Studio Session

After several years of focusing mostly on academic matters, I am excited to be finally getting back into the studio to record around 10 original songs at the end of this month (guitar and voice). My songwriting in recent years is mostly jazz and Latin-influenced, but some of the tunes are probably best categorized as alternative rock. Below are lyrics from a few of my recent songs:



David G. Hebert © 2007

Tonight I’m Wondering

Sands across a desert plain
Shifting rhymes and reasons
Form a work sublime
Sculpture to the stars

Bodies cross a bustling street
Throngs of nameless workers
Feed the greed machine
Such aimless ways are ours

But she says tonight I’m wondering
This life’s a curious thing
He says tonight I’m wandering
This life, what will it bring

Doctors cross a perfect clone
Shifting rhymes and reasons
Form a work sublime
Sculpture to the stars

Bankers cross a corporate trust
Throngs of nameless workers
Feed the greed machine
Such aimless ways are ours (chorus)



David G. Hebert © 2009

Things Aren't as Simple as they Seem

Something in the air
Euphoria releasing everywhere
From where it comes I cannot say
Nor when it goes, but you must know
Things aren’t as simple as they seem

With a smile her eyes
Entrancing perceptions paralyze
To cross into a longed for world
How dare I go again, it shows
Things aren’t as simple as they seem

With these passing years
One learns to embrace forgetting
I’m none the wiser, still a fool
And how about you, again it shows
Things aren’t as simple as they seem

But I guess it’s okay
Nobody gets all they want anyway
Oh well, that’s life
And who am I to complain
I try to fix the things I can anyway
Oh well, that’s life
Things aren’t as simple as they seem




David G. Hebert © 2008

I Wonder Where You've Gone

Letters glow beyond the screen
Messages we shared
I know more now what they mean
Why they withered there
Why you vanished silently
Thinking we're not meant to be

I wonder where you've gone
And I wonder what you're doing right now
I wonder where you've gone
And I wonder what you're doing now, and how
How this world's treating you

I still have some things of yours
Lost inside a drawer
Lost this mind still sings of you
Knows you needed more
Why you vanished silently
Thinking we're not meant to be
(chorus)




David G. Hebert © 2007

What This War’s Waging For

One right nation, fair and free
Lies to yourself
And you don’t want to know the truth
Just free trade and manifest destiny
These lies to yourself
And you ought to know the truth

Legions of young men bleed from both sides
They say one side is righter
I don’t know which that would be
Thousands of used youths, what could be won
Dying for some thing
I don’t know what it could be
I can’t see what this war’s waging for
I can’t see what this war’s waging for
Why . . . why

One fine president, father’s son
Lies to yourself
And you don’t want to know the truth
Trillions well spent keeping peace
These lies to yourself
And you ought to know the truth




David G. Hebert © 2008

To Lose You

Don't you see, it's killing me to lose you
Don't you see, it's killing me to lose you
I know things are an awful mess
Believe me, I will try my best
Don't you see, it's killing me to lose you

David G. Hebert © 2008

When the Clique is Out to Get You

What a day, I’m sick of this mess
Will the problems never end
Rumors sting like the hornet’s nest
And I thought these were my friends

What is there to say
When they think the worst of you now
What is there to do
When the clique is out to get you

Ooh, hooray, what games they will play
Manipulation charades
Escapades with deceptive ends
And I thought these were my friends

What is there to say
When they think the worst of you now
What is there to do
When the clique is out to get you

David G. Hebert © 2009

Everything is Going to Be Alright

What if I could ease your mind
Clear away anxieties, for you here
What if I could lift your eyes
After all, there are changes beyond the sunrise

Everything is going to be alright, take it from me
No, no, no
I don't think it's hopeless yet
No, no, no
You've got to hang in there and stick with it
Everything is going to be alright

What if all our work is wrong
And all we own is worthless (it might be)
What if you misplace your fears
Freed without them to make in a day what took years

Everything is going to be alright, take it from me
No, no, no
I don't think it's hopeless yet
No, no, no
You've got to hang in there and stick with it
Everything is going to be alright

David G. Hebert © 2008

True Blue

Light unveils vast seas
Lone the wave brushed shores
Buoyant space, refreshed place

Knows it shows one truth
It’s real more than you

True blue
True blue

[Guitar and vocal tracks for each of the above songs were recorded on May 27th and then mixed on the 28th in the Sibelius Academy recording studios.]