Modern Communication
Date submitted: November 15, 2020 at 6:41 am
By: Douglas Millaway, Doyle Turner,
Copyright info: ©2020 Doug Millaway | Doyle Turner
Lyrics sheet: https://mnsongwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/8/Modern-Communication-1.rtf
Another Monday morning waking up alone
I hear you downstairs on the telephone
It seems like we don't talk much anymore
A kiss goodbye as you're walking out the door
It's a human complication
Not enough information
You go one way, I go the other
Modern communication
You’re the stranger closest to my side
Caught in the net, we’re lost and disguised
With all the tweets and the messages I see
You have no idea how much this email means to me
It's a human complication
Not enough information
You go one way, I go the other
Modern communication
Signals crossed in zig-zag lines
strung across the desert of our minds
electronic wind fans the fires
ooooh we’re left whistling in the wires
leaves drop like notes from each tree branch
sunlight burns across our empty hands
only so many heartbeats in these minutes
only so many mornings with you in it
It's a human complication
Not enough information
You go one way, I go the other
Modern communication
Spread My Wings and Fly
Date submitted: November 16, 2020 at 3:35 pm
By: Vicki Morrison Goble, Kristine Vlaich,
Copyright info: ©2020 Vicki Morrison Goble | Kristine Vlaich. All Rights Reserved.
Lyrics sheet: https://mnsongwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/8/VlaichGoble-Spread-My-Wings-and-Fly-Cowrite-Challenge-1.rtf
You have no idea how much this email means to me
If you hadn't sent it I don't know where I would be
You've helped me understand myself and now it's plain to see
Temporary setbacks are no calamity
You told me I am strong and full of life and you have found
I've always faced my fears, I've forged ahead and held my ground
I've found my inner strength; I will be firm; I won't back down.
I'm so glad you wrote; your words have turned my life around
I can climb a mountain high
Though I may never reach the sky
If it's so muddy I just slide
I will spread my wings and fly
No more flowing tears for me; no sorrow in my heart
My depression's in the past; it won't tear me apart
I had given up; you helped me make a fresh new start
Your caring words enabled me to rise up from the dark
Suddenly
Date submitted: November 20, 2020 at 1:51 pm
By: Korina Hackert, Ann Thompson,
Copyright info: ©2020 Korina Hackert (lyrics) | Ann L. Thompson (music)
Lyrics sheet: https://mnsongwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/8/Suddenly-for-MAS.rtf
You have no idea how much this email means to me
I saw it so suddenly
It warmed my heart and melted my walls.
You have no idea how much this email means to me
I saw it so suddenly
The love you shared flowed so easily
Your words felt so true opened my heart my defenses broke down.
Now I can see, how true love can be
You have no idea how much this email means to me
I saw it so suddenly
You brought true love and filled my life
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly.
Take Me Back
Date submitted: November 20, 2020 at 5:59 pm
By: Leslee McKee-Perry, Patrick Kozub,
Copyright info: ©2020 Leslee McKee-Perry | Patrick Kozub
Lyrics sheet: https://mnsongwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/8/LesleeMc-KeePerry_PatrickKozub-TakeMeBack-CowriteChallange.rtf
Waves rolled in, Carried your castle back again
perfect towers tumbled through the waves
and you called to me oh how cruel the sea could be
as the ocean gives, how quickly she can take
[Chorus]
our brightest days, hang around us in lonely ways
take me back to where the ocean plays
I still see you there crooked fingers and curly hair
take me back to where the ocean plays
Tides like days, crashing in then sweep away
Passing seasons, days turn into years
and you waved to me oh how fleeting the time can be
College came, and you were on your way
[Repeat Chorus]
[Bridge]
From a voyage away
Glass bottle floating for days
Message rolled up,
Bobbing in the waves
You have no idea
how much this e-mail means to me
I’ll be waiting where the ocean met the beach
[Repeat Chorus]
take me back to where the ocean plays
Nightingales and Doves
Date submitted: November 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm
By: Mary Kealy-Falk, Tony Wentersdorf,
Copyright info: ©2020 Mary Kealy-Falk | Tony Wentersdorf
Lyrics sheet: https://mnsongwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/8/Nightengales-and-Doves-1-1.rtf
Walking down that barren road, as day turned into night
I felt so lost and lonely, I couldn’t see the light
Then suddenly I heard a sound, and looked up at the sky
Two birds were singing a soft, sweet song
One sang low and one sang high
Chorus
Nightingales and doves, I watch them as they fly
They grace us with their songs of peace and coo sweet lullabies
Nightingales and doves lift up our hearts and minds
Serenade us with their soothing notes in dark and troubled times
I sat beneath an oak tree looking at the setting sun
The birds flew low across the glow and perched where their day was done
They cooed and chirped and fluttered then stilled their lifted eyes
Again, they sang their soft, sweet song
One sang low and one sang high
Repeat Chorus
I found two friends in reverie who cheered my saddened heart
A smile came across my face as the music pined to start
They cooed and chirped and fluttered then stilled their lifted eyes
I joined them in singing their soft, sweet song
I sang low and they sang high.
Repeat Chorus
