Beautiful song and a perfect realization. Magnificent voice. Nice work. Bravo.

A collaboration with Kevin Connelly in the USA, Kevin provided the lyrics, and I set them to music. For FAWM 2024

Photo by Anna Oates

Don't Play House with my Heart (without drums) lyrics by Kevin Connelly

Lyrics:

Out of town but my thoughts are the same
I try to stop it but it’s stuck to my brain
Try to keep it from eating away
But I can’t seem to catch a break

You stayed home
For fear of change
I moved on
But you stayed the same
Sometimes I wonder who’s to blame
But its not my problem anyways

That’s why
You’re turning 18
Think you got it figured out
But you’re 18
All you know is how
To hate your parents
And want to move out
Leave your room looking worse than if you burned it down

It makes sense
It you think about it
But your 18
And all you think about
Is living inside out
While you’re turning the world upside down

Make a difference
By making your bed
You’re too busy
Thinking up in your head
I try my best
To ignore you instead
But I don’t know how long it will last

Cause you’re turning 18
Think you got it figured out
Well you’re 18
All you know is how
To hate your parents
And want to move out
Leave your room looking worse than if you burned it down

It makes sense
It you think about it
But your 18
And all you think about
Is living inside out
While you’re turning the world upside down

I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
I don’t know you anymore
All I know is that you’re

Barely 18
But think you got it figured out
Well you’re 18
All you know is how
To hate your parents
And want to move out
Leave your room looking worse than if you burned it down

It makes sense
It you think about it
But your 18
And all you think about
Is living inside out
While you’re turning the world upside down

18 (Acoustic)

We are pleased to present Ten Thousand Tiny Fingers, a Music Network commission by Bróna McVittie for our February 2024 Tour. Bróna wanted to create something in memoriam of all the innocent civilians killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict, particularly the children. The song is also born of her own experience of conflict growing up in a segregated society during the troubles in Northern Ireland. Speaking to Bróna about the commission, she said the song was born of her own experience of conflict growing up in a segregated society.

The track was recorded at Station House Theatre, Clifden, Co. Galway on 6 February 2024. 
Performed by Niamh Dunne, Bróna McVittie, Cormac Breatnach & Seán Óg Graham and recorded by Donnacha Moynihan.

Ten Thousand Tiny Fingers

10,000 Tiny Fingers - Brona McVittie - Music Network Commission (2024)

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Wolves Pt. 1

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Madi Laughlin - Wolves Pt. 1

Dear Soul,

Love doesn’t have to all make sense, or even make sense at all. It’s love! Let it be… love.

Perhaps it’s time to get out of your head and into your heart. What would happen if you followed your heart for a change? Sure it could end up hurting you, but you’re hurting anyway. And what if it hurts and it’s worth it? 

Maybe if you let love lead, it would take you places you can’t even imagine, because you’ll be a different kind of person. You’ll be guided more by love than by logic.

Be magical dear soul and let love work its magic on you. 

Love, Yourself.

Phenomenal

This is a co-write with Boo Hewerdine and is my interpretation of a very emotional radio interview with a woman who was explaining how it had felt not being able to even hold the hand of her husband as he died, during the first lockdown.

Where Will I Be Without You

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

4.  Ariel

Holding On

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle

And you sang:
"Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you"

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks

For you sing:
"Touch me not
Touch me not
Come back tomorrow
O my heart
O my heart
Shies from the sorrow"

Song To A Siren

You almost certainly already know the “Usual Love Story”: Boy meets girl, they fall in love and live happily ever after. The End.

Maybe you know someone who fits this story. 

An older couple perhaps, childhood sweethearts who married and stayed together through thick and thin. Bought a home and raised a family, and are now ending their days surrounded by happy kids with even happier grand kids. Still holding hands as they walk through the local park, looking at each other with a soft and fulfilling love in their eyes, every kiss they share is just like the first.

“Wow” you might say when you tell others about them “so good to see that true love can exist in this day and age. How wonderful!”

And in that celebration, you might feel a slight twinge of sadness for your own love story. Deep inside you may feel you’re somehow ‘not doing it right’ and have in some way failed at this most basic human thing. You might also feel you were ‘never given the manual’ so can never really understand how this love thing works anyway.

It’s tricky enough this simple human desire - to love and be loved - without having a nagging sense that everyone else knows something you don’t and is doing it better. All the while knowing that what makes the ‘usual love story’ so enthralling is it is so rare! 

And that’s the problem with the usual love story… it’s not actually so ‘usual’. 

Most of us are quietly living our own ‘unusual love story’ and feeling that we’re a little unusual (or weird, or too much, or unloveable) because of it.

“Unusual Lovesongs” is one soul’s musical journey of finding love in the modern age after the ‘usual love story’ ended without a happy ever after. From learning to ‘swipe right’ and trying to love without labels it’s a heartfelt and funny tale of getting it all wrong, wronger and wrongest.

Each song comes with a love letter to the soul about the learning along the way. 

Let’s celebrate our unusual love stories with these unusual love songs.

Phenomenal

Unusual Lovesongs

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