How interesting, your visual of this skeletal structure made from words spoken and things beyond our control.

I really like the pacing of your bridge!  This theme is so interesting - bone, skeleton.  Somewhere I have a verse about something affecting me to the bone, but the skeleton that's a whole other dimension!  Cool.

great title and concept/theme-love this one :)

Love this, Paula!! Your playing has gotten so much more confident, and your story-telling is as vivid as ever! Well done!!

Artwork by @ nyctophiliacmb <3

Lyrics:

I found a pattern on the way I behave,
some kind of trouble that is hard to explain.
My common sense now is starting to decay
cause you're starting to look like what I became.

I guess what's mine now is yours to take
and I pray it won't be a mistake

Cause your voice is my favorite sound, I gotta let it go
and your body on mine is a crime, I can't let it go.
The way you talk goes down my spine to my bones.
All these things we cannot help, now they're my skeleton.

Tell me if it's ok to feel like a hypocrite
knowing that I shouldn't, but I let it begin.
I'm just a fool that never knew how to quit
all these lost causes, hoping that I would win.

But now what's yours will take me to the end
and I will lose myself on the way.

(Chorus)

(I know so damn well, I
know so damn well, I
know so damn well, I...)

In the middle of the night this fire ignites,
if you can't get me off your mind then why should I?
I know so damn well, I still wanna try.
And when you touch my hand, like a neutron star
we're damned to end before we start.
I know so damn well, I still wanna try.
The look in your eyes, I can't let it go...
I know so damn well, now you're my skeleton.

The way you talk goes down my spine to my bones.
All these things we cannot help, now they're my skeleton.

Skeleton (demo)

"Ship To The Shore" (#419, 201122)

Got no gin blanket's gone
Wind so cold water's calm
Prayed for grace don't know how
Threw the compass off the bow

Made up my mind ship to the shore
Ran out of time do that anymore
Throw it all out deadbolt the door
Ain't too proud that's for sure

Anchor's up tide is low
What's my plan hell if I know
Raise that flag load that lead
Burn that oil sun to set

Made up my mind ship to the shore
Ran out of time do that anymore
Throw it all out deadbolt the door
Ain't too proud that's for sure

Cast my face hard and mean
Break the chain nice and clean
Drop this freight light the fuse
No more runnin' nothing to prove

Week 48b - Ship To The Shore (201122)

on another episode of writing songs about TV shows...
I had the initial idea for this song about three weeks ago. I finally sat down and wrote it two weeks ago. And I finished recording it TODAY. FINALLY.

Lyrics:

You'd be surprised 'bout how heavy is the suitcase I brought
despite leaving behind 10 ton of hurt for a long shot.
A chameleon hiding out for its life, took your hand and you took mine.
We were just doing fine but I can't help to be myself back.

'Till I remember I left my ID back home,
I guess that I don't need it to say goodbye in your car.
Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and I'm afraid I won't breathe it in enough.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.

A baby deer learning how to walk in high heels,
I never knew what's like to start with the easiest thing.
Would you collect all the times I said no cause I was scared,
and light them into fireworks, hold me close and turn them into yes?

Oh mon amour, I left my ID back home,
I guess that I don't need it to say goodbye in your car.
Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and if I look at your eyes, I can breathe it in enough.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.

And just like in the movies you say
I've been here all along.
And I would stay with you here
until my days are gone.

'Till I remember I left my past back home,
and it's faster than me, so though it hurts I have to go.
"Don't you forget about me" you sound like paradise
cause for the first time I wanna say it back.

Don't mind me, I'm just hoping my lungs will be cleaner
after one last night in Cartagena.
(Throw my arms to the wind, the soundtrack is your laugh
and I look at your eyes to breathe it in enough)

last night in Cartagena

This is half of a story.  Perhaps I will return to this idea later.

Collide (On the Other Side)

Well you know I saw it coming
Should have never crossed the tracks
But when I’m feeling good
It’s kind of hard to turn back

Well you know I spilled the coffee
On my only crisp white shirt 
But my tank top sure is sexy
Though my sneakers have seen some dirt

Oh I know we will collide
Cause I don’t belong — on the other side

Well you know he had the money
Had a gold watch and black tie
His jokes were stiff but funny
Hard to look him in the eye

Oh I know we will collide
Cause I don’t belong — on the other side

Collide (On The Other Side) - 11:26:20, 10.21 PM

HOPE COMES 
Fiona Morris & Niki Shepherd 2020
VERSE 1
WAIT NOW HOPE COMES
ON THIS NIGHT CHRIST IS BORN
A LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
A NEW DAY DAWNS FOREVERMORE
VERSE 2
HEAVENS HOST REJOICE IN AWE
AS THE KING LEAVES HIS THRONE
ENTERS IN THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR
MERCY FALLS ON OUR EARTHLY HOME

CHORUS
(SINGING)
HALLELUJAH
HALLELUJAH
HALLELUJAH

VERSE 3
LIFT YOUR HEARTS WE WAIT NO MORE  
HE IS HERE THE PROMISED ONE
EMMANUEL FOR ETERNITY
GRACE FOR US IN HIS PERFECT SON 

CHORUS

BRIDGE
JOY OF NATIONS
MIGHTY SAVIOUR
PRECIOUS TREASURE

KING OF HEAVEN
OUR REDEEMER
REIGNS FOREVER

OUR PROVIDER 
GOES BEFORE US
RICH IN MERCY

OUR MESSIAH
CHILD OF PROMISE
PRINCE OF GLORY

VERSE 4
OH WHAT JOY WILL RESOUND
WHEN THAT FINAL CALL GOES OUT
SEE HIM COMING ON THE CLOUDS
LAMB OF GOD IN GLORY NOW

HOPE COMES FI.NIKI - 27:11:20, 12.44 pm

Ship to the shore --

NIKKI DEAN

AMSTERDAM

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020

*Week 49 SAW Prompt: Near or Far*

there once was a queen
lovely as she could be
and she loved her king
more than life itself deeply

then one day the king
in a storm took what he
wanted, breaking the queen
then fled in the night cowardly

lock her heart in a cage of steel
so she might not ever feel

the queen dried her tears and rose
as the bitter east wind began to blow
she steadied herself and compose
to carry on despite her woe

suitors came from near or far
all trying to win her heart
but none of them could heal the scar
one by one, they would part

lock her heart in a cage of steel
so she might not ever feel

and she won't fall again
no she won't love again

and she won't fall again
no she won't love again

there once was a queen

The Heartless Queen

This is the song I don't hear in the background
This is the pressure that's building inside
This is my weakness, my  fear of rejection
The tension that keeps me awake in the night

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the shadow I'm casting out blindly
This is the part I don't want you to see
Here is the darkness I smuggle inside me
the part that I've been hiding even from me

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the conflict that's breaking the pattern
This is that chaos that starts to emerge
This is the change that is trying to happen
The call to a greater more beautiful world

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

Can You Hear It

spoiler alert but the best part of your next relationship will be the start
though you’ll both try and you'll both be good people 
your characters pull us apart
and you can try again, but all the facts will still remain
and your biologies just overpower you
just like they always do

they'll do that thing where they suddenly hate you
you prob-ly won't take it that well
and you'll try to stifle your growing resentment
but they'll still be able to tell - and it'll fail
and it’s partly just because
oh well the sex ain't what it was
and what it was was junkies chasing a fix
just like it always is...

spoiler alert but these here times keep on changing
and this new world is breaking the mold
one day i'm gonna find out that it’s left far me behind now
and i’m blinking here alone in the cold

spoiler alert but life paints caravaggio:
all of the lights and the darks
if i win the game and sail into the sunset
that ending is only the start
and there's nothing i can win
to heal the weeping wound within
because the real battle's lost in the past
just like it always was

but spoiler alert this whole thing's gonna work out
much better than we could have planned
when i let go and i trust in the mystery
it’s then that i’m led by the hand
from struggling to cope
to much more blessed than i'd have hoped
but i’ll forget this once i’ve sung it to you
just like i always do

Spoiler Alert

26. the girl with bad karma.
My first EP "the demos" is out now! https://open.spotify.com/album/5HW6gAvQ3LcAqM16ynT1yx?si=EwKDGTw6TQmxxmFxjCrqcQ

(This Silence Is So) Loud:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dZMZ9pWzo1bmAosxO5WWa?si=mCZc_-GhSJaC8VkQ8jeURA

Like a Kid: https://open.spotify.com/track/3P9DWi9yh66lLQKUoOZgD8?si=HqxH3FICRZuGbyGu6_ijUw

Shaped Like You feat @lossketches :
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ypE55qUIeLFh1ZYX7AbE9?si=TGMWJpTrQmWOF_ppLXF_lQ

Currently writing a song every week on www.songaweek.org

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