Riches to Rags was Judges Award winner for Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge Nov 2014.  
The challenge is to select a piece of artwork on display at View Two Gallery Liverpool and write a song to accompany/express the artwork.  

This song will be on free download for 3 months.  Enjoy. 
 
RICHES TO RAGS (Lyrics)
 Do you know I used to be a Queen?
I followed you here
Enticed and entranced by your need
But I know I’m never going to be your Queen
Though dress in golden seams
I’m left alone with my dreams

And I gave my colours for you
Gave my colours for you…

Honey, how I ache to be your queen
Oh invisible me
Now we’re strangers its clear that I 
Served a purpose it seems
Left to dote in the breeze
Carry all that I’ve seen

And It’s alright
I know how you feel
I can’t keep you here
You’re not meant for me

And we used to dance and you’d hold me so firmly
 I’d fly like a bird
And you’d touch me so softly I’d slip through your arms 
Like the breath that you drew
When you kissed me
Unhooked me from all that I knew

Now all I know is you
Now all I know is you…

Darling I could never never be your queen
The world worn weary
This Goddess has dignity
And darling I rage like the sea
You took all that I had
From riches to rags

Not sure I exist
Chameleons and twists
Laments of lives gone by
I float between two skies
I’ve been chasing ghosts 
Since you caressed my throat
Spinning mirrors and smoke 
I tenderly choke

And we used to dance and you’d spin me so firmly I’d fly like a bird
And you’d touch me so softly I’d slip through your arms 
Like the breath that you drew
When you kissed me
Unhooked me from all that I knew

Such a beauty, you told me I shone like a charm
These red lips you could kiss 
That remind you of sunsets so bold
So unspoiled, I unfold,  you took me from all that I knew

You unhooked me from all that I knew
Yeah you took me from all that I knew
Yeah you took me from all that I knew
And all that I wanted was you
Now all that I’m haunting is you

© 2014.  Jo Bywater.

JO BYWATER - Riches to Rags

Singapore where my heart belongs
Singapore there's no place like home
Wherever I may be you'll always be my favorite song
I am proud to be
From Singapore

Sometimes when it is dark and it's cold
And I'm faraway feeling alone
Missing someone to hold me close
Dreaming of the place I love
	
Singapore where my heart belongs
Singapore there's no place like home
Wherever I may be you'll always be my favorite song
I am proud to be
From Singapore  

Brilliant sunsets the warm summer breeze
Grandma’s cooking the tall mango trees
My own diamond surrounded by sea
Where I fell and found my way

CHORUS

Our parents stories made history  
Built this city with every dream
Now it’s our turn to reach for the stars
Together hand in hand we’ll shine

CHORUS

Where My Heart Belongs (demo) By Eunice Png 方恩沁

(lyrics below) Thank you The Body Shop Malaysia for the Fuji Green Tea products and for letting me do such a fun review! I wrote this based on how the products smelled, and what kind of feeling it evoked(I started this from scratch. None of the lyrics/melodies had been written before I got the products).
Let me know what you think of my first "product review", and if I should do this more often! 
Thanks for watching! 

-Amrita

Lyrics: 

Leaves are green again
And I can feel spring
Blowing in the wind
Blowing in the wind

Soft is the sound of winter 
Fading into gold
Goodbye, December
Hello flowers
Hello world

So whisper I love you into my ear
Tell me your secrets
And I'll keep them safe, my dear

It's like a first-time-feeling
That my heart is beating 
For you

Breathe in, breathe out
Just stay calm
Life's too fast
Just slow down

It'll be alright, it'll be alright
It'll be alright, it'll be alright

Hello World / The Body Shop Song (original)

Isabel Lim - Pretty Talk

As soon as I saw this picture, I was inspired to write a song about vanity, and my view on how some women emphasise more on external, skin-deep beauty.
Hope you enjoy the song! (:
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LYRICS:
Batting false eyelashes at me
Saying how sorry she has been
I’m not one to pacify
Nothing you can clarify
Paint your words with an overcoat
Sycophantic overload
I don’t care for your flattery
You’re injected with jealousy
You crave for perfection
But you don’t know what it takes to be
Beautiful on the inside
You conform to society
‘Cos only
Pretty girls do the pretty talk (x2)
Ooh ooh ooh
What you see isn't what you feel
An illusion of what is real
Feed your plastic emptiness
You starve your happiness
Stain your locks all fiery red
Let your heart rule over your head
Don’t tell me how blue you are
Waterfall mascara
You crave for perfection
But you don’t know what it takes to be
Beautiful on the inside
You conform to society
‘Cos only
Pretty girls do the pretty talk (x2)
Ooh ooh ooh
‘Cos we girls
Don’t care for the pretty talk (x2)
Ooh ooh ooh


Winner 2015 Audience Favourite Award: Isabel Lim - Pretty Talk

Acoustic cover of Still Into You originally by Paramore.

Been wanting to do this for awhile! Apologies for shit sounding guitar and mix

Still Into You (Cover)

Blood and Faeces (demo)

Cover of Dawn Wong's single - Perfect Two (Stuck Like Glue)
Because I can't get it out of my head...

Perfect Two (stuck like glue) cover

Recorded, arranged, mix and mastered by myself, for Singapore Life Church. 
Full music video link here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru4PeK4PgzA&ab_channel=SethEng

Choir parts and Violin arrangement done by Isabel Lim(@isabellimmusic) 
Violin: Jessica Chen (IG: @jessicachen.music)
Lead Vocalists: Wei En (IG: @weiencountertenor) and Joshua Chan(IG: @size.music) 
Electric Guitar: Jasper
Bass: Cheng
Backing Vocals: Isabel, Ernest, Weiling, Huilun, Yiai, Size

I Will Follow Him (SLC Cover)

Performed live.
Piano: Dora
Strings: Myself (Post-produced)
Vocals: Cherry

Mixed by yours truly.

Adele - All I Ask (Cover)

Arranged and layered instruments on top of an original written by Isabel Lim (IG: @isabellimmusic) for a Songwriting Competition.

Mixed and mastered by myself.

有一些人 (Isabellimmusic Original)

Isabel has been singing and playing the piano since the age of 3. She grew up learning the classical piano, and later on had Distinctions in Rockschool's Grade 5 Band Based Keys, and in Trinity Rock & Pop's Grade 8 Keyboard.

Isabel graduated in 2016 with a BA(Hons) in Music at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), where she gigged around Liverpool with her band, The Green Tea band @thegreenteaband. Their band has played on a broadcast of Liverpool's BayTV and at the Threshold Festival 2016. 

Prior to studying for her degree, she obtained a Diploma in Music & Audio Technology (DMAT) from Singapore Polytechnic, then worked as an IT music instructor teaching primary and secondary school students basic software production and also taught leisure piano at an international school in Singapore.

Isabel also aspires to be a songwriter for someone famous, or for the nation.

With numerous choral experiences since young, she also hopes to be a professional backup vocalist. In Singapore Polytechnic, she was the Student Conductor in Choir, and Librarian for the newly-formed acappella singing group Vocal Talents.

Isabel has emerged among the top 3 in Shure's online competition (vocal cover) in April 2010, and was a recipient of SP's Music & Arts Scholarship 2011.

You can stalk her other account @smileypizza2 and her band @thegreenteaband

Perfect Two (stuck like glue) cover

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