Demo only. Week ending 06/24 0f 2023 Songwriting Group. (Prompt: Heart Beats)

One Pulse One Time (Lyrics by Rick Watson)

(All sounds made with electric bass, voice, looper.)

Two hearts beat
Two gazes meet
Two breaths align
One pulse, One time

Two hands reach
Two tongues beseech 
Two forms entwine
One pulse, One time

One Pulse One Time - Rick Watson

Circe Downfallingly
A loop-based study on obsession.

Music and Lyrics by Rick Watson, Hog Branch Publishing.  January 28, 2024. Demo only.
Week 3 of 2024 Austin Songwriting Group. Prompt: Hard Enough

Lyrics

Don’t fall hard for Circe
who would describe your fate
as downfallingly
sincere
She’s hard enough to grasp
illusive in embrace
and seemingly impossible
to replace

Don’t fall into her eyes or
be enraptured by the lace
as downfallingly
it hits the floor
Be wise enough to pass 
for after one heat of this race
you’ll be impossibly
replaced

Circe has a smile
Circe has a laugh 
Circe has a gift for
Making you an ass 
Circe makes you wild
Circe makes you groan
Turns you into an animal
And then leaves you alone

Don’t fall into her eyes or
be enraptured by the lace
or you’ll be downfallingly
replaced

Circe has a smile
Circe makes you sway 
Circe has a gift to turn
Your laugh into a bray
Circe makes you wild
Circe makes you moan
Turns you into an animal
And then leaves you alone

Circe Downfallingly

words & music by Rick Watson, Hog Branch Publishing, February 9, 2024. Demo only. 2024 Austin Songwriting Group. Prompt: Out Of

Lyrics

at my wit's end & out of rhymes
the cat in my lap is keeping time
kneads it up till the hidden sign 
that says attack in his little mind
that says attack in his little mind 

at my wit's end and out of key
should build a whole new clef for me
in my head love songs sound so sweet
wish you'd heard that & not my bleat  
wish you'd heard that & not my bleat

at my wit's end - out of ideas
no inspiration nor even fears
I'm out of pain joy lust & tears
he's out of food & mews "come here"
he's out of food & mews "come here"

at my wit's end & out of facts
my head is empty - spirit flat
not surprised it's come to that
after you left me with this cat
since you've left me with our cat

I'm out of touch to be exact
at least you left me with the cat
and this is all I'll sing about that
at least you didn't take the cat
at least you didn't take the cat

At Least You Didn't Take The Cat

Love (We're Rolling In It)
Music & lyrics by Rick Watson, Hog Branch Publishing. February 18, 2024. Demo only. 2024 Austin Songwriting Group.

Love (We're Rolling In It)

What’s Going On (Inside My Brain)

Words & Music by Rick Watson			
© Hog Branch Publishing, March 1, 2024
DEMO ONLY.
2024 Austin Songwriter Group. Weekly Prompt: Goin' On

Lyrics

(Verse)
I didn’t mind
not knowing what’s going on
In your mind
Till you'd packed up to run
And now	I find
You’ve moved on far past the line
It’s one more sign
I never know what’s going on inside

(Chorus)
What’s going on inside my brain
I’m out of touch with everything

(Verse)
I can’t find
A train of thought to ride 
I'm in decline
I am crawling back inside 
My head it’s drained
I’ve strayed too close to the grave
It’s strange I find
I can’t recall my own damn name

(Chorus)
What’s going on inside my brain
I’m losing touch with everything

What's Going On (Inside my Brain)

What's Going On (Inside My Brain)

And Now I'm Grateful -- DEMO ONLY
Music & lyrics by Rick Watson
(c) 2024 Hog Branch Publishing 

Austin 2024 Songwriting Group. Prompt: Grateful

And Now I’m Grateful
Words & music by Rick Watson
© 2024 Hog Branch Publishing

Lyrics

I don’t know what was wrong with me
So full of hate & self-pity
Searched all around but all I’d see
Couldn’t fill the void inside of me

Now I’m grateful
Grateful I’m grateful

I wonder was I born that way
Or’d something happen to make me stray
Searched high & low & even prayed
Drank it all in but the pain still stayed

Now I’m grateful
Grateful I’m grateful

Strangers in a basement hall
Said come on back or even call
Day one now & one for all
Got on my knees & began to crawl

And now I’m grateful
Grateful I’m grateful

And Now I'm Grateful

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