You like to walk in your old shoes
Anything you can hold on to
There's nothing you're willing to lose
And nothing's good enough for you

You like to take it on the chin 
And tell it time and time again 
You've never forgotten when
You want things just the way they've been
 
Chorus:  
I can hear you, you're talking out of your head
It seems you just want to hear the sound of it
Once upon a time
Once upon a time

You want everything just so 
Like it was so long ago
You won't consider any more
Than what you already know

You like to walk in your old shoes
Anything you can hold on to 
There's nothing you're willing to lose
You've got the shoulda coulda blues

Chorus repeat x2

Old Shoes (Once Upon A Time)

Lyrics - Sarah Cowart (2016)
A new song demo made playing around with Music Memos. <3

Oh, my love the day of reckoning has come
You reap what you sow, boy
You reap what you sow

A loaded gun, 211 but you missed the mark, though
'Cause it hit my heart

Blight, addiction
Like a picture
Predilection (for)
False perfection

You got your kicks, now you have to deal with it
You reap what you sow, boy
You reap what you sow

You had your fun, 211 but you pay the price so
It may cost your life

Your fixation
Is my vexation
Ego inflation
Love deprivation

You had your fun, 211 but you pay the price so
it may cost your life

You got your kicks, now you have to live with it
You reap what you sow, boy
You reap what you sow




Lyrics & music - Sarah Cowart 2016

The careless hunter shot blindly into the brush
Where a poor man's plunder lay gilded by the sun
He coveted his treasure in the heat of the noontide flush

But the gold lost its luster in the silver-stained moonlight
And the thief he stole away into the night

Chorus:
He will not stay
So here I lay
My home, my grave
No stone shall say my name

The smoke grew in the distance and glowed in the color of blood
The shroud of delusion consumed by the flaming touch
But tears could not extinguish the stinging pain of love

And her eyes lost their luster in the haze of the smoke-filled proof
Burning with the fever of the truth

Chorus Repeat x 2

Luster

Your Girl

A new song with a cool groove :)

Lyrics & music - Sarah Cowart 2019

Oh honey, am I on your mind
Half as much as you are on mine?
You didn't bother to drop me a line
And it drives me crazy wondering why

You're underground
You can't be found 
You're underground

I got a love I can't seem to hide
Longs to be your only desire
But how to keep you satisfied?
Whatever you're thinking
You're keeping it inside

Underground
Deep down
It's underground

I'll back away, give this some space
Everything I want to say will stay ---

Underground
I won't make a sound
I'll be underground

Underground

Lie Detector

Opals, Rubies, & Tourmaline

Afterthought

Valleys

Black Widow

Note: It's said there's no use crying over spilled milk, but I have to thank a dropped jug of milk in the Wal-mart parking lot & a woman's timely phrase to thank for the inspiration for this song.

Lyrics:

I'm standing still with my back to the evening sun,
and thoughts of you inside my head.

You walk on by, I have fallen a step behind (and I'm)
tripping over all the words you said.

Chorus 1:

I thought you made me happy
That love was where it's at
And I thought forever, so much for that

The tides of fate along with the choices we make,
pave the highways of our lives.

But I can't say why you thought it was better,
that you go your way and I go mine.

Chorus 2:

I believed you when you told me
That love was where it's at
I thought you'd remember, so much for that

Bridge:

I'm not the first, and I probably won't be the last
To be the one left in your past...

Chorus 1 repeat 

So Much For That

A romantic little diddy I wrote & recorded a couple of years ago.  

Lyrics:

No matter how long this old river runs, making its way to the sea;

I know all the longer my love will go on, and yours will too for me.

Love isn't a flood or a wild raging water, that takes everything it 
can reach

Love is a calm, an unbreakable shelter that gives life and sets
the heart free. 


Chorus:

Honey I see, you do that for me
After all of this time, you're the one I need
In a world so cold and so full of greed
You give me your love, you do that for me.

We've been beat down and we've been let down, and everything 
in between;

Still your love as strong as a mountain raises me up to touch
my dreams. 

Chorus repeat



You Do That For Me

I'm a singer/songwriter from Louisiana.  I play a Taylor, a semi-hollowbody Epiphone and piano. All songs are originals unless otherwise noted. <3 

Sarah Cowart

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