My entry for r/songaweek on week 22. Had to make a song about ducks, so I put a lot of duck in this.

Chilling with the ducks

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Week 24 - Song A Week 2025
"Like We Did Before"

i am going home
i am going home
thought i knew the way
i wanted to go

i thought i could find
some kinda peace of mind
but i found that i was still
walking alone

now i don't which way to turn
i don't know if i'll freeze or burn
but i know i'll find my way out
somehow

i don't know if i'll sink or swim
i don't know if i'll go out or in
all i know is that i will find my way
somehow

i can feel you near
like you're just around somewhere
just beyond my line of sight
you and i 

i don't know who you are
but i know you're my north star
and i cannot wait to see
the day we meet again

and i don't know how
and i don't know when
but i know i'll see you
again

i don't know how or when
i'll see you again, my friend
we'll figure it out
like we did before

Like We Did Before

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
"Done with All the Noise"

Song A Week - Week 25
Recorded at Imago Dei Village in Belle Plaine, WI, June 27, 2025
Photo cred: Erin Wolf - country roads in Belle Plaine, WI

i'm trying to find 
someone to love
someone to have
someone to hold

and it's been so long
should i just pack it in
or do i give it 
one last fighting chance

'cuz i can't see
the path before me
don't got nobody
to call home

so i'll just wander
send this highway
in the hope that someday
might catch my lucky break

everyone keeps saying
to just keep waiting
and some day it will happen
when i least expect

how long is long
ain't i been patient
oh these bull stories
that you keep feeding me

i can't tell 
how many times i've been reassured
yet i assure you
i understood every word

oh these empty platitudes
those toxic attitudes
gotta be kidding you
that you're trying to fool me

oh, yeah you're fooling me

and i'm not gonna be patient
might just taste it
all this sour bitterness, all this saltiness
tears i've cried that got no place to run

and i am trying 
to hold you and all your lies
i'm done trying, i'm not running
or searching to find

i think i'll call it a day
might even call it a night
don't you worry, now y'all,
i'm gonna be alright

let's just call it what it is
let's just call the noise
i'm done with all the games
done with all the noise

Done with All the Noise

Come Around

Copyright 2025 Erin Wolf
Song A Week - Week 28

Photo: A cross against the sunset reflecting off of Long Lake in Belle Plaine, WI, June 2025

that moment when a song that was never meant to be shared has grown to become a beloved staple by many over the course of nearly 15 years...

--

fifteen years, o my Lord
fifteen years, o my Lord
and i talked to You about the seasons
woah, i sang to You about the seasons

never saw all that was coming
didn’t know if they would hear or listen
didn’t know we’d be frozen in time
didn’t know, didn’t know we would stand the test of time

as we sang, “O God, You are holy”
O God, my God, You are holy
O God, my God, You are holy

and that’s what we sang, 
O God, You are holy

O God, You Are Holy

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Song A Week - Week 28

Photo: Country roads in North-central(ish), WI, June 2025

Written & recorded at St. John's Episcopal Church, New London, WI, July 19, 2025

--

my love, my heart
crumbling apart
as I drive down back 29

driving farther away
from the memories
and everything that we had been building back

my love, my heart
i can’t stand to part
with everything, all the dreams we had

and you, my world
i had given all
then i found you gave it back

my love, my heart
crumbling apart
caught up in a tilt-a-whirl

i thought it would be 
something new, something real
then i found i was left out in the dark

you never saw
past all the things that
you found were obstacles in the path

and instead of saying anything
you decided nothing
was good enough to stay

ay yay
ay yay
good enough to stay

but, my love, my heart
i will find a way through
i will find the light to get me through
these all

second heart will not break down
forever, won’t back down never
ever will fully be broken down

might take me, but i’ll rebound
and return
return

my love, my heart
they may have broken apart
but i know how to put the pieces back

My Love, My Heart

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
"I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here"

Song A Week - Week 32

Photo from & Song recorded in Random Lake, WI, August 2025

rain is comin' 
mosquitos biting
cicadas singing in the night
wind is hummin' 
thunder growling
i can't sleep for it all

'cuz i don't know
what i'm doing here
no, i don't know 
what i'm doing here

on the porch just sitting
waiting on somethin'
trying to figure it all out
lightning bugs are gigglin'
the dogs are howling
and the children running 'round 'til the street lights come on

i still don't know 
why i'm here
no, I still don't know 
what i'm doing here

oooh the tales and stories
coming down along the way
i don't know where we're going now
i guess we'll face the day either way

hot summer nights
dew drops ringing
every footstep's echoing
do i stay or do i
run away
try to find what it is i'm doing here

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Week 37 - Song A Week
Photo: Campfire in southeast Wisconsin, September 2024

lay down your head now
as we listen to nighttime sounds
cicadas calling 
calling us home
as we come into 
September

oh ooh
 
the rains they’ll come rushing in 
like a hurricane off the coast
they won’t tear down, won’t destroy
but they’ll still bring the floods and 
i hope my name ain’t raked through the mud

panic attacks come rushing in 
like a force to be reckoned with
but the danger’s passed
past these dead ends
no danger ahead

i don’t know 
where i’ll go from here
i don’t know 
where i’ll go from here
where i’ll go from here 

(interlude)

heart fades 
beats its last
breathing in 
breathing out

she seems proud to be yours
for you to be hers

so lay down
lay down

September

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Week 37 - Song A Week
"The Devil's Den"

Song note: A brief and intentionally vague  amalgamation of stories from survivors of narcissistic abuse. The song itself is incomplete, and I'm not sure if I'll work to "finish" it in a nice and tidy way or if I'll leave it as is...

Photo credit: East side of "Devil's Den" at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania (circa 1890s) courtesy of www.nps.gov (Public Domain)

--

crawled out from a hole
dug by someone else
don’t even know what compelled me  
to take a dip on in
i danced with the devil
just to heal my sin
seems there’s no escaping
the likes of him

i thought that i had made 
my great escape
but he is patient and
he can wait
he planted a virus
to consume my mind
then he sat back on his throne and said,
“it’s a matter of time”

oh, here we go
here we go again
here we go down to 
the devil’s den
the devil’s den

now i had been to church as a child
where they taught me to pray
didn’t know that it would twist and turn
on me someday
they taught me to take attention
from a lovely man
little did i know he was working
for the Underhand

oh, here we go
here we go again
said here we go
here we go again

The Devil's Den

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Week 37 - Song A Week
"Your Time to Go"
Photo credit: The Eldest Youngling snuggling a kitten at a farm in northeast Wisconsin, August 2025

-an ode to the eldest Youngling as we begin to prepare for the first steps into adulthood. and yes, I hurt my own feelings writing and singing this one, yet I couldn't be prouder of J if I tried... please excuse the mess-

--

hard to believe it's been so long now
and it's almost time for you to
take your next step out in the world
as you're grown

over all these years
throughs the joys and the fears
we've come through barricades
standing on the edge of a next parade

and we'll go with you
yes, we'll go with you
no matter where lift leads you
we'll be right behind you,
my love
we'll stay
we'll stay

oh my child,
the time's almost here
when we'll scream, and we'll cry, and we'll cheer
'cuz we know you have given your all and your best

it's been the greatest honor of our lives
to watch you grow right in front of our eyes
and to call you my child and i'm your mother
oh, couldn't have asked for better

and we'll go with you
yes, we'll go with you
no matter what life leads you through
we'll be there with you

and know you'll go places we never dreamed of
and you'll see those you've never met yet
and you'll change things for the better
'cuz that's who you are

and the tears falling down
are of pride and 
all because you have been one of the greatest
gifts of all

and i'm proud of who you're becoming
and i know you've got more to go
oh, i love you, and i'll be with you
no matter where you go
so here you go

Your Time To Go

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