Fading Stars (Music & Lyrics)

[song inspiration]Confounded.. drowning.. trying to reach for a more magnanimous me..[listen]

[written words]Your life has been so darkI see it in your eyesI knowI can't blame who you areA tragedy unveiledBut I can't help but love youWhy is love blindHow can I live my life this way?I sit and cry everyday'Cause you don't see itLook to the starsRight when they are fadingThat's when I'll be prayingWith all my heart for youYou wanted moreYeah you wanted somethingPity I have nothing to offer but my...Read more

Farewell by Sea (Music & Lyrics)

[song inspiration] my process of learning to let go of the part of me that will always be a little girl wishing to sing and dance and feel important.. [listen]https://soundcloud.com/graceskyblue/farewell-by-sea

[written words] I say a prayer as you sail away Though I don't believe it will change our fates

Trying to be strong as the rain comes down

I knew all along this would end

And I hope you find your...Read more

Lovestruck (Music & Lyrics)

[song inspiration]a profession of my love for the islands of hawai'i[listen] https://soundcloud.com/graceskyblue/lovestruck [written words]You drift in on a summer br...Read more

Picture Perfect (Music & Lyrics)

[song inspiration]discovering a shoe box of old pictures from high school..[listen]

[download mp3]Please right click on THIS LINK and select "Save as" or "Save link as"

[written words]

Bright city lights swallow me

You're all I see

I've got no fight left within me

What could have been?

Just let the moonlight carry me

To a place we once hid from the w...Read more

You Were The One (Music & Lyrics)

[song inspiration]inspired by first love.. all the joy and hopefulness that we tend to lose as we walk towards maturity and apathy..[listen]

[written words]In the dark, all aloneI am singing your song'Bout a girl, that you loveHow there's nothing worth thinking ofUnless it's about herShe's your worldAnd there's nothing more you wantThan to sing her your words"I've wanted to tell you for so longYou're the truth in every songWhere you belong, where you belongIs in my arms, is in my ...Read more

farewell by sea

i say a prayer as you sail awaythough i don't believe it will change our fates

trying to be strong as the rain comes down

i knew all along this would end

and i hope you find your way home

that you never feel alone

and the waves crash down

a mounting crescendo

saying it's time nowyou're gone

maybe my love would have found a way

it was the wind on your face

washed ashore all my broken dreams

collecting farewells by the seaand i hope you find you...Read more

save me

why domesticate hercut off her wingswhen what you admireis her ability to soar?

words unwritten

[athens, greece]

it's beginning to dawn on me the nuances [read: problems] of video taping out in this big world of ours.. the first being relocating the guitar and camera to where i want to videotape. athens made me quite aware of this issue as my quixotic self planned on singing ri...Read more

hello 2010. i'm having trouble typing you without cringing.

a new year is my new excuse to shed another layer of my silly inhibitions. the last few years have been myyears which were mostly followed by the wordi surfed the summer away in hawai'i with my sister, something we had dreamt of doing since childhood. i let par...Read more

dangerous melodies

turn off your voice. i can't listen anymore.