SONGCATCHER
Copyright 2024 Rinaldo/O'Brien
Music by Whitman Rinaldo; Lyrics by Alex O’Brien 
All Rights Reserved

Whitman Rinaldo: vocals, electric guitar, mixing/mastering
Moe Howard: piano
Chris Fuller: bass

She ran to the river
To try and catch a song
When she got to the river
A voice asked her what was wrong

So she climbed up a mountain
She hoped a song was waiting there
When she climbed up the mountain
A voice whispered in the air

Inspiration is magic
It’s a gift on a breeze
No, don’t worry, you can’t hurry
It will come when your mind is free

So she sat in the silence
No thoughts of gold or fame
When she found her silence
A choir of angels came

Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah

She was met by a choir of angels
Singing her heavenly songs
Healing and making her strong

Inspiration is magic
It’s a gift on a breeze
No, don’t worry, you can’t hurry
It will come when your mind is free
It will come when your mind is free
It will come when your mind is free

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: July 17, 2024

Songcatcher

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

New tracks tagged #themuses