Donna Devine

Donna Devine

JOINED:1 year ago
PROGRESS:38

LOCATION:Delft, Netherlands
INFLUENCES:Oh, sooooo many. My taste ranges from blues to classical to folk to jazz to pop to rock - and has even come to include rap and heavy metal (thanks to FAWM's own Calum Carlyle and sapient, respectively (-: ). Inspiration comes from everywhere.

BIO:

I'm Canadian, born in Toronto, but live in Delft, the Netherlands. I'm a copyeditor by day, a lyrics writer by night.

This is my third 50/90. Not sure how far I'll get. There's a probable trip to Canada in August. Still, a handful of lyrics/songs will be better than none.

As well as writing new lyrics, I'm using the opportunity this year to update and post a few revised/rewritten lyrics, and/or to post former FAWM or 50/90 songs that now have completed demos.

I'm also to be found here. A lovely forum full of FAWMers. ;)
http://www.dragondreams.org.uk/SAforum

***UPDATE 13.08: I've WON! (-: I've met my personal challenge, which was to get a handful of lyrics/songs up before I take off for Canada. (-: I'm 100% satisfied. If I manage to fit in one or two more before August 27 - or October 1 - that'll be a bonus. (-:

30.09: Back in Delft, and still chuffed about my 38 posts. (-: Now, roll on FAWM! (-:

Songs: 38 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		Safe From Glass	Rahkoi	30	30 weeks 4 days
2		Shuttin' The Shop (needs upbeat country...		13	30 weeks 2 days
3		Four Billion Years: A Humanist Lullaby		12	30 weeks 2 days
4		Rag And Bone Man	downburst	35	30 weeks 2 days
5		Talking To Daisy (needs music/vocals)		4	30 weeks 12 hours
6		Daddy At The Gate		11	29 weeks 6 days
7		Small Stones (needs music/male vocals)		8	29 weeks 5 days
8		Woman In The Shadows (off-site collab)		7	29 weeks 5 days
9		Tender Moments (needs music/vocalist female or...		7	29 weeks 2 days
10		Daddy Didn't Mean It		4	28 weeks 5 days
11		Her Twang & Her 'Tude		9	28 weeks 5 days
12		The Passing-Bell (Off-site collab)		3	28 weeks 4 days
13		Lost To The Rain	gerrybhoy	16	28 weeks 2 days
14		Acid Rain	downburst	8	28 weeks 1 day
15		But You Will		5	28 weeks 13 hours
16		Young Man, Goodbye (off-site collab/new demo)		4	27 weeks 5 days
17		Soulhunter (off-site collab)		5	27 weeks 4 days
18		On The Brink	Billy Sea	9	27 weeks 3 days
19		Off To Catch An Octopus (needs music/female vox)		6	27 weeks 3 days
20		The Secret (NEW demo up)		6	27 weeks 2 days
21		Like A River	T.C. Elliott	9	27 weeks 1 day
22		I Dreamed (NEW demo up)		3	27 weeks 18 hours
23		The Red Lights Are Dimming (needs music/vocals)		4	27 weeks 9 hours
24		The Lesson	rhymetime	8	26 weeks 6 days
25		Nicely In The Nude (needs music/female vocals)		6	26 weeks 5 days
26		Keep Breathing (needs music/vocals)		8	26 weeks 5 days
27		Messianic Checklist		5	26 weeks 3 days
28		No More In Mirrors (needs music/vocals)		5	26 weeks 3 days
29		His Grim Jackhammer Love	mike skliar	11	26 weeks 2 days
30		Say Au Revoir To My Boudoir (needs music/female...		1	26 weeks 2 days
31	+	Enchanted River	Donna Devine musicsongwriter	13	25 weeks 6 days
32		Closed Her Eyes At 18 (needs music/vocals)		4	25 weeks 6 days
33		The Enchanted River (inspired by Nadia's...		5	25 weeks 6 days
34		Ambassador Kosh, I Love You (needs music/female...		4	25 weeks 5 days
35		Chinese Whispers (needs music/male vocals)		5	25 weeks 4 days
36		How I Thank My Lucky Stars	Deaf Steever	12	24 weeks 4 days
37		But Really I'm Fine	Monty the dust collector	6	18 weeks 3 days
38	+	He Had His Way With Me	Calum Carlyle Donna Devine the dust collector	7	17 weeks 4 days

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I love getting messages on my soundboard. (-: It would be wonderful as well if you'd take a moment to comment on one of my lyrics/songs.
I'll do the same for you. In fact, I probably already have. (-:

musicsongwriter

17 weeks 1 day ago

Thank you so much Donna for your beautiful comments on What to say and enchanted lake. It was so much fun to collaborate!

blindkiwi

17 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks for activating the download Donna, very much appreciated :)

Dan Vaillancourt

23 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for the comment a while back on my WWI song! Glad the topic interests you... it was my first time writing about that war.

sheila k

23 weeks 2 days ago

Hi Donna :)
I haven't had any internet connection without driving to the next city, and by the time my day is done at the wildlife shelter, I've been too bushed to trek over to a McDonald's to get on the internet :( It's driving me a little nuts. I can pop on for a few minutes, then I lose my connection.) Anyway, I'll be having a good time going through your songs while I'm in Nevada this week :)) And I'll even be trying to post a few of my own, G*d willing.... we'll see how it goes ;)

ultravioleteyejeff

23 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for your comment of the lyrics to "A Season in Hell's Kitchen!" Here is the recording: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/10264

gerrybhoy

24 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Donna, thanks for dropping by and taking the time to listen to "come away" much appreciated.

haltedclock

25 weeks 2 days ago

Donna, great to see you here!

kylegreer

25 weeks 3 days ago

thanks again for the sweet words, donna! i definitely love the celtic infusion as well! ;)

SimonWaldram

25 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks for the kind song comment. I've put up the lyrics now, and I'll try to do the same in the future. :-)

wyatt

25 weeks 3 days ago

Well, heck, I was gonna' work on "Riders" some more :)
Looks like I let that one in a little TOO green--I had it a week or so too!Mea Culpa
I think I incorporated all your suggestions in one form or another except maybe one
Thanks Donna

MadTheSinger

25 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for your comment! I appreciate the support. (:

Monty

25 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for the feedback on "Time Waster." I've been having a hard time getting songs completed so I'm stuck posting just the backing tracks and hoping the rest will come along later.

ultravioleteyejeff

25 weeks 5 days ago

Donna, thanks for the comment on "I Have Learned About Myself." Here's the recording: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/8888

testthebest

26 weeks 3 days ago

ps. Oh cool you're singing now! I'll be sure to come back a give a listen :)

testthebest

26 weeks 3 days ago

I'm completely flattered. You're like the lyrics master around here so when you call the lyric excellent it means a lot. Thanks!

themiller

26 weeks 3 days ago

Right... now that I've calmed down. Here's a happier one
http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/9269

themiller

26 weeks 3 days ago

Ooh, thank the faeries for that, I was wondering if it was too angry to post here, glad you thought it retains a little charm. :)

Shoepixie

26 weeks 4 days ago

Donna, thank you SO much for your comments on my songs! I really appreciate it - your comment on 'Darlings' just totally made my day! :)

blindkiwi

26 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the comments on my nowhere song Donna, I had a lot of fun with the whole process of that one.

third time lucy

26 weeks 4 days ago

thanks for the comments, and congrats on passing the halfway mark!

Billy Sea

26 weeks 5 days ago

Hi Donna, yes, would love to give On The Brink if no one grabs it before I get back, thanks :)

wyatt

26 weeks 5 days ago

Yeah, On getting along and C after 1st V--that works--I had it in my head that the C wouldn't work after the first V, but I guess I must have done some tweaking after that--50/90 'bout overloads my one track mind . It shall be done
Thanks Donna

samhealer

26 weeks 6 days ago

Hey Donna! Thanks for the comment, always appreciated :)

gerrybhoy

26 weeks 6 days ago

Hi Donna, thanks for taking the time to listen to "i remain", Wolf's influence on this one was significant and made for a very interesting exercise in song craft for me.

1B King

27 weeks 2 hours ago

Hi Donna, Thanks for the listen on Nuclear Dominoes. By the way, the tracks that I used for most of the industrial noise were posted by a fellow that claims to have actually recorded them on site. Something sort of spooky started to congeal and then took on a life of its own. I did a bit of research and also collected a bunch of rather chilling photographs. Hopefully, I can find some time to assemble them into a slide show and turn this into a video. I didn't start the summer with social commentary in mind, but sometimes when you have a mouthful, you just gotta say so.

albasauce

27 weeks 5 hours ago

Thank you donna! I didn't know how easy that was to fix... I have almost all of them converted so that they can be easily listened to. I will check some of yours out later this evening!!

Arthur Rossi

27 weeks 7 hours ago

Hi Donna, I would like to thank you very much for your kind comment on "just another year"... really got very glad when having been reading it...

cold comfort

27 weeks 9 hours ago

Thanks for the positive feedback on two of my lyrics. I'm glad you enjoyed them.
I've taken your good advice about finding collaborator musicians and it's worked out very well so far. I'm dying to hear the results. Thanks again.
cc

albasauce

27 weeks 14 hours ago

Hey Donna! Mediafire doesn't let me stream so if you click under the tool bar you can go right to the download. It would be great if you had a listen:) thank you for your kind words. writing that song helped me put some things together.

Calum Carlyle

27 weeks 1 day ago

hi Donna, i just wondered if you'd got anywhere with that collaboration we were doing, let me know if you need any further input from me please.

sheila k

27 weeks 2 days ago

Hi Donna :) Thanks for the advice on the file hosting. I tried signing up for fileden, but they haven't gotten back to me with an email confirmation, so I'll have to investigate what's up. I'm back to traveling tomorrow, then pretty much out of internet connection till the weekend... it's gonna be a long summer...! (Actually, it will wind up going WAY too fast, like it always does anymore, lol! I need more time to catch up on listening, and even coming up with a few songs of my own. At the moment I'm fighting with recording one for Nadia. Can't get the volume to work right - just thought of a setting I'm going to go try changing! Back later to listen to more!

downburst

27 weeks 5 days ago

New pic! Nice. I'm pretty sure I can see myself reflected in those glasses.

Comment by Donna Devine
I'm sure you CAN see yourself, Rod. The glasses are big enough to reflect a whole city. (-:

brzan

27 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for listening to Summer Song, Donna and for the encouraging comments!! :D

downburst

28 weeks 7 hours ago

Thanks Donna... I'm a little frustrated right now because I have about 5 songs that are done musically but I can't quite bring them home lyrically. Plus it's 100 degrees here, and my brain has just shut down.

Dee

28 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks Donna. Yes it does make sense to change they "catching eye" line in End this Pretense. Thanks for the suggestion!

brzan

28 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks Donna! I'll add the music to Observer this weekend. :)

rittmo

28 weeks 2 days ago

Second person Ha!, I knew there was another.....!

:):):)

rittmo'

brzan

28 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for the comments, Donna! I finally joined in the fun. ...(even though I will never get to the 50 mark! ;) )

wyatt

28 weeks 4 days ago

And besides that, tied up at twelve--I'm sure glad you're not going to do much on 50/90 this year, otherwise I guess you'd a' probably had me doubled up!! :)

barbara

28 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Donna, you are so right on in that critique of "getting over you" - I like the suggestion of "scars that won't fade" because that line really applies to past situations that time has already worked on but can't erase, while the rest of the verse applies to the current situation, which is the fresh wound. Thanks for applying your attention there!

wyatt

28 weeks 4 days ago

"""""Amazing! Last night within minutes of each other we each posted a lyric involving "twang". :) Then today, an hour apart, we both posted a lyric about dying. I think our Muses must be cousins. (- """"""""""""""
""""""""""""""I noticed that last night and sure'nuff this morning. I won't comment on the cousins thing but the muses must've happened onto the same wavelengths or at least crossed paths . Maybe the cosmic forces were in alignment or something
I've done been outside and watered stuff so it's time for hot chocolate
Y'all keep things moving along

Jane_ukey

28 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Donna, thanks for the lovely feedback on The Letter - it's one of those ones where the lyrics arrived first and the music took a little while to emerge from the recesses of my mind so I'm very glad to hear that the two work together despite the delay between them :)

downburst

28 weeks 5 days ago

Hey Donna. Thanks for the various comments. I'm a little overwhelmed by this place I think (also maybe going through one of those less-confident times right now). So much to listen to... I feel like I've neglected your songs. I will get to them, promise. I appreciate that you're listening to mine.

rosieposy8

28 weeks 5 days ago

thanks for your comment, I don't know why I didn't notice that about the pov..clever. Thanks

blindkiwi

29 weeks 6 hours ago

Thanks for the comments on "Train Lament" Donna. Every one of those reasons has made me late for work at times. Someone stealing the copper wire from the overhead lines was the most bizarre.

I have just been reading through and listening to your songs. Beautiful lyrics

Peter

gerrybhoy

29 weeks 8 hours ago

Hi Donna, thank you for the kind comments on "rose marie" you highlighted the lyric I was most pleased with in the song, I'm glad you noticed it but then again you would expect you to as you are a very fine lyricist. I was temtped to continue the Silently, Secrectly trick but I contained myself to three despite the temptation.

Once again thank you for taking the time to listen and comment.

Comment by Donna Devine
You're welcome, Gerry. ;) Good decision not to continue the Secretly/Silently/Stupidly trick. Often less is more. (-:

alfalfa

29 weeks 13 hours ago

Demo update for "Talking To Daisy": I've got the music worked out for it, so I should be getting a rough demo (with vocals, possibly harmonica) to you sometime in the next few days.

Comment by Donna Devine
Excellent, alfalfa. Thanks. (-:

nightengale

29 weeks 1 day ago

Thank you Donna for your comments, beautiful accupella's Donna, your voice is incredible for these! Perfect fit, I really love them. I'll try and get back when I have more time to comment!

janehung

29 weeks 1 day ago

Hey Donna, glad to see you in 5090 too! Thanks for the comment :) Let me know if you have anything that you would be interested in collaborating on this time around... I know fawm didn't work out but I definitely have time now.

hoops

29 weeks 2 days ago

Hey Donna! Glad you're back for another 5090. Have been trying to have a listen to a couple of your songs but they're not working for me at the moment :( Dunno if the site we're they're posted is down or some weird reason - others seem to have managed. I'll try again later though :)

Donna Devine

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