One of the penalties of befriending a musician is the high likelihood that your stories will be immortalized in song. This song is for my friend; she recently threw caution to the wind and the results were inspirational.

Fall - Demo

Some songs are just too sultry for their own good ... even when performed on a uke.

Baby I'm A Fool (Melody Gardot - cover)

The Space Between - Demo

Ever been a secret admirer? Me neither. Thought it might be a fun pair of shoes to try on, though.

LYRICS
I wish I could write you a love letter
I wish I could speak my mind
But every time I try words seem to fail
They seem to fall between the lines
And every dusty memory that sticks between my teeth
Reminds me of the lips I’d kiss; the lips I long to keep

I wish I could hear you say
All the things that I dream you’d think
If only I’d the courage to admit to
All the wishes I have made
And every moment of discovery that falls between our feet
Reminds me of the breath I hold whenever our eyes meet

I wish that you could hear me
Singing songs I cannot say
I’d offer every word to you
If they weren’t standing in my way
If only I could look to you and
Open up and say…

I wish I could keep you near
I wish I could touch your cheek
I wish I could hold you close
I wish you were mine alone


I Wish

LYRICS

Something I’ve come to realize
Trying to define wrong and right
Is that lines come in so many thicknesses these days
For every blessing in disguise
There’s a heartbreak hanging in the wings
Just waiting for your fences to fall away

So what’s the point in trying
If the hurt is everywhere
Just waiting for its chance to take the stage
Take away your cares

Dressed in watercolour
Drawn in hazy lines
Wrong and right seem to fill the scene
But every blessing in disguise
In vivid hues they seem to shine
They cast their shadows on darker times

So here’s the point in trying
It’s the moments hanging in the air
They’re yours for the taking
And they come in a thousand shades of grey

Something I’ve come to realise
Standing between wrong and right
Is that anyone can paint your grey away.

Shades Of Grey

LYRICS
The night is darker now that it's fallen around me
The plot obscured now that its pages are torn right in front of me
And why should I deny
All the things that I have come to know
And how can I go on
Just stuttering and muttering my way by

How bittersweet is the moment when you realize
That your focus has been misplaced all this time
So fly from these skies
The only choice left is to test these wings
And if I should happen to die
Before I wake give my regards to Broadway

But who am I
To suggest anything
Just another soul
Lost in the ranks
I can't go on
Living your lies
If this is all
That can become of mine

How bittersweet is the moment when you realize
You were wrong all this time

Broadway

Thanks to Raha Javanfar for the fabulous violin work.

LYRICS
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Don’t mind me staring
It’s not that I care too much
Or that I see you seeing me
It’s just that you caught me
Caught in a moment
And I was lost in the space in between

CHORUS
In the space between
Where we can be we
And we can hold on to the brightness we’ve seen
In the space between
Where nothing else matters
And no one is watching except you and me

What does it matter
If the chaos outside
Comes crashing over
The walls we’ve contrived
In here we’re protected
In a blanked of stillness
In here we retreat; in here we can hide

CHORUS

BRIDGE
If I find you there will you meet my eye?
If I hold you there can we stop time?

CHORUS

The Space Between

Rough and tumble, warts and all. 

Lyrics - 

Why do I sympathize
Then stand upon your beaches 
Watch the waves break in your eyes
High and dry
Transfixed by the sky
Watching birds meander by
As your heart capsizes

Why can't I 
Wade a few feet further
Let the waves take my toes
Let the birds fly by
Who am I to feel justified 
By the time spent reaching out
For the nothing you provided

*
Here we go again
Playing our game of pretend
Here we go again
Kicking up sand we made with our sins
Here we go again
In the dustbowl of all the things we thought 
We might have been

This is why I don't cry my own woe beaten tide
To carry me away to the life I left untried
Why I don't break 
for the task taste subsided 
So long ago that how it goes anybody knows

*


Here We Go Again - Draft

First single released by Toronto singer-songwriter Stacey Dowswell on July 26, 2016. Get it now on iTunes and Bandcamp, or stream it from all the usual places.

A humid piece of pop-folk awesome that makes big use of texture and toms. Recorded over an unseasonably warm January weekend, Winter is Stacey Dowswell's first formally-released single.

GET IT ON
Bandcamp:  https://staceydowswell.bandcamp.com/t...
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/yE9Bdb?i=1131403168

Also available where fine music is streamed.

SONG CREDITS
Produced and recorded by Jeff D. Elliott in Toronto, Canada. 
Performances by Stacey Dowswell and Jeff D. Elliott.


LYRICS
Across a frozen field 
There’s a forest wreathed in snow 
It burned in autumn fire 
Now lost in winter’s cloak 

But summer heat beats on 
In the steam of every breath 
That mingles in the spaces 
Where both our minds had met 

So take my hand 
And we will go 
Make tracks together 
In the fallen snow 

And where we tread will grow 
Though frost may find the seeds we sow 
The light that lights your face 
Denies December cold 

Wind plants our cheeks with roses 
Kisses lips that words have laced 
Winter may preserve the darkness 
But our will can sustain 

So take my hand 
And we will go 
Make tracks together 
In the fallen snow 

Across a frozen field 
There’s a forest wreathed in snow 
It burned in autumn fire 
Now lost in winter…

Winter

Stacey Dowswell is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter whose flexible vocal stylings give way to an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, and country. Born and bred on and off stages in Sarnia, Ontario, she wears her dramatic flair and many influences on her sleeve; introspective lyrics and non-standard tunings support a voice that soars or soothes as the moment requires. After a 14 year hiatus to set her roots, Stacey has re-emerged to grace Toronto's smaller stages with her unique take on the world around her, one melody at a time.

Stacey Dowswell

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