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Just dreaming of someplace else to thrive, live, love, and be beautiful.
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Gotta Get Out

In life, you go through hard times, but you keep believing in yourself. Any Day...
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Any Day

Wrote this one by watching the music stars as I grew up and imagining myself as...
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Who Knows When


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Just dreaming of someplace else to thrive, live, love, and be beautiful.
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Gotta Get Out

In life, you go through hard times, but you keep believing in yourself. Any Day...
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Any Day

Wrote this one by watching the music stars as I grew up and imagining myself as...
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Who Knows When

What is this new love I am in fear of - can I be sure of?
Will it be endless in its pleasures, can this love last forever?

My heart alone at times will dine on the painful memories,
While together, our hearts can feast on the boundless energies of our love.

How can love be proved?
The mere presence or absence of body?
No
And words can be spoken without thought or feeling.
But
Maybe the willingness to give an inch,
Or walk a mile,
Uncomplaining.
To be there,
To lean on,
With absence of sound.
Where only hearts and souls communicate.
Where strength of character is encouraged.
Where the eyes hear what the ears cannot.
Where the heart can hold what the hand cannot.

New Love

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to say when it should be the easiest
It’s what we all want to hear, but it frightens me so
To say the words that are always on my mind
To hope they are what you want to hear from my lips
I’ve been feeling this way for so many days
And I’ve told you already in so many ways
Tonight is the night I have to tell you in a language you can be sure of
This is the night I have to say “I love you”
I’ll pray all day that my courage stays with me
I’ll practice again and again till I get it just perfect
I want to say it at just the right time, in just the right place
To whisper it softly and mean every word
And for eternity, I want to remember
That you also said “I love you”

I Love You

I can’t go to sleep again
I need to feel you close tonight
To dream that you, I’ll keep again
To make the feeling turn out right

Bring back the day you said goodbye
Call and say you love me still
Take away the tears I want to cry
Call, please say you always will

I try to cry, but the tears won’t come
They hold my heart, won’t set it free
This dreaming is the only thing
That can make you again, belong to me

Don’t let me flirt with your memory
Don’t be the only love I see
However, shall I live this life
Sometimes I want to take a knife
To open up my heart and see
The love that you betrayed of me
I’d cut it deep, I’d cut it wide
Again, the love would pour outside
Surround the someone who could be
The one to give love back to me

Surround me too and keep me warm
Through heavy hail or winter storm
All through a rainy summer night
Or sunny spring that shines so bright

Your memories are faded now
I pushed them out at last somehow
To let the love and not the lie
Bring back the tears I need to cry

Freedom

I love you as carefully as the dew
Settles on every leaf and flower petal in the universe

I love you as deep as the ocean
As tall as the sky and as wide as time

I love you as gracefully as the snowflake
Falls on the highest mountain top

I love you as tenderly as your fondest dream
Settles in your heart

I love you as surely as the day will break gloriously
And the river will flow steady to the ocean

I love you as long as I breathe on this earth
And beyond

I love you for this moment
And all the moments of my life to come

I love you more than the millions of colors
Of the sunsets in the skies

I love you as the wind blows
Grateful memories into my soul

I love your touch
Whether you are touching me or I am touching you

I adore the very thought of you
The very dream of your existence

Your love is more for me than any I have ever known
More powerful in me than any I ever care to

How I Love You

Go on with your feelings, take them away.
Go on with your heartache.
I don’t want you to stay.
Can’t you tell the dawn is breaking?
Don’t you know this ain’t love we’re making.
Go on, go on with your heart.

Your passion only lives in the dark of the night.
When our eyes meet, there’s a void in my sight.
It only leads to an empty heart.
The night grows longer; your touch is cold.
Although I search for feelings that are true.
All I can feel is the flesh that is you.

A memory is simply a glimpse of the past.
It rides on a wave, but it does not last.
It comes and goes as with the tide.
Our love used to ride like the waves,
Although the sight of it may be splendor,
It has died. And that fact
No longer can it hide

Go On

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Just dreaming of someplace else to thrive, live, love, and be beautiful.
Play Now

Gotta Get Out

In life, you go through hard times, but you keep believing in yourself. Any Day...
Play Now

Any Day

Wrote this one by watching the music stars as I grew up and imagining myself as...
Play Now

Who Knows When

What is this new love I am in fear of - can I be sure of?
Will it be endless in its pleasures, can this love last forever?

My heart alone at times will dine on the painful memories,
While together, our hearts can feast on the boundless energies of our love.

How can love be proved?
The mere presence or absence of body?
No
And words can be spoken without thought or feeling.
But
Maybe the willingness to give an inch,
Or walk a mile,
Uncomplaining.
To be there,
To lean on,
With absence of sound.
Where only hearts and souls communicate.
Where strength of character is encouraged.
Where the eyes hear what the ears cannot.
Where the heart can hold what the hand cannot.

New Love

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to say when it should be the easiest
It’s what we all want to hear, but it frightens me so
To say the words that are always on my mind
To hope they are what you want to hear from my lips
I’ve been feeling this way for so many days
And I’ve told you already in so many ways
Tonight is the night I have to tell you in a language you can be sure of
This is the night I have to say “I love you”
I’ll pray all day that my courage stays with me
I’ll practice again and again till I get it just perfect
I want to say it at just the right time, in just the right place
To whisper it softly and mean every word
And for eternity, I want to remember
That you also said “I love you”

I Love You

I can’t go to sleep again
I need to feel you close tonight
To dream that you, I’ll keep again
To make the feeling turn out right

Bring back the day you said goodbye
Call and say you love me still
Take away the tears I want to cry
Call, please say you always will

I try to cry, but the tears won’t come
They hold my heart, won’t set it free
This dreaming is the only thing
That can make you again, belong to me

Don’t let me flirt with your memory
Don’t be the only love I see
However, shall I live this life
Sometimes I want to take a knife
To open up my heart and see
The love that you betrayed of me
I’d cut it deep, I’d cut it wide
Again, the love would pour outside
Surround the someone who could be
The one to give love back to me

Surround me too and keep me warm
Through heavy hail or winter storm
All through a rainy summer night
Or sunny spring that shines so bright

Your memories are faded now
I pushed them out at last somehow
To let the love and not the lie
Bring back the tears I need to cry

Freedom


About Me

Bio

I grew up as one of 7 children, and there was always music in the house. I always enrolled in music classes in High School and College. Music gives me joy and allows me to get what is inside out. I never learned to play an instrument. My songs are all voice-only, and I have a few poems I never put music to. I will share both. I raised three children as a single mom, and there was always music in the house as they grew up. They are all music lovers and singers also. You can find a song under my name on YouTube. "Merry Christmas in the Sand" was written at the beginning of the Gulf War. I lived near an army base at the time and watched all the soldiers leaving home to fight. I went home one night and wrote the whole song. I shared it with friends, and they referred me to a high school music teacher who helped with background music and the recording. He then put me on the high school stage with his high school choir as my background singers and recorded the song. I made a few copies and shared them with local radio stations, who actually played the song on air. I will share all of my songs with anyone interested. It may take a while, as I am a novice at electronics, but my goal is to get it done!! Thank you for this opportunity.

CV/History

Most of my work history has been as an investigator, including toll fraud, fraud, legal, and tax. I remain addicted and do family history research on Ancestry in my spare time.

Key Dates

I have never sung professionally, so no future tour dates or performances.

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