Simone White & Brent Arnold, Fortunately Gone (Breeders cover)

From the Simone White album, Silver Silver (Honest Jon's 2012)

Flowers In May
by Simone White

here's what I learned when you went away
the jacaranda tree flowers in may
jasmine blooms after the rain
4am hear the first plane

ride a bike along the beach the end of the day
the sun descends in red and slowly fades
think of all the things I want to say 
too late

when will I forget I don't know
I want to keep you here inside me to remind me that everything unfolds
one day we'll see

hang a white dress on a line in the sun
do the laundry and the dishes sweep the kitchen
save the bees and baby birds that fall from the trees
look there's one

all night in spring the mockingbird sings
stay up till dawn and sleep all day long
I can feel you with me every moment
even though you're very gone

when will I forget I don't know
I want to keep you here inside me to remind me that everything unfolds
one day we'll see

hang a white dress on a line in the sun
save the bees and baby birds that fall from the trees
clean the glasses line them up in a row
I won't let you go

here's what I learned when you went away
the jacaranda tree flowers in may
jasmine blooms after the rain
4am hear the first plane

Flowers In May

Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

for my last tour in Spain I learned Roses Are Not Red in Spanish. (friend Adriana Molina and a Spanish fan(sorry I forgot who) helped translate the original, written by Frank Bango and Richy Vesecky. English recording is on my album I Am The Man)

Simone White: Las Rosas No Son Rojas

Japanese translation of Never Be That Tough. English original from the Simone White album Silver Silver, Honest Jons (2012). Never Be That Tough written by Simone White and Samuel Bing. Translation by Yoko Toriumi.

Ai No Yukue 

sorewa samui
fuyu no koto
anata no
nukumori ga atta
dakedo
haruga kite
nanika kawatte iku kigasuru
subete ga umaku iku to
wakatte ita noni
ai no yukue
dakara
ai ni se o mukenai de
anata wa tsuyoku nai

anata o mirutabi
omoi dasuno
do nimo naranai
itsumo itsumademo
kurikaesu omoi

ai ni se o mukenai de
ai wa keshite mitasarenai

itsuka kigatsuku
kitto kondokoso
subete o ushinaukamo shirenai
dakedo sorede ii noyo

ai ni se o mukenai de
anata wa tsuyoku nai

Ai No Yukue

Simone White: Flowers In May (Zaptra remix)

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https://soundcloud.com/zaptra

Flowers In May(Zaptra Remix)

Simone White duet with Sean Bonnette of The Andrew Jackson Jihad. Written by Sean Bonnette. Released as a B side on Honest Jon's, Simone White 45 single of The American War, Aug 2007. Recorded by Teague Cullen.

Black Dog (Simone White & Sean Bonnette)

Holly Jolly Hollywood by The Wedding Present (with Simone White)


The Wedding Present: Holly Jolly Hollywood (with Simone White)

Tiny Drop by Simone White
Featuring Andrew Bird on violin,  Chris Dave on drums and Kaveh Rastegar on bass. 
Produced and co-written by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market.
Video directed by Ronan MacRory
https://youtu.be/ZiqZeRDao2k
download track- https://simonewhite1.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-drop-feat-andrew-bird

Here's a new song, Tiny Drop! It premiered at UN World Oceans Day 2018. The song is anti-war. The video is about plastic pollution in the ocean. We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every small action you make affects the whole. Everything you vibrate contributes, however small and insignificant you feel, it makes a difference. Vote. Speak truth. Allow yourself to love and be loved. Carry a reusable jar around instead of another effin to-go cup.

Tiny Drop

how much will it cost
a lot a lot
the way the wind blows around you
how the sky felt above you
the beauty that you lost
a lot a lot
for all the wars you fought
you are a tiny drop tiny drop
you are a tiny drop tiny drop

Tiny Drop

Simone White - vocal
Jebin Bruni - piano 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP), Pete Min (Carpet Frog Music / ASCAP)and Jebin Bruni (Vox Angelica Music / BMI)

Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Alex Mata

Letter To The Last Generation (demo)

Simone White - vocal
Jebin Bruni - piano 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP)

Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Paulette Terry

Shadow Pass

Simone White - guitar and vocal
Jebin Bruni - synths, piano 
Abe Rounds - drums 
Kaveh Rastegar - bass 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP)

Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Alex Mata

Rain

Simone White - vocal
Kaveh Rastegar - bass 
Pete Min - guitar 
Andrew Bird - violin 
Chris Dave - drums 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP)and Pete Min (Carpet Frog Music / ASCAP)

Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Alex Mata

Harvest

Genuine Fake

Simone White - vocal
Jebin Bruni - synths, piano 
Abe Rounds - drums 
Kaveh Rastegar - bass 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP)

Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Alex Mata

So It Goes

Simone White - vocal
Kaveh Rastegar - bass 
Pete Min - guitar 
Larry Goldings - synths 
Jamire Williams - drums 

Written by Simone White (Domino Publishing / ASCAP)and Pete Min (Carpet Frog Music / ASCAP)
Produced and engineered by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles.
Mastering by Jim Wilson

Artwork design by Alex Mata

This Is All You Felt

Simone White cover of Judee Sill recorded especially for RTVE - RNE - Radio 3 in Spain, 500th edition of Islas de Robinson

Simone White: The Kiss (Judee Sill cover)

Newly recorded version of the Beep Beep Song, featured in the 2019 Audi campaign- Disintegration: The Slowest Art We've Ever Built. 
Watch here: youtu.be/4PYXYI6NtfI

The Beep Beep Song
by Simone White

beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
go the horns in the cars in the street
we walked away from the lover's leap
opposite directions
synchronized feet

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
for the time it takes a heart to mend a break
how many moons are reflected in the lake
can you wait forever if time is all it takes

despite all the warnings
I landed like
a fallen star
in your arms

beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
goes my heart on the side of my sleeve
whispering something I can hardly believe
"let me take the lead
'cause love is all we need"

released August 2, 2019
Written and performed by Simone White.
Vocal and guitar recorded by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market.
Arrangement by Eric Heiberg.
Video animated and directed by Elsa Grayson
Single art design by Alex Mata

The Beep Beep Song (2019)

In The Water Where The City Ends, from the Simone White album Silver Silver (Honest Jon's 2012)

In The Water Where The City Ends

from the album Yakiimo (Honest Jon's 2009, on the digital version only)

Freight Train
by Elizabeth Cotten with lyric changes by Simone White

freight train freight train
going so fast
freight train freight train
going so fast
please don't tell what train I'm on
so they won't know where I'm gone

when I'm dead and in my grave
no more whiskey will I crave
place the bottle on my head and feet
tell em all I've gone to sleep

when I'm dead lord bury me deep
underneath that old apple tree
I'll be in the fruit you eat
and it will taste mighty sweet


Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)

"Simone White has a voice like ether. It's sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world where nothing seems real." - NPR 
Here are some of my songs that you might not find elsewhere (B-sides, demos, remix, live, guest vocalist)  xo

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