2016 has been a tough year — among many other famous people, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recently passed. He wrote “Hallelujah,” one of my favorite songs to sing and play on the guitar. The version I play only has four verses, and other versions I’ve heard also have four verses, but they are a different set of four verses. That said, I’ve read somewhere that Cohen actually drafted around 80 total verses. I don’t know if anyone has ever sung all of…
Lyrics and Music by April Martinez Verse 1 – (Em, Em, B7, Em, Em, Em, B7, Em) October thirty-one, the kids are all just having fun In costumes and in groups outside the house out on the street. They’re laughing, talking, and they’re knocking on the door Of every house; they’re holding bags and calling out, “Hey, trick or treat!” Verse 2 Yet at my house, the lights are out. I scream and shout, But no one hears me crying….
Two years ago, I took up guitar lessons. A year after that, I tried songwriting for the first time. These are the lyrics to the first song I ever wrote, based off a poem I wrote two lifetimes ago. Poetry Verse 1 I like alliteration, linking letters line by line, And making music that you marvel at the movement and the rhyme. We often wonder at the work that went into these words, And contemplate the cool, creative cadence in…