My Baby, My Love – New Song

With this last love song, I’m pretty set for the material I want on my upcoming album (working title: First Day of Forever). I think the upcoming album is shaping up to be my most positive album to date… in a good way… all songs written this year with life turning around for the better! Enjoy!

Lyrics:

When your reality
Catches up
With your dreams
And it’s more
Than anything
You’ve ever thought
Would be possible
It’s so damned rare
Everything
I’ve found
With you

My baby
My love

And our dream
Reality
Leaving the turmoil
And hatred
In those old lives

Now replaced
With our peace
And happiness
I’m never letting go
Of you, and
What we’ve found
Only wishing
That I had gotten out
A whole lot earlier
With you

My baby
My love

Chords: Dm, G, Em6

Copyright 2019 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved.

Never Enough – A Love Song

Lyrics:

I wish, we could turn
The last few minutes
We’ve shared

Into one hundred years
That we could spend
Together like this

Because

There’ll never be
Enough time
For us

And one night
Or one year
Isn’t going to be

Long enough
For me
To be with you

So in my mind

I’ll turn
The last hundred minutes
Into one hundred new years

That we’ll get to
Be together
Like this

Because

In my heart
I’ll never let go
Of you, baby

And I’ll treasure
Every minute
That I have with you

Chords: Am, Dm and Em

First Day of Forever

A rough recording of a new song!

Lyrics:

Sometimes
You just have to go dark
Before you can find
The first day of forever

When you hit
Rock bottom
And have to
Climb out

Baby, yeah

I’ve been there before
Just like you
And maybe
I’m still climbing out

To find that new place
Somewhere with you

Breathe in clean air
And look out
Across the world
With fresh eyes

Chord Shapes (Capo Second Fret): Dm, Em and Am

Copyright 2019 Mark Hahn, All rights reserved.

Just a Little Bit Longer – Hold On

I finished this song on Valentines Day night.

Lyrics:

When you’re getting
Sucker-punched
By the past
And all the mistakes
You’ve made`

And it seems like your luck’s
All run out
It’s hard not to feel
Like giving up

But there just might be
That one special person
Just waiting
To make you realize
That it’s going to be alright
Just have to hang on

Yeah, baby
Hang on
Just a little bit longer

Cuz we’ve all been there
Somehow
When the world
Starts to seem
Like it’s just no good

But there just might be
That one special person
Just waiting
To make you realize
That it’s going to be alright
Just have to hang on

Yeah, baby
Hang on
Just a little bit longer

Chords: D, Bm and E7

Copyright 2019 Mark Hahn, All rights reserved.

A Memphis Girl – Another New Road Song

24 Hours From Tulsa (by Gene Pitney) has always been one of my favorite escapist go-to road songs and somehow I got the idea for this one thinking of how things could be different. Again with my classical guitar. I like the song!

Lyrics:

I drove into Memphis
Around half past 12
Had already been driving
All day long
Took a seat
Somewhere in the back
Of this old diner
Bobby Darin
Playing on the jukebox
Yeah, it’s how i expected
Memphis to feel
I thought, while drinking my coffee

The pretty waitress
Sat down with me
In the slick yellow booth
Talking about where
I was headed
While looking into each other’s eyes
Two lonely people
Not knowing exactly
Where we were going

But I had a letter
From my baby
In my pocket
Saying she wanted me
To go back home
Give it another try

The Memphis girl
Said she’d get off
In half an hour
And maybe, I’d like to rest
At her place
Across the way
Just hang out
See what happened

But I had a letter
From my baby
In my pocket
Saying she wanted me
To come back home
We’d make it all work out

Then a group of drunks
Stumbled in
And the Memphis girl
Got up to take their orders
She looked so good
To me there

But I had a letter
From my baby
In my pocket
Saying she wanted me
To come back home
Make it all work out

So I smiled as I passed
This Memphis girl
And headed to my car

Driving off into the night
Alone in the silence
Wondering
What would have happened
Had I stayed
And where I’d have ended up

But I had that letter
From my baby
In my pocket
Saying she wanted me
To come back home
Make it all work out

Chords: Bm, A, E

Copyright 2019 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved.

Whatever It Takes – Acoustic Love Song

Lyrics:

Whatever it takes Baby
To make it right
I’ll do it for you
And we’ll find a way
To escape the darkness
The toxic traps
We both fell into
For whatever reasons
Bad luck
Followed by bad choices
Maybe the story of my life
But been broken down
Just so bad
Have to take the chance
To put the pieces back together
Into the places
They always
Should have been
So whatever it takes
I’ll do it for you
And we’ll get there baby
Whatever it takes
I’ll do anything
To make it right

Chords: D, Dsus4, A, Em

Copyright 2019 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved.

Life Just Happens That Way

Another new song recorded with the classical guitar.

Lyrics:

Sometimes
Life just happens
That way
When you think you know
What you want
And the wrenches are thrown
But the wheels
Are already set in motion
And you have to let go
Let life take its course
Even when it breaks
Your old heart

Or you’re left
With all the could-have-beens
Stuck in your heart
Happened before
Will probably happen again
Cuz life just runs
Over all in its path
Eating you up
In slow motion
But sometimes
It seems
Life just happens
That way

Chords: C, F#7, Em (with Dm in minor bridge)

Taste of Your Kiss – A New Song for the New Year!

So I recorded this song last night because it felt like a good way to leave everything bad that happened last year behind and I felt it more reflected how I feel going into the new year. (I had written plenty of dark songs in the past few months, but I really don’t want to record them–better to embrace what’s new and move forward.) I hope everyone else shares this feeling as we enter 2019! Happy New Years all! Also, this is the first time I’ve recorded anything using my new classical guitar (Cordoba C5) and am kind of digging the mellower sound!

Lyrics:

Driving down
This lonely highway
With the taste or your kiss
Still in my mouth

Wondering where
This road will take me and where we’ll end up
Trucks roaring by In the darkness

Driven by lone truckers
Hoping to get home
Before the sun comes up

On a brand new day
Me in my car Driving along
With the taste of your kiss
Still in my mouth

Dreaming of some new place
Filled with peace
Love and happiness

Somewhere down
This dark two lane highway

The light in the distance
Cat curled up on the chair
And me cooking dinner

Yeah, it just me
Driving along
With the taste of your kiss
Still in my mouth

Copyright 2018, Mark Hahn, all Rights Reserved.

Chords: D, A, Em (and breaks with 7th and 9th fret D shape flourishes)

Reason to Smile – A New Song

Everyone needs a reason to smile on a cloudy day!

A quick mix of a new song!

Lyrics:

It’s your strange
Out of place smile
That I’ve always been looking for

Because
When life crashes down
And all I can make are mistakes

I can’t stop feeling, like
I need to keep finding
Happy surprises

And reasons to laugh
And to smile
Because now

I’m feeling down
And don’t know
Whether to hold on

Or to let go

When we’re all caught up
In this nursery rhyme
Horror show world, it’s

Enough to make you laugh
Or scream
But somehow

We’ve both found someone
In each other
Who knows

Just how bad it can be
And how good
And it gives me

That reason
That I need to smile
When life crashes down

All around me
Like a nightmare
Horror show

Funhouse ride
That’s been built
For all the laughs

And the screams
And the kisses
And then the lights go out

Key: C

Copyright 2018 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved.

When My World Falls Apart

Sometimes, it’s like my son said once… music is my therapy.

Lyrics:

When my world
Falls apart
Like it always does
Will you be there

Or will you leave me flat
Like I’ve been left
So often before
Standing alone

But come what may
I’ll keep on going
Protecting my hurt
Keeping it inside

I suppose it goes
Along with being a man
Hiding the tears
in your eyes

When you look out
Past all the train wrecks
To a barren horizon
And the setting sun

And wanting to ride away
From this whole mess
That I’ve made
Of my life

So baby, I’ve gotta know

When my world
Falls apart
Will you be there
For me

Or will be I left flat
Like I’ve been
So often before

Yeah, when my world
Falls apart
Like it always does
Will you be there

Or will I be left flat
Like I’ve been
So often before

looking out
toward the barren horizon
And into a setting sun

Key: C

Copyright 2018 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved.