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Goodnight My Love

from You, Me and the Moon by Monica Lee

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She said ‘Sing it in your phone’

Making up songs on the spot was always a part of bedtime
Request were made for topics
Or not, just a new song

Many songs came and went in those dark rooms
As I would let my brain wander
singing , no willing them to sleep
With suggestive language and
Persistent beats
I would weave images
Of favourite places
And favourite activities
Beautiful spaces and
Beautiful memories

Stories of my childhood
And stories of my own
Made up in the moment
To be lost to dreams and tired minds
They would flow

So I replaced songs about lost loves
new loves
Troubles and friends

With stars and moons
And beaches
And long weekends
Descriptive beyond miss
Putting words to release
Singing about sleep
Every night becomes tomorrow

One night, the request came
Nov 16, 2016
She was 7, soon to be 8
She asked for a new song
I stood in her new room,
They had recently moved from sharing a bunk bed
to two platform beds
In side by side rooms
They could hear me singing to the other
Sometimes they would ask for the song I sang to the other one
But it was already gone
Some made up moment
Some silly fart song for Matteo
All songs had to be fart songs for him for the last two years of so…
(any song you hear tonight - replace the key words with Fart and you will be there!)

I remember looking out the window
My had caressing her hair
Standing in the dark
I sang
As I finished
She sleepily said
‘Sing it in your phone’
And off to dream land she went

I ran to my phone and sang what I could remember
Luckily not getting interrupted by anyone or anything
I caught it
I later wrote it out and began exploring what the chords could be

Last summer
I brought this song to Marc Atkinson
I brought my vision of a Disney esk
Huge orchestration
With strings and things
And more things and grandeur
In my mind I heard all this

Then he said,
Let’s just try something
And as he played the song on his guitar
I sang this lullaby
Soft and sweet

The room settled
We found that moment of peace
And I knew this was
What the song needed
What it could be


Goodnight My love

lyrics

Goodnight My Love

Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight my love
Goodnight the day is done
Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight my love
The night it has begun

Close your eyes an sleep my love
Close your eyes and see
Tomorrows just a dream away
Upon a night fantasy

Dream
Dream
Dream of me
In your night time fantasy

Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight my love
Goodnight it’s time to rest
The day is done. The night has come.
So sleep, sleep my love

lyrics and music by Monica Lee ©️ 2023

credits

from You, Me and the Moon, released May 24, 2023
Goodnight My Love Lyrics and Music by Monica Lee ©️ 2023
Monica Lee - Vocals,
Marc Atkinson - Guitar


Produced by Marc Atkinson
Recorded and mixed by Marc Atkinson at The Barn Studio on Hornby Island, BC
Mastered by Marc Atkinson
Cover art by Jenny Ritter
Album layout by Lyle Grant
Sequencing by Adrian Dolan
Made in Canada / Fabriqué au Canada

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Monica Lee Vancouver, British Columbia

A Vancouver multidisciplinary artist for over 20 years, Lee is well known for her powerful songwriting and performing in the Roots, Jazz and Country traditions as well as being a charismatic children’s educator in her wonderful program, Jump into Music. ... more

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