Watch the video: https://youtu.be/BQxfu1zZOQY 
Production: Jag Jago
Lyrics, Vocal : Steph Brown 
Music: Steph Brown, Pete Maccourt
Backing Vocals: Sally Garozzo, Beccy Blaker
Bass: Pete Maccourt
Drums: Chris Gwilt
Guitar: Mike 


Closed Borders

Julie Please, leave 
You know you’re never welcome
You come around to shoot me down 
With an outstretched hand asking for collection

When you’ve borrowed all that you’ve got
You know there will be a cost 
But it comes by too often and you don’t have enough 

Please I let you in, and you win me over, 
You take me on not cause I’m weak but because I’m strong,
I have the patience

When you’ve borrowed all that you’ve got
You know there will be a cost 
But it comes by too often and you don’t have enough 
I just don’t have enough


To spark me up when I need fire
I am doing this all for love
Hush your tongue 
Can’t you be quiet 

Are you ever gonna

Win your prize

Are you ever gonna

Come outta hiding
 
Are you ever gonna

Risk a rush are you ever gonna 

Do it for love

Julie please
I’m on my knees,
Leave 

Please
Come tell me what is the matter?
I’ve never known someone so kind to be so cruel,
How you must have suffered, so suffered for love

Julie Please

Bags packed 
At just under fifteen
Trying to to find a new home wasn’t easy but
I was lucky I found myself a phoebe
Atleast she could treat me 
With the love that I now know I needed
A love that I couldn’t conceive
Till I found worth was a thing
Only I could bring

Nothing needs to be forgiven
Here in my garden, you are safe 
You are who you are 
No hate

No secrets
when a flower opens on the maximum 
You wanna see it, feel it bloom
Waiting too long for the spring to come
Show all of your colour
Bloom

Confidence is like a currency
The more you have the more you get the more you believe
What you have to offer, lovely colors
If you be so lucky to have someone else
Who gives you your worth this is your wealth

Only now have I learned love shouldn’t have to be earned

Bloom

Come with me love I can give you shelter,

With me love I can give you home,

Trust me love I can make it better,

With me dear you wont be alone,

Come to me love , Come tell me your worry

Dreamer’s dreams do cause them pain

Let go my love and lay your head down,

Trust me dear I can ease the strain


Give up the ambition we’re conditioned to desire

Find some stillness, find some peace,

Let go of all the struggle in a world full of trouble

Where we hardly have time

To weep when we need



Come with me love, lets go climb the mountains,

With me love to swim in the seas

Come with me love see life in the journey

Feel the dance in once weary feet


This childish trust in love that I abandoned long ago

Has come to find me, and share its ease,

This freedom that I’ve found in you

A naïve sense of hope, never had to push me

Just fell at our feet

Come With Me

Your eyes close thick with slumber well,
The winter must’ve pulled you under 
Ice cracks, fish jumps
I give you to the river to take you home

Daughter of the water now you are weightless shapeless
And I am a tree, leaves grown from my fingertips
Roots anchor
From my

Phoebe  


Grounded soles dusty boots,
I found you with a story on the soles of your shoes
And you read the lines from my face
Gave me the gift of your mothers graces
And you had on different colored laces

You’d drawn smailey faces on the rubber
You showed me the power of the words of others, 
I told you bout the slumber of my mother 
And the sorrow and how it echoes


Your eyes close thick with slumber well,
The winter must’ve pulled you under 
Ice cracks, fish jumps
I give you to the river to take you home

Daughter of the water now you are weightless shapeless
And I am a tree, leaves grown from my fingertips
Roots anchor
From my

Pheobe

Now I watch lovers as they surrender themselves beneath my branches 
In the shade of my leaves 
The world pulls heavy whilst love rotates beneath my roots

Sometimes it tickles and reminds me that I change
I change with the seasons no matter how still I stand I am daughter of this world and I will make breath when I meet death I’m sure your fingers will come
To collect me 
And then I’ll echo, just like you echo.

Phoebes Song

Up up over the sea far away 
Don’t follow me 
You’ve been dark and moody for days
I’ll leave you to it

Separate fluctuate up down across
 no map to guide us when we’re lost 
Deduce the course, commit to the road 
and I hope to see you dear, back at home cause

I feel you near me 
I hear you on the wind 

 I meet you in cycles in cycles
Round we go 
Round we go 
And then distance 
Without warning 
How are we to know if we’ll make it back home?

Feel You Near

Under My feathers, trying to find my way back to you
Just like a ghost with no intention of leaving 
I’m in the water, come in the water where there are no rules 
I am a child and just like a child who knows no school

You’re alone in this process, just like all of us 

Oh no oh no oh why oh me what did I do?
Why are you leaving?
I woke up from a bad dream and I became a woman at barely eleven

All the while the landscape was as changeable like 
The northern lights whoa
Grownups longingly advise me not to grow up to soon 
What to do? Life sort of happens .

Come in the water, I’m in the water where there are no rules 
I am a child just like a child who knows no school 
You’re alone in this process just like all of us 

While they where listening we were learning to swim

Learn In The Water

Driving away from the city, driving north from the sea
Squashed in the back with my best friends
We are checking in to Cherry Tree

We need what we need
No need to feel guilty 


Making our way through the country
where the mud gets stuck to our boots
The forest is filled with laughter
As I loose my shoes

We need what we need
No need to feel guilty 

Doing our best for some well deserved rest
Taking a picture so that we can look back
On the happiest of our memories

I miss the sound
Of the simple life
A silence that
Is so rare to us

Singing along to some new songs
checking out of Cherry Tree.

Cherry Tree

Pleased to see you again
It’s been a long time since we were reunited
Your stony shores are like an old friend 
And I return

Every year,
To find myself, that little bit older
To find you
Genova, You always have your power

A dirty city caught between,
32 km of mountains and sea
I snake your streets I know your secrets
And I return,

Every year,
To find myself, that little bit older
To find you
Genova, You always have your power

Your glory days are gone
More battle lost than won
You’re in my every song 
To me you are a power

Genova

When the time comes, I’ll be by the river dreaming up the night 
I dream down the sun 
When I need to sail open water 
Take me to the river to keep my calm,

When I’m made out of glass I’ll shatter if you drop me 
Don’t disturb the quiet
When any little question, any little ask
Can feel like a riot

Build me a boat carry the weight of me 
Fast like a wind my darling 
Fast like a wind my baby is 
Built strong to take me on 
Fast like a wind, fast like a wind 

When we woke, I was frightened by your features 
Scared of your crude and clumsy words 
With no one to tell me if it’s alright 
To love something out of plain sight
 
When I’m made out of glass 
You can see right through me 
I hide like a child 
I’m under the covers with my eyes and ears covered

Boat Song

"Steph Brown's intense songwriting has a rare intimacy, with each note seeming to be hewn from her own life." - Clash Magazine - 2019

Brighton based songstress Steph Brown is gearing up for her enchanting new single, Feel You Near, due for release on 19th April 2019.

Steph, formally known as Della Lupa, began hosting open mics at 16 and, such was her own untapped talent, was encouraged by her contemporaries to join them in their musical endeavours. 

Creating a style unique to her own life experiences, Steph has cultivated an earnest, cathartic sound packed full of emotion and biographical lyrics.

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