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Loretta Allen

About Me

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GREY SKY
My pen rests uncensored but what can it say?
My canvas lies vacant longing for it's day.
If I walk in the sunlight forever, will I miss the clouds passing by?
If I walk in the sunlight forever, will I miss the color of grey sky?
Don't hold on too tight, but don't let it slip away.
What happens tomorrow is what you drempt up yesterday.

If I walk in the sunlight forever, will I miss the clouds passing by?
If I walk in the sunlight forever, will I miss the color of grey sky?
SHOTGUN ALLEY
Down a long grey drive where the moon can hide
the old man muttered on.
With his head held high and his wife by his side,
their love a tragic song:
Shotgun Alley, he's coming back Sally, so hold on to that gun
Shotgun Alley, he's coming back Sally, what have we become?
Under shadows of greed he held the deed
To a room of precious things.
He never left their home for if he roamed,
Who knew what it could bring?
Well, he held the fort tight until one night, until one night
The old man was called away.
So, he sat her in her cap with a gun in her lap
Until he came home again.
He said, "If anyone tries to come down the drive to
Steal our treasures away,
Don't listen to his lies, aim between his eyes
And blow that man away."
Shotgun Alley he's coming back Sally, so hold on to that gun.
Shotgun Alley, he's coming home Sally, what have we become?
Well, he didn't get far in that little blue car,
He remembered what he forgot.
Around he went and up the bend
And that's just when she shot.
She shot out in the cold just like she was told,
She did just as he said.
She didn't listen to his lies, she aimed between his eyes
And shot him in the head.
Shotgun Alley, he's coming back Sally, so hold onto that gun,
Shotgun Alley he's coming home Sally, what have we become?
IN THE SCHEME OF IT ALL
If you made it perfect, than why do I hurt? If you did it for me, can you do it for her? At the end of our darkness a beauty shows, and yet across oceans our differences grow.
In the scheme of it all, when you think you know what it adds up to, it's the smell of your sin, that keeps 'em onto the trail of you. If I gave up everything just to be this, would it make me, less than this?
If I went there could you still care? Knowing all those reasons were not in there? At the end of your life would the love shine through? Do you know that's all you've got to do?
In the scheme of it all, when you think you know what it adds up to, it's the smell of your sin, that keeps 'em onto the trail of you. If I gave up everything, just to be this, would it make me less than His?

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/8/2005
Band Website: please use ESP
Band Members: Loretta Allen- Guitar and Vocals -more to come!
Influences: Tori Amos, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Trent Reznor, Carole King, David Bowie, Beth Gibbons and Portishead, Pink Floyd, Jim Morrison and The Doors, Leonard Cohen, Bjork, ...life, art, poetry, dance...etc.
Sounds Like: the first ray of sunlight
Record Label: Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

STELLIUM!!!!!

So, just in case you have not heard, I have been joined by the musical forces of Marc Basile on his guitar (of the band, The Orange Drops) and Dave Beury with his magical powers on the drums. Please c...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:20:00 GMT

Yup!

So many blessings have come into my life recently! Just wanted to post a big ol' thank you! New band members have arrived, great new venues, and so much fun! I am a very very lucky lady. Not to me...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:33:00 GMT

Getting things rolling

Thank you all so much for the good energy and prayers. Many MANY answers have been swarming in, including but not limited to: a spot in the KatManDu Songwriter Showcase, several prospective new band...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:30:00 GMT

Changing Tides

Well, the album's not exactly going according to plan. I guess a new direction is an order. I've been busy praying for direction and trying to listen for the answers. We'll see where this year will...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:13:00 GMT