All the Ways – New Song

Recorded this new song before going to sleep last night.

Lyrics:

When you think about
About all the ways
This mightn't have worked out
The ways we mightn't
Have made it through

All the struggles
And bad choices
And risky deals
Yet here we are

Should appreciate
Every moment
Because
Each could be
Our last

And these are the moments
I want to live with
Not the memories
And sorry stories
From the distant past

Chords: D7, A7, E7

Copyright 2021 Mark Hahn, All rights reserved.

Bright Lights – New Recording

I wasn’t happy with the guitar in my first recording of this song, so I redid it last night. I’m very happy with this version! Captures the feeling I was after much better. Also, I think it’s cool whenever Winston (cat) hears me pick up a guitar and decides he has to come in and chill on my bed!

Lyrics:

The dive bars
And the big ideas
Of youth, and
The feelings
 
Of what is new
Never been done
Before, down
Darker streets
 
Talk talk talk
About the things
We planned on doing
To change the world
 
The regrets
Before we had even lived
But, at some level
We just knew
 
How the world worked
How it tore
People down
Pitted them 
 
Against each other
Under the bright lights
While cops drove by
 
Pigs leaving memories
Of billy clubs
Across your throat
 
Take another hit
And leave this place
For somewhere better
 
Chord Shapes: Am, Dm and Em (tuning: DGCFAD)
 
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Sun In the Garden – New Song

Lyrics:

The sun shines
On the tangled mess
Of a garden
That’s untended, but thriving
In its wildness

With wild rabbits
And young hawks
Unaware, of where life
Is going to take them

Beyond this one
Brief moment
Of innocence
And perhaps

They’re the moments 
We all must find
Everyday
If we’re going to escape
Our darkest impulses

Those moments
Of small freedoms
And the joy
That come
With letting go

Chord Shapes: G, D and Am (tuning:DGCFAD)

Copyright, Mark Hahn 2021, All Rights Reserved