productivity...

Like I mentioned in my last blog, I haven't been writing as much as usual these days. Well, in the last week that has really started to change! Thank heavens! This weekend I went down to Calgary for a night to cowrite with Ashley Rae (country singer/songwriter) and Joni Delaurier (singer/songwriter - winner of a SOCAN songwriter of the year award in fact!!).

Ashley & I wrote two songs together Friday night & Ashley, Joni & I wrote one song together Saturday afternoon. Two weekends ago I got together with my lovely friend Erica Viegas (Edmonton singer/songwriter) and wrote a song with her! So that's four songs in less than 2 weeks, and my heart feels freer than it has in a while.

One of the songs Ashley & I wrote...

Head Above Water
*I got the idea for this song while having a bath and floating with my head barely above the water, just enough so I could breathe.

verse
I'm finding it too hard to breathe
The day to day is overwhelming me
I keep wandering in too deep
And now I'm out of reach

chorus
The tide keeps pulling me in and I'm
Treading water again
My life keeps pushing me under
I'm just trying to keep my head above water
I'm just trying to keep my head above water

verse
I'm caught in your undertow
You won't let me, let you go
I'm drowning in what we used to be
Your waves are always breaking me

chorus
The tide keeps pulling me in and I'm
Treading water again
Your love keeps pushing me under
I'm just trying to keep my head above water
I'm just trying to keep my head above water

bridge
and the sweetest relief
will be the sand beneath my feet

chorus
The tide keeps pulling me in and I'm
Treading water again
My life keeps pushing me under
I'm just trying to keep my head above water
I'm just trying to keep my head above water
 
Copyright 2010 Ashley Rae & Lisa Nicole Grace.