
Lou Gold is a songwriter, topline melody writer, and storyteller. She was awarded a Distinction on the MA Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. Her music showcases her talent for writing lyrics as well as melody, and can be heard on soundtracks across international television and film, from the Netflix Original Cable Girls to a Medecins Sans Frontier campaign highlighting the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
Eve
Oh send the search teams
Oh send the army too
For I will be alone now
Drifting in my canoe
And I will simply lie here
As the sky it changes form
And the sea it takes me places
Where I will be reborn
Eve, we will start again
And you will have your garden
And they will never find me
Wherever I may go
Dancing at my own pace
A life that's full and slow
And I will find a new land
That I can call my own
And I will make a new plan
And autopia will grow
Eve, we will start again
And you will have your garden
And from my ribs I bring forth
A man who is soft and true
A woman who can live her heart
A world where the earth sings too
And we will simply lie here
As the sky it changes form
And the land is rich with living
And far away there is a storm.
Eve, we will start again
And you will have your garden.
Stained Glass
I will pour my feelings into stained glass for you,
So you see them as beauty and art,
And every shape will be yours too
Human and straight from the heart
Human and straight from the heart
I give you my why,
I give you my why,
Why I live, And why I love
Why I reason that I'm enough,
The sea stretched out on its canvas,
And pastel scribbled over shale,
The peach of the sky ripe with sunset,
My eyes a prism we set sail,
My eyes a prism we set sail.
I give you my why,
I give you my why,
Why I live, And why I love
Why I reason that I'm enough, enough.
It's the flow of words,
The sincerity of verse,
It's the way I feel when I sing,
When I meet you here,
In this timeless sphere,
Where everyone exists.
My voice, our heart
This wondrous part
Of being,
Of being,
Of being.
Willow Tree
The way the willow tree is beaten by the wind,
Her soft hair billowing with the song of rain,
She holds steady beneath new builds,
Her old frame grown in its small field.
She is power
In all this rain,
She shows me how to
Transform my pain,
I will bend and shake as she does,
My roots still holding firm
Holding firm with love
She wades by water, where my building is a mast
There in her pocket is a story of what lasts,
Her strength windswept by a sky of heavy towers,
A silent stretch of beauty the city can't devour.
She is power
In all this rain,
She shows me how to
Transform my pain,
I will bend and shake as she does,
My roots still holding firm
Holding firm with love
To love well is to remember,
In every exchange, in every encounter,
That we are all one, that we are all connected,
By the wide web of things,
By the air we breathe, that passes between,
Our soft lungs and the delicate, green leaves,
By the water we drink that relieves
Our parched throats
After coursing along life-rich channels
And glistening in vast reservoirs
By the touch of particles moving between me, my pen, this desk,
The mug I drank from In slow-moving sips.
We are made of the same creative energy,
The same ever-moving life force,
That dances through our bodies, to tell,
A trillion different stories
And colour the whole world in.
Find me, and meet me there,
In that kaleidoscopic dance,
And love me well.
Meet me there.
And love me well.
She is power
In all this rain,
She shows me how to
Transform my pain,
I will bend and shake as she does,
My roots still holding firm
Holding firm with love
She is power
In all this rain,
She shows me how to
Transform my pain,
I will bend and shake as she does,
My roots still holding firm
Holding firm with love
Meet me there, with love,
Meet me there.
Just the Waves
These cliffs are crumbling
I wish they’d stay the same
The sea a wild expanse
The wind a song of change
I tread these sinking steps
To reach my memories
The clocks for a moment stop
As I see our childhood beach
I’m old and young here
At once I’m every age
Grown grey and grown up here
As at the turning of a page
Oh - Woah
Time, give me time
Time, without a clock to chime
Just give me the waves,
Just give me the waves
Just give me the waves
Give me the waves
This view holds me tightly
I breathe the salty high
I’m swept about by surf
My pain washed to a sigh
I’m old and young here
At once I’m every age
Grown grey and grown up here
As at the turning of a page
Oh - Woah
Time, give me time
Time, without a clock to chime
Just give me the waves,
Just give me the waves
Give me the waves
Just give me the waves
I wrap my sandy body
Swaddled in a towel
I’m a childless child
My womb is but a howl
But as my vessel ages
And the lines begin to crack
I am full as the ocean
I am more than I lack
Time, give me time
Time, without a clock to chime
Just give me the waves,
Just give me the waves
{Give me the waves
Just give me the waves } Repeat to the end.