73 tracks by TerriEllen
trigger warning: touches on Suicide in the vein of Simon and Garfunkel's Richard Cory
semi-autobiographical
He's the one
Grew up right
He never did no wrong
In his parents sight
He went to college
Got his degree
No one could argue…
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For my wife, on why she was not enough for me not to transition.
Don't ask yourself
Why you weren't enough
Don't ask yourself
What did you do wrong
Don't ask yourself
Did I not love enough
Don't ask yourself
Why was I not enough
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A friend told me I need to write songs about more than just the pain in the world. So, this is a positive song about my heartbreak. ;-)
FAWM 2019
Its a short ditty.
This broken heart
can never mend
no matter the laughter
No matter…
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Alt folk
Black door in my mind
stays locked all the time
lost the key threw it away
At least that's what I say
memories of a loved now lost
can I ever know what it's cost vows said on a hot summer day at least that's what I say…
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The song is from the February album writing month challenge and weirdly enough it kind of came off of a random title called ice in the planet which I did use in the verse so it's kind of a climate change song but in the view of someone who doesn…
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So here's the lyrics for the third song of the month. It's called The Wind of my soul
A brightness, a darkness
A strong storm brews
A crack in the clouds
There's nothing to lose
The lightning strikes hard
Pealing thunder loud and low…
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Personal experience.
Who To Be
Lyrics
Put on my coat
Walk out the door
Just who am I anymore
Cause I just, just can't see
Who to be, who to be
When I was young
I had no needs
I just needed to be free
But then again, oh just…
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The song was written is part of the FAWM challenge. Came from a random title generator. Seems to be with my muse comes from lately.
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Written for the FAWM challenge. I'm not even sure this is a complete song, no chorus. I need to do something else with it. This was inspired from a line from the tv series Lucifer, an episode called Watchtower. It really sparked my muse from…
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Got vocal and a bit of acoustic lead. I still hope my son will do some electric on it. This will have to do for now. I don't care for my vocal, I'm a bit flat at times. Grrrrrr!!!
Lyrics
Tell me, Tell me
You hear me, you hear me
See me…
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Written for the FAWM challenge. Had the school shooting on my mind, started out as a poem of sorts and then it went from there.
Short song no lead or instrumental part as yet.
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Guns
Where do they confrom
Why are they here
Can…
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Written fro the FAWM challenge. Came from a title Mortal Again, it became To Be Mortal Again. Basically an angel from on high who falls in love with a human woman. wrote and recorded it in 20 minutes.
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I was the light
that threw back…
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Written for the 2018 FAWM challenge. Another song written from a random title generator. Silent Stones, it evoked the imagery of Stonehenge and the history of it. Weird where my brain can go off to on just two words. But it worked and I like this…
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Written for the FAWM 2018 challenge. Just thinking of 'My Songs' and how they are, what they are, I'm not Lennon/McCartney or either one for that matter, but I enjoy writing just the same. I just want to get better. No. 9, No. 9 No. 9…
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Written for the 2018 FAWM challenge. Its a bit auto-biographical.
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I stood before God and man
Swore my love to you
Lost in the love in your eyes
Just waiting to say I do
On a mid-summers day
I pledged my love and faith
what more…
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Written for the 2018 FAWM challenge. I used one of the random title generators to get inspiration. It gave me Horror to the News and it just flowed from there. these days who doesn't listen in horror to the news!
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I come home from work…
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As my marriage dissolves I was thinking of home. Home for me is where my love lives but she doesn't live with me where I'm at it's just some where I live and sleep but it's not home that is where my love is and I'm not there and I won't get to…
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I was noodling on the guitar this morning and this developed. The subconscious has a mind of its own.
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I help facilitate at a youth support group for LGBT high schoolers and it's called Free2be it's where they can come and not be judged and talk about all the issues affecting them. A come and talk to us song.
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