Please Yourself

Chorus
I’m gonna please myself
Do what I want to do
I’m gonna be a boss
to myself be true

Verse1
No more, yes girl, my bags are full
Fed up carrying the weight of you
I’m gonna push back, that’s what I’ll do
Nothing else is up to you.

Chorus

Verse 2
Happiness and light now shining through
I’m not on a dimmer set by you
never the worm, but a tumbling girl
flexible in every turn

Chorus


No is a sentence, No. No. No.
Yes, if it pleases me, otherwise burn
I’m gonna please myself today
You forfeit your right of sway.

Chorus

Bridge
Always time for every other one
When did my needs disappear?
always the last in line my dear
Well I’m first in my queue of one.

Chorus

Lyric Sheena Hope

Mountain climb

Verse 1
I think of you always, as often as I breathe
It’s involuntary without a reprieve
The pain of our parting is still there today
Time is an enemy carrying you away
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Chorus
I look at my life and the decisions I’ve made
Regrets I take with me all the way to the grave
I’m aware no prayer can turn back time
Cause my heart starts each day with a mountain climb

Verse 2
I hope you’re happy and blessed with good things.
I’ll love you forever, whatever life brings.
In my heart, I rehearse conversations with you
But my mouth can’t deliver what I know to be true.

Chorus

Verse 3
So while I’m breathing, I hope for the best
You’re here on this planet and for that I am blessed
We don’t have contact and that’s not ok
But you’re in my heart always and that’s where you’ll stay

Bridge
Do you hate me I wonder, or think of me still.
Years of silence haunt me and always will
Inside is a hollow, shaped just like you
God knows, this ache can still break me in two

Last chorus
I look at my life and the decisions I’ve made
Regrets I take with me all the way to the grave
I’m aware my prayers never turned back time
but some days the mountain is easier to climb

Lyric Sheena Hope

Wishes

Verse1
I wish to forget, and remember when
Hidden moments were beyond my ken
Halcyon days, with amazing views
Innocence and ignorance without excuse

Chorus
Wishes, for a past, ever true
The future splashed a different hue
Time, with kindness imbue
Tomorrow's thoughts, let trust accrue

Verse2
I wish those memories, remained obscure
I miss the past without detour
I wish the path that led to here
No lift of chin, no shed of tears

Chorus

Verse3
Will the games of love renew?
From frosty starts to a warm review
We made it here, from a flawed there
Let's roll the dice, and maybe we’ll go to the next square.

Chorus

Bridge
Will your wishes and sorries ring true?
Time and trust, eat the pudding through?
I wish love stamina, keeping it cool
From articulate others and no pedestal view

Last Chorus
Wishes, for a past ever true
Our future splashed a different hue
Time, will love imbue
Tomorrow's thoughts, and trust accrue

Lyric Sheena Hope

Verse1
Christmas lives in families
gathered round the tree
It’s a pretty picture, not Christmastime for me
life’s complicated, not simple for a while
time to contemplate my perfect inner child

Chorus
Christmastime, how merry, when viewed from outside in
The tree still has its needles, the welcome’s not worn thin
I dream of a perfect Yuletide, of snow and cosy fires
I dream the peace of Christmas, still nestled deep within.

Verse2
Christmas charms with dinner
Where the table’s set for eight
Some still come together, to swallow more than hate
life’s complicated, real hard to raise a smile
time to contemplate my perfect inner child

Chorus

Verse3
Christmas calms with music
Festive Carols, favourite songs
Harmony in the chorus, absolving all those wrongs
life’s complicated, so it’s taking me a while
Time to contemplate that perfect inner child


Bridge
Christmas cheers with giving
Exchanging gifts on Christmas morn
My last Secret Santa was a book already torn (of porn)
I brought a bottle, stuck on a bow
then drank it with friends under the mistletoe.

Verse4
Christmas lives in families
Gathered round the tree
I’d paint that picture, of how that time could be
Life’s still complicated, but my heart is reconciled
I’ve hope for future yuletides, in that perfect Christmas child

Chorus

Lyric Sheena Hope

Butterfly

Verse1
You’re my pattern in the chaos
Of changes out-with control
bleak house with spiralling staircase
No space for your quiet soul

Chorus
You’re my butterfly in the system
The theory of life, I embrace
You’re my butterfly in the system
You smile and I keep faith

Verse 2
Birds of a feather, they’re exhausting
A murder of crows, they fill the sky
But you and I play the long game
We smile and I watch you fly

Chorus
You’re my butterfly in the system
The theory of life, I embrace
You’re my butterfly in the system
You smile and I keep faith

Verse 3
You’re my pattern in this chaos
With you, I feel in control
Our house, not a house of mirrors
Still reflects a beautiful soul

Chorus
You’re my butterfly in the system
The theory of life, I embrace
You’re my butterfly in the system
You smile and I keep faith

Bridge
Tide and time, the moon keeps rising
Above the heat, the smoke, the pyre
A butterfly will change the system
We wait and look past the fire.

Chorus
You’re my butterfly in the system
The theory of life, I embrace
You’re the butterfly in the system
You smile and I keep faith

Lyrics Sheena Hope

Marathon

Verse 1
We haven’t arrived, where we’ve come from
nostalgia knows the doors to knock on
In maudlin moments, life makes sense
Then we remember the present tense.

Chorus
Forward thinking, from a backward glance
Who would’ve thought I’d take this stance?
Forgiveness, the treadmill I’m working on
Cause we’re not a sprint, but a marathon

Verse 2
Rose tinted mirrors, reflecting the deal
We made with ourselves, keeping it real
Flowery wallpaper, covering the cracks
Our House of dreams, with rules you relaxed

Chorus
Forward thinking, from a backward glance
Who would’ve thought I’d take this stance?
Forgiveness, the treadmill I’m working on
Cause we’re not a sprint, but a marathon


Verse 3
We haven’t got to where we’ve come from
nostalgia knows the doors to knock on
when we remember and life makes sense
then we’ve arrived at the present tense.

Bridge
A revolving story, hope keeps us moving
with each lap, times are improving
We may be injured, it's a painful fall
Confidence bruised by another’s call

Chorus
Forward thinking, from a backward glance
I never thought I’d take this stance
Forgiveness, the treadmill I’m working on
Cause you’re not my sprint, you’re my marathon

Lyrics Sheena Hope

The Fire

Verse 1
Do you still hope to meet “The One”?
That romcom staple for the young
or not so old, or not so single
we swipe, we post, we drink, we mingle

Chorus
That fierce flamboyant fabulous fire
This love we’re sold, we seek, inspire
all consuming, blazing bright
Our shield against the fading light


Verse 2
Maybe you’re waiting, scared of the spark
More afraid to burn than of the dark
Don’t be shy, just walk your own track
until you discover love reflects back

Chorus
That fierce flamboyant fabulous fire
This love we’re sold, we seek, inspire
all consuming, blazing bright
Our shield against the fading light


Verse 3
We’re all searching, in our own way
Just trying to cast life’s original play
I hope you’re lucky, I hope you’ve found
That connection, your silence in sound


Bridge
time, experience and maturity lessen
the chase, the hunt, the great obsession
finding peace via true loves ramble
There’s the warmth that’s worth the gamble


Chorus
That fierce flamboyant fabulous fire
This love we’re sold, we seek, inspire
all consuming, blazing bright
Our shield against the fading light

Verse 4
You may choose and be happy solo
or where you walk, someone will follow
As darkness falls, lay down your armour
Our lives revealed by the fading embers


Last Chorus
That fierce flamboyant fabulous fire
This love we’re sold, we seek, inspire
but finding peace via true loves ramble
There’s the warmth that’s worth the gamble

Lyric Sheena Hope

TODAY

The sun comes up on another day
tomorrow starts early, but it won’t stay
the sun will go down on another today
each precious moment just slipping away



each heartbeat, each breath, the rhythm within
to not wring every minute of life, what a sin
Life passes us by as we gaze at our feet
Lift your head and walk, then the path is complete


Why do we talk of “spending” time?
Cause the currency of life is a special thing
It is worth much more when we give it away
You can never buy time no matter what they say


One day I will look back on my time
and wish I’d enjoyed more loving of mine
family, friends that’s where the light shone
Cause work will just replace me after I’ve gone


Lyrics Sheena Hope