BABYLON RISING - Original song by Natasha Chanwai
This song I recorded on my lil sony dictaphone it's raw, it had just been written, I like to record my songs when they are new and often I havent gotten them completely figured out. It's when they are the closest to how I felt at that time and for me it's when they mean the most. I love the process of when my songs come together. I usually write a song in one session, if it doesn't come together on it's own then I don't bother it just seems to be the way I work. This particular song came together after our city council had made some decisions that alot of local musicians didn't agree with.

Lyrics

Babylon is rising in my town
He's trying to cut my Zion tree down

And they've got generation UPON generation UNDONE generation OPRESS generation
they embrace segregation, all across my nation
Leave me with confussion
With no compensation
Babylon is rising in my town
He's trying to cut my Zion tree down
Oh Lord, Oh Lord

You got to stand up and fight
you heard it all before
You got to do what is right
You heard it all before
cause in the dark of the night
when they come knocking at the door
Thats when you know this fight is worth fighting for

Oh babylon is rising in my town he's trying to chop my Zion tree down.

SOUL SESSION SUNDAY - HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
written by Natasha Chanwai

You hard to understanad the way you do the things you do but...
thats just the way it is.
You hard to understand the way you say the say the things you say but...
thats just the way it is.
We could talk the whole night through
but it will always end up the same
Bring the dawn, come kiss me in the morn
Same shit, different day.

Oh it's hard to understand the way the world can be so gray but..
thats just the way it is.
It's hard to understand the way you look at me that way but....
Thats just the way it is.
We could dance the whole night through
It will always end up the same.
Even if the night becomes to dark
I will always want just one more day oh
You hard to understand

Oh I could cry the whole night through
but I will be here till I grow old.
Bring the wind, bring the rain.
I am your shelter when you get home,
Oh you hard to understand
oh.

I really love this song...I think cause when I sing it, it kind of just falls out. Obviously these words came to me when my dude was being "hard to understand" and often when we have these moments iI come away and sing this song..it reminds me that him and nearly everything else apart from my kids for me are very "hard to understand" this recording wasn't the best I know and there are a couple of bum notes but I don't care so much...I love to record these Sunday soul sessions.
 I love to record them when I've just written a song and it's still abit rough and when there is heaps of space to add other things... I think it is also when the song is the most honest and when it is the most truest to the feelings at the time...I recorded this straight after I had figured the bones of the song out and it's only about an hour since we had the "misunderstanding"....He will always be hard for me to understand, but I'm  certain I will love (and hate) spending the rest of my life figuring him out :)....with all the tears and pains and times where you can't think of a reason to stay...I take a breath and realise...don't get so serious Tash...it's just a song :)

whoa!!!! so sleepy Sunday is going nicely and I decide to check my face book and what do I find out???? The amazing Whitney Houston Dead!!!!!.....a frantic post to question if this is true and quickly many of replies to confirm that it is :(
Being my age....shhhh 35yrs.....growing up and lip syncing to her songs was a part of any young girls childhood of the 80s/90s her music was a staple.
So ingrained into the fabric of music that we don't even realise how much a part of our history she was until now when after a few hours from finding out it is sinking in.
So to Whitney and all the songs you gave us, the great kind of songs we can sing loud and with feeling. wow what a career, what a life , what a woman, what a legend. Rest easy Whitney Houston x

RUMBLE – Lyrics

Rumble – Original song by Tasha Chanwai, Recorded and Guitar By Regan Perry
I hear the rumble it was low
I felt the anger it did grow
I never thought that I was gonna be this bad
Oh what a life we did, done have….we did, done have
Ialways thought that we had time
I always thought whats yours is mine
I feel the changes coming and I’m not scared
Oh what a life we did, done have…oh we did, done have
Brother come out of the jungle and I hear him roar x4
I spread those rumours they be bad they bad – oh
I spread those rumours make you mad so mad – whoa
I spread those rumours make you sad so sad – oh no
I spread the rumours – oh – I spread the rumours.

So I wrote this song when I was kind of in the midst of an epithany…I had been goin through a 2 year long break down (which you’ll probably hear alot about…I will refer to it as “the low” ) when I started to recognise certain signs…it was like I could feel a deep rumble…it felt low reverbing in the depths…it’s when I could start to feel anger grow…frustraion, confussion…after I would think back to when I was about 15years old, back then I would never of imagined my life turning out like this.
Like everyone you always think you have time, like any person who is absorbed into oneself I always thought what was his was mine…and as “the low” started to come to the otherside of itself I started to feel the changes and because I had been through nearly all I could go through I realised I wasn’t scared of change. I had come to admit that I needed change…desperatly.
The bit about the brother coming out of the jungle was just about the different people you can be when you go from mood to mood .  The rumours (which I didn’t record)were the things you tell yourself to help you get through weather they be good things or bad things it all sounds so serious when I read back through but now….it’s just a song.https://www.facebook.com/LyricLab?sk=wall&filter=2