fantastic song.  really beautiful.  be great for you to do a little better profesh recording one day

Lovely song, smooth vocals and harmonies, great lyrics.  This unplugged, acoustic version of your song is really nice.  I agree that a professional recording of this would be amazing.

Words of song have lovely sentiment and guitar was beautiful as was the melody. Ed and Beverly

This is a wonderful love song. Your vocals are very distinctive and pleasant, especially when harmonized. Nice work!

Really fantastic music man.  A definite repost.

Another beauty here. Really enjoyed checking out your toons this evening. You have captured the realness of your songs in the recordings. And I love what you do with your voice. Great stuff man.

Such a beautiful song Sean, thank you for sharing it:)) Love it!!

This was one of my earliest songs written for the women who would be my wife.

Bright Eyes (Live)

Bright Eyes (Live) by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

This was the third song I had ever written. I was all of 20 years old. I woke from a dream that was all to real. This dream wouldn’t materialize until decades later. I wrote three songs on my first day. If you listen to them today, you would believe I was looking back. It was the script to my life.

I Set Her Free

I Set Her Free by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

Buy it on BandCamp https://hurdygurdymen.bandcamp.com/track/ruby-monday-good-enough

Ruby Monday (Good Enough)

She was never good enough, for all the roles they handed out in life
She waited oh so patiently, for someone who could finally see her pain

But the author never showed up in her land, at least in no way she could understand
understand for her life

She stood upon her pedestal, eating more though feeling full inside
Confusion is the final state, for all the love we confiscate with lies

And she could never ever turn the page, from years of mother’s sycophantic rage
all the rage she held inside

And the tranquilizers never did the trick, they always left her feeling somewhat sick,
sickened and alone


Friends would call with their advice, of what to do to make things right and new
But they hadn’t lived through what they spoke, their words were simply borrowed quotes and views

And their answers could never quite withstand, all the questions which a heart demands,
 a heart demands to know

Take a stroll along the shore of stillborn lives and metaphors unseen
There you’ll find a horror show of drowning souls that couldn’t let go and be

And they never ever tire of their hands, of building pretty castles in the sand,
for eternity

photo by Sydney Sims

Ruby Monday (Good Enough)

This is one of a handful of songs which came to me complete. I leave them as I received them. I am more an instrument used then a writer.

You're so Confused

You're So Confused by Dave Hanrahan 🌎 Music

***
Я устал от бесконечного бега
Я бегу от себя и пытаюсь понять
Почему в моей душе так много холодного снега
Почему, что нашёл, я успел потерять

Утопая в мерцании звёзд чужих
Я пытаюсь заметить одну
Но в их свете прозрачном я вижу лишь море лжи
Я понимаю, иду ко дну

День за днём я ищу своё лето
Нахожу лишь обломки прошлых побед
Я уже не уверен, что нужно мне это
Но дорога зовёт, я вижу свет

***(google translate)
I was tired of endless running
I'm running from myself and trying to understand
Why is there so much cold snow in my soul
Why, what I found, I managed to lose

I'm drowning in twinkling stars that aren’t mine
I'm trying to spot one
But in their transparent light I see only a sea of lies
I understand, I'm sinking

Day after day I seek my summer
I find only fragments of past victories
I'm not so sure that I need this
But the road is calling, I see the light

20 Years of Silence

Give Me a Hand

Дай Руку / Give Me a Hand

Written about my daughter, Ally, and the pride and joy she brings to my life.

Open Book

Ally

Pictures of you: those lips and those big blue eyes
Falling asleep with a smile that can't be disguised

Boxed memories that I stored away to hide, from myself
Tracing all the dots we never placed in our time and space

Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep
Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep

Back when I was young, I may have seemed one way
But I would always fumble all the words that I tried to say
Trying to play it cool in front of you
That's all I ever really seemed to do
Trying to play it cool in front of you
That's all I ever really seemed to do


Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep
Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep

A decade and a half since we were teens
And you've still got me smiling in my sleep

Words & Music by Sean Parsons © 2020

Smiling in my Sleep

We’ve got, we’ve got, chemistry – Chemistry – We’ve got, we’ve got chemistry – Can’t you see? – Tongue-tied, tongue-tied, that’s how it feels, that’s how it feels – Tongue-tied, tongue-tied – Down-right evil

Chorus:
I was so naïve
I was so young
I was so stupid
You gotta leave me alone
Just leave me alone
Leave me alone

Make-believing, make-believing everything up, everything up - Catching my breath when I run – It’s you I run to and it’s you I run from – Sometimes, sometimes I just don’t care, I don’t care – Sometimes, sometimes I don’t care

Chorus

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Smiling in my Sleep

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