Set the Roses on the table

Burning out

Best Song I've Ever Written

Never Done Anything  FAWM 2025 13

[Verse]
I've been thinking about the words you said
They don't add up to the truth
I'm not sure who you think you're fooling
Or what you try so hard to prove

[Chorus]
Please tell me now
Why must you act so tough?
Why are you so proud?
Is the weight of time still not enough?

[Verse]
Things are never what they used to be
It doesn't matter how you try
I've seen a side of you I can't unsee
But I don't want to seem unkind

[Chorus]
Who's sorry now
You should take your own advice
You need to figure out
Why you're always tangled up in lies

[Verse]
Like a shoebox filled with odds and ends
Left behind but not removed
A past you've tried valiantly to defend
But never found the time to lose

[Chorus]
Please tell me now
Why must you act so tough?
Why are you so proud?
Is the weight of time still not enough?

The Weight of Time (Fawm 2025 #9)

Unknown   © 2025

Time to pack up and move on
the need for change grows strong
added to the story of my heart
that's why I need to depart

Don't know where to go next
wherever fate directs
the Earth is mine to roam
everywhere is my home

Wandering      place to place
no house  to call home
embracing the unknown

Alone and being free
some see it with envy
content to be alone
to travel and to roam

Don't know where to go next
wherever fate directs
the Earth is mine to roam
everywhere is my home

Wandering      place to place
no house  to call home
embracing the unknown

Unknown FAWM 2025 14

finish line

Track made for the Melodics Beatmaker Bootcamp 2025 while also doing during FAWM 2025. My spin on a very familiar melody.

Twinkle

 One of the themes that recurs for me in music and in life is that true love is worth the hard work.I wrote this song during February Album Writing Month for Becky Warren's SongSideKick Song Circle. Thank you to Wobbie Wobbit for mixing it for me.

Somewhere Warm Again With Me
Nancy Cunningham

It’s February, and I’m tired of the slushy sidewalks
February,  I’m tired of the bitter cold

Would you go somewhere warm again with me
 Somewhere that you’d still like to see
How long can this last
 I’m almost scared to ask
Could you go somewhere warm again with me

If you wanted, we could both get off our islands
We could thaw out, maybe make something to eat

Would you go somewhere warm again with me
 Somewhere you’d still like to be
How long can this last
Am  I too scared to ask
Could you go somewhere warm again with me

I know I froze you out for a couple seasons
Silent nights, rehashing all my reasons

But would you go somewhere warm again with me
Somewhere where we both still long to be
How long can we last
If we stay too scared to ask
Will you go somewhere warm again with me

In the car or at the table, in the bedroom by and by
Let's find a way, let's turn back on the sun

Would you go somewhere warm again with me?
Would you go somewhere warm 
Could you come somewhere warm again with me?

Somewhere Warm Again With Me

Singer-song writer, acoustic guitar, enchanting voice, Nordic, folky sounds. 
originals and covers.

I write songs with people and on my own.  I love the way a song can light a match and illuminate a story or a feeling or a character. I'm especially drawn to Americana and Country.

I spend every February writing at fawm.org (February Album Writing Month). It's a great place to hang out if you've ever wanted to sing, play, write, compose, listen, or discuss music. You can find me there as nancycunning.

 I've gotten to write with friends in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington Wisconsin, as well as Canada, France, England, Finland, Germany, and Peru.

I'm a songwriter. This is where I post my songs just after I write them.

I am a singer-songwriter, poet and artist from sunny South-Africa.

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