Alana Henderson is a Northern Irish musician, cellist, singer and songwriter from Dungannon.
Wax and Wane
Song Lyrics
I could blame our partin’
For the fact that I’m not startin’
All my mornings at the time they ought to start
And I could summon up a sisterhood
Cry lead me out of widowhood
But that is melodrama on my part
I could blame my grieving’
On the fact that I’ve been leaving
Us behind, the ones we were when this began
But I have rose-tinted us ruby
And I’ve conjured up a new me
Who bent freely to her newly moulded man
But we bent and we broke and I meant what I spoke
And the blame game does not produce a winner
We went as far as we could go we had to go that far to know
That we had nowhere left to aim
And no one left to blame but
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
And I could blame my parents
For my vices so inherent
That I cannot shake them much as I may try
But how much have I inherited?
Or picked up since I was a kid
That nature versus nurture paradigm
I could blame wrong turns that I take
On decisions that my head makes
Then trace each error right back to my heart
And is it broken ’cause you toyed with it
Or was it formed with a little split
That grows each year further and further apart
But we love and we lose and we lash-out and we bruise
And the name of the game’s just the living
We go as far as we can go we’ve got to go that far to know
That we have everything to gain
By knowing we can blame
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
And so I look to Karma
And if I try not to harm another
I will not be harmed by anything
If I salute the magpie knock on wood
Will I be doing any good?
Am I strung up or do I pull the string?
Will the fact I cling too tightly
To my dreams come back and bite me
Am I trying to make a science of an art?
And will the very fate I wish to woo
Be the one that I undo
By thinking I can steer this crazy cart
But I’ll live and I’ll learn
And ‘I’ll light and I’ll burn
Til the flame simmers down to a spark
I’ll go as far as I can go
I’ve to go that far to know that I have everything to gain
By knowing I can’t train
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
I never said it was your fault
I only wanted to blame someone
I never said it was your fault
I only wanted to blame someone
The moon’s wax and wane and the turn of the tide
Song About A Song
Song Lyrics
Today everything I see seems to say
Forget you not the time you went away
All the fluttering plans you made that didn’t fly
And the half-baked dreams you had that didn’t rise
Reflecting back on me through my tired eyes
And I overhear the wind whispering by
It’s singing our song, out of time
Oh, I’m two steps in reverse with every line
And by the end of this verse
You’ll still be mine, Still be mine…’Cause I still hear our song some times
Still lose myself inside old lines
And I still play it to death at times
There is comfort in old lines
And I know
I tend to focus to much on the past
Glorify the things that do not last
‘Cause I can filter out how we behaved
All the lies we told the reason why we caved
This melody makes all that go away
Oh I’m two steps in reverse and we’re Okay
And by the end of this verse…We’ll still be fine… Still be fine…
But don’t call me up to choose me as your crutch
You may not realise, you’re asking too much of me
Even one touch of your hand on my arm
Sends me five steps behind
Humming Our Song ‘gainst the storm
And just because I may hear our song sometimes
Still lose my head inside its lines
And I still miss you, to death at times
I still forget how to sing it
I’ve run out of lines
And by the end of this song…
If I can finish this song…
We’re out of time…
Out of time
The Tower
Song Lyrics
We’ve all got to play dead for our own good sometimes
Close our hearts and our minds and our eyes
And make out that we’ve crossed the lines
Into the next realm
We’ve dropped the helm
We’ve all got to retreat into our own wood sometimes
Where your mother, your brother and every other
Can prop you up like back in old times
So you climb up
To the top of the tower you descended
And don’t come back down until you are mended
And regale your loved ones with how it all ended
And you will be fine
But for now…
The poets’ words are contradictions in terms and you curse their rhyme
‘Cause you have ‘loved and lost’ but you feel star-crossed and you search to find
Any sweetness in your sorrow won’t see you tomorrow
Well fare thee well my first and fairest
I need time
You were the best, the dearest the one I held nearest
Every joy be thine
But I need to
Climb up to the top of the tower I descended
To the top of the tower I descended
And don’t come back down until I have mended
And regale my loved ones with how it all ended
And I will be fine
But for now…
When you’ve lost him feels like you’ve lost a limb
And when you can get another feels like ‘why bother?’
When hindsight’s review leaves you painted the fool
When cruel to be kind feels like cruel to be cruel
You climb up
To the top of the tower you descended
And don’t come back down until you are mended
And regale your loved ones with how it all ended
And you will be fine
But for now….
You will be fine but for now…
You will be fine but for now…
It’s gonna take time
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