Songbird

This is the Youtube video that my old duo partner and I recorded with the help of some lovely students at the Lismore Conservatorium.
This is a Christina McVie (Fleetwood Mac) original - covered by Eva Cassidy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK6iwL7NIgw

Hope you like it :)

Don't say it (If you don't mean it)

You say you love me, but can you feel it in your heart?
Do you mean it? Don't you hate when we're apart?
There's your truth and honey sometimes there is mine
And the truth is - the truth of love is hard to find

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

You said your sorry, but what are you really sorry for?
That you hurt me? Or that i caught you with that... huh!
You begged forgiveness, but I'm not so pure or so kind
And true forgiveness, like the truth is hard to find

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

People's truth's don't always see eye to eye but,
That ain't no good reason, for you to lie
I'm not asking for promises and fairy tales
All i want is for a little truth, to get in the way, so

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

http://www.box.net/shared/3rvq80xpo4

I had the title of this song, after attending the Blues fest at Byron one year, while watching John Butler it came to me and I originally had in mind for it to be a political song, but months later I was thinking about the truth, and how there is no one universal truth. That in fact two people can both have the 'truth' about a situation and yet their versions of the truth can differ greatly, due to their own personal bias and perspectives, and that every truth needs to be taken with a grain of salt. (Including historical 'truths')

This then led to me thinking about relationships and how you need truth, trust and honesty within a relationship, and that the words 'I love you' can be overused to the point that people say it as routine rather than genuinely feeling true emotion every time they say it. So this became instead a song about not saying something if its just a meaningless platitude.

Life

Girl stepping out on the highway
Thumbing her way to the south
She's gotta lotta new beginnings and a lot to learn
She's reaching forward into her life
What could possibly happen?
What can she hope to achieve?
She's an empty piece of canvas on highway 4
And she's just gaining the strength to dream

And can't you see, she's gotta lot to hope for?
Can't you see, she's gotta lot to dream?
And life can make things happen
But dreams can sometimes disappear

Girl becoming a woman, no time for dreaming today
She's gotta lotta complicated liabilities
And she's searching to find a way
Life becoming a nightmare
Who is she trying to be?
She's a semi painted portrait in a one horse town
But she still has the strength to believe

And can't you see, she's gotta lot to hope for?
Can't you see, she's gotta lot to dream?
And life can make things happen
But dreams can sometimes disappear

Woman stuck on a highway, in a hurry with places to go
She's gotta lotta empty dreams and broken promises
And she's leaving them all behind
Trying to gamble a future
But some don't have a future to give
She's an authentic Mona Lisa sold for 50 cents
And she can't find the strength to achieve

And can't you see, she had a lot to hope for?
Can't you see, she had a lot to dream?
And dreams can make things happen
But life can sometimes disappear
Yeah Life can sometimes disappear.

http://www.box.net/shared/ubufcwh44o

I wrote this song about a girl I met whilst fruit picking after I left high school - we'd both just finished school and the world was our oyster. She was hitch hiking and disappeared and was never heard from again. This song is my tribute to her.

If You've Got a Heart

When I leave it's not the hurtin' or the missin' that's so bad
It's knowin' you won't miss me back that makes me really sad
It's the crying that I've done for you and the buckets more I'll shed
While knowing you don't feel the same, fills my heart with dread

Oh baby if you've got a heart you gotta show it
Cause if you've got a heart I need to know it
I can't just keep on coming back, so you can push me away again
oh baby if you've got a heart, you gotta show it

And I don't know why I even bother coming back for more
Cause you know I'd never hurt you, just to even up the score
And your mouth is paying lip service to a heart that isn't there
As your voice says all the right things while your eyes say you don't care

Oh baby if you've got a heart you gotta show it
Cause if you've got a heart I need to know it
I can't just keep on coming back, so you can push me away again
oh baby if you've got a heart, you gotta show it

You think you're being cruel to be kind, but it ain't kind to be cruel
And you say I gotta earn your trust, yet you treat me like a fool
And maybe its a fool I am, since you're treatin' me this way
But a fool is only foolish till she turns and walks away

Oh baby if you've got a heart you gotta show it
Cause if you've got a heart I need to know it
I can't just keep on coming back, so you can push me away again
oh baby if you've got a heart, you gotta show it

Two broken hearts can't make a whole one
So why you tryin' to break mine is it just for fun?
A tear rolls down my face I'm an emotional disgrace
I could have walked away, is this what I should've done?

Oh baby if you've got a heart you gotta show it
Cause if you've got a heart I need to know it
I can't just keep on coming back, so you can push me away again
oh baby if you've got a heart
Oh baby if you've got a heart you gotta show it
Cause if you've got a heart I need to know it
I can't just keep on coming back, so you can push me away again
oh baby if you've got a heart, you gotta show it


This song was written about my Ex Boyfriend. In the end - he didn't have a heart, and I stopped being a fool.

The first of many

I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet with this whole blog thing, just winging it and seeing how i go :)
Currently trying to record some of my originals at a demo quality, at home on my laptop and get chord charts together; so i can look at getting some gigs. I'm going to paste some of my songs lyrics as blogs, along with some brief info about the lyrics. What inspired them etc :)