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SW​:​S Photojournalist Retreat, September 2022, Beaver Hollow, NY

by SongwritingWith:Soldiers

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1.
Shadow and Light 03:53
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SHADOW AND LIGHT Kate Brooks / Radney Foster When you shed light on dark places You can’t help but let some darkness in It rattles ‘round you deep inside your conscience It breaks your heart believe me that’s a sin That darkness doesn’t care ‘bout what you’re feeling Don’t give a damn ‘bout where you’re headed where you been It leads you round to people you thought cared And when they don’t that pain rolls back around again I paint with light and shadow Please let the light back in Wherever I go I shed my soul Painting stories ‘round this world will it ever be right Making pictures ‘round this world with shadow and light I’ve held a thousand shades of love stories And I have shared heartaches through my eyes If you can’t see the truth then I’m not willin’ To stand by while you choose to stay blind I paint with light and shadow Please let the light back in Wherever I go I shed my soul Painting stories ‘round this world will it ever be right Making pictures ‘round this world with shadow and light I paint with light and shadow Please let the light back in Wherever I go I shed my soul Painting stories ‘round this world trying to make it right Making pictures ‘round this world with shadow and light Shadow and light Shadow and light Shadow and light Kate Brooks and Radney Foster © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music/ Sunburst Flattop Music (ASCAP)
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Pain Pushes Me On 03:51
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PAIN PUSHES ME ON Ben Lowy / Radney Foster / Jay Clementi I wear the hands of God upon my skin On the outside to remind me what’s within I’ve been stabbed bombed and battered Trying to shoot what matters So I pick up my camera once again Pain hurts but it hurts worse Not to feel anything at all I’ve been lost in the silence I find me in the violence And I have chased it all around the world There’s a side of me that feels like it’s wrong But I’ll run down this dream until I’m gone While the pain pushes me on Pushes me on I’ve wrestled my way out of what I’ve seen The trouble in my soul’s bought me my dreams Sitting still is nothing I do well A normal life feels like hell So I roll ‘round this world looking for me Searching for the me that I should be Pain hurts but it hurts worse Not to feel anything at all I’ve been lost in the silence I find me in the violence And I have chased it all around the world There’s a side of me that feels like it’s wrong But I’ll chase down this dream until it’s gone While the pain pushes me on Pushes me on I want to let go but don’t know how Am I defined by my past Are these images a part of me now Pain hurts but it hurts worse Not to feel anything at all I’ve been lost in the silence I find me in the violence And I have chased it all around the world There’s a side of me that feels like it’s wrong But I’ll run down this dream until I’m gone While the pain pushes me on Pushes me on While the pain pushes me on On and on Ben Lowy/ Radney Foster / Jay Clementi © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music/ Sunburst Flattop Music / Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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Ghosts In My Head 03:17
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GHOSTS IN MY HEAD Aristide Economopoulos / Danny Myrick 8:22 am still hungover from sake Phone rings beside me 9/11/01 it was 70 and sunny I started running Jersey City ferry ride The moment that I arrived Raining dust from the sky Images burned in my eyes All the photos I’ve taken Life won’t erase them Even after all of this time They still haunt me night after night Ghosts in my mind Liberty and Broadway NYPD said no entry Maybe that’s what saved me Beautiful autumn sky suddenly Angels and ashes loud metal crashing Funny that I didn’t go far Found a war zone in my backyard Raining dust from the sky Images burned in my eyes All the photos I’ve taken Life won’t erase them Even after all of this time They still haunt me night after night Ghosts in my mind What happened to me Played like a sad movie Scene after scene Sometimes I can’t sleep Demons are calling While bodies are falling And I captured it all Raining dust from the sky Images burned in my eyes All the photos I’ve taken Life won’t erase them Even after all of this time They still haunt me night after night Ghosts in my mind They still haunt me night after night Ghosts in my mind Aristide Economopoulos / Danny Myrick © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP)/ Songs of Shady Grove (BMI)
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Being Afraid 03:23
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BEING AFRAID Ed Ou / Jay Clementi Some people don’t know why I hide from the fourth of July Dogs barking, thunder and lightning My body shocks like a Gaza air strike I try and I try to act like I’m alright I’m just tired of being afraid Afraid I’ll make another mistake Afraid there’s more hearts than mine I’ll break When I show the world the truth I don’t want what I do To paralyze every move I make I’m just tired Of being afraid I locked my emotions down And lost the key so they never get out I keep running to the hurt Free myself from the past but it never really works It never really works I’m just tired of being afraid Afraid I’ll make another mistake Afraid there’s more hearts than mine I’ll break When I show the world the truth I don’t want what I do To paralyze every move I make I’m just tired of being afraid Being afraid Being afraid Being afraid It’s ok to not to be ok Being propped up between good and evil Love and hate Love and hate I’m just tired of being afraid Afraid I’ll make another mistake Afraid there’s more hearts than mine I’ll break When I show the world the truth I don’t want what I do To paralyze every move I make I’m just tired of being afraid Being afraid Being afraid Being afraid Ed Ou / Jay Clementi © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers/ Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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The Road To Hell And Back 02:56
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THE ROAD TO HELL AND BACK Amanda Voisard / Maia Sharp Before the sun rises you’re on the miles of red dirt To find the limits of a scorched earth Don’t come back late, don’t come back light Don’t show your scars when you get home tonight Resilience it ain’t a given it’s a gift And a burden not everyone can lift Turn the walk into wood turn the wood into coal Turn the pain into voices coming straight from your soul Cutting through the heat Rising above the stacks You are singing On the road to hell and back You’re a choir with no savior to be found You can cry or you can sing but you can’t fall down Every time you wake up and walk out of that gate You know all too well how you’re tempting fate Cutting through the heat Rising above the stacks You are singing On the road to hell and back What fire has to burn What ground has to crack So you don’t have to keep singing On the road to hell and back So you don’t have to keep singing On the road to hell and back To hell and back Amanda Voisard/Maia Sharp © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP)/ Crooked Crown Music (BMI)
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Before The Fall 03:25
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BEFORE THE FALL Kiana Hayeri / Maia Sharp They came down from the mountain like a landslide We sank into darkness one by one You are there to remind me how hard I tried Oh but I can’t stop thinking there was more I could’ve done In an unjust world I could not help them all It was a hard year before the fall She was a rebel with purpose ahead of her time And I’m making my peace with a world where she’s gone Still like a picture in the back of my mind I see her quietly asking can’t you stay on I was making my connection when I got the call It was a hard year before the fall I’ll never be the same Life now and life before Are two very different frames I didn’t think I could take one more fall Then I found love in a desert of loss After saying goodbye again and again I drew those lines I thought no one could cross But something told me to let you in I’d built it up strong, I’d built it up tall Thank you for breaking down that wall It was a hard year before the fall It was a hard year before the fall Kiana Hayeri/Maia Sharp © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP)/ C
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Lucky That I Made It This Far 03:50
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LUCKY THAT I MADE IT THIS FAR Rick Loomis / Danny Myrick There’s a tribe that’s a little fucked up Nobody understands but us Living outside the wire Depending on a fixer and driver There’s a fire burning deep inside There’s a mission to bring some light To the stories that are lost in the dark I’m lucky that I made it this far Maybe it’s fate or providence Maybe it’s random happenstance But after all those years I lost All the time and the tears that it cost I finally found someone that feels like home So I don’t have to be alone Yeah this road gets pretty damn hard But I’m lucky that I made it Lucky that I made it this far A million reasons that I can’t sleep A million faces that I can’t unsee My comrades laying in the dirt In places that nobody’s ever heard of From Misrata to Marjah I feel lucky that I made it this far Maybe it’s fate or providence Maybe it’s random happenstance But after all those years I lost All the time and the tears that it cost I finally found someone that feels like home So I don’t have to be alone Yeah this road gets pretty damn hard But I’m lucky that I made it Lucky that I made it this far Roadside bombs and rockets All the times that I’ve been shot at A merry go round of tragedy Somehow all those bullets missed me Maybe it’s fate or providence Maybe it’s random happenstance But after all those years I lost All the time and the tears that it cost I finally found someone that feels like home So I don’t have to be alone Yeah this road gets pretty damn hard But I’m lucky that I made it Lucky that I made it this far Rick Loomis/ Danny Myrick © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Songs of Shady Grove (BMI)
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Mountain To Climb 02:41
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MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB Kiana Hayeri/ Ben Lowy/ Kate Brooks/ Amanda Voisard/ Ed Ou/ Aristide Economopoulos/Rick Loomis/ Radney Foster/ Danny Myrick/Jay Clementi/ Maia Sharp It’s not about the money, not about the fame It’s waking people up with the truth in my frame I wear my misfit label with all my pride It drives my life but it’s a bumpy ride There’s a picture to make There’s a story to tell Even when the road runs right through hell I’m a restless soul with a purpose in mind There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb Whether someone stands up or someone falls down It still deserves a witness while the world spins ‘round I’m not a hero, not a villain, I’m a window for you To capture that moment ‘cause somebody has to There’s a picture to make There’s a story to tell Even when the road runs right through hell I’m a restless soul with a purpose in mind There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb It’s lonely up there where the air is thin There’s a burden to the view but I do it again and again and again There’s a picture to make There’s a story to tell Even when the road runs right through hell If I can make a difference or change one mind There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb If I could maybe get a glimmer of hope to shine There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb There’s a mountain to climb Kate Brooks / Aristide Economopoulos / Kiana Hayeri / Rick Loomis / Ben Lowy / Ed Ou / Amanda Voisard / Jay Clementi / Radney Foster / Danny Myrick / Maia Sharp © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Cross Keys (ASCAP)/ Sunburst Flattop Music (ASCAP) / Songs of Shady Grove (BMI) / Crooked Crown (BMI) Crooked Crown Music (BMI)
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Fly On The Wall 02:31
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FLY ON THE WALL Kiana Hayeri/ Ben Lowy/ Kate Brooks/ Amanda Voisard/ Ed Ou/ Aristide Economopoulos/ Radney Foster/ Danny Myrick/Jay Clementi/ Maia Sharp White house to crack house in an afternoon Building trust and dodging doom My world’s a constant snack and repack Nomads trying to find the boom I’m a fly on the wall, fly on the wall A visual gigolo I’ll go anywhere I need to go Really small or ten feet tall A fly on the wall, a fly on the wall I’m really good at getting shot at, born in NY in ‘79 Yeah, these street smarts hardened my heart But I’m in the right place at the right time I’m a fly on the wall, fly on the wall A visual gigolo I’ll go anywhere I need to go Really small or ten feet tall A fly on the wall, a fly on the wall Don’t lose your cool fool Don’t lose your cool fool Show us your hocus focus, that hocus focus I’m a fly on the wall, fly on the wall A visual gigolo I’ll go anywhere I need to go Really small or ten feet tall A fly on the wall, a fly on the wall A fly on the wall Kate Brooks / Aristide Economopoulos / Kiana Hayeri/ Ben Lowy / Ed Ou /Amanda Voisard /Jay Clementi © 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music / Cross Keys (ASCAP)

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Recorded over the weekend of Sept 29- Oct 1, 2022 at Beaver Hollow, NY.

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released October 28, 2022

Kiana Hayeri/ Ben Lowy/ Kate Brooks/ Amanda Voisard/ Ed Ou/ Aristide Economopoulos/ Radney Foster/ Danny Myrick/Jay Clementi/ Maia Sharp
© 2022 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sunburst Flattop Music (ASCAP) / Songs of Shady Grove (BMI) /
Cross Keys (ASCAP)/ Crooked Crown Music (BMI)

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