Can I Be

Nadia Trammell · Can I B

The Story:

This was written back in the early 2000. I wrote a lot about falling into and out of love...A lot...

Can I Be

(Music, Vocal Arrangement & Lyrics by Nadia Trammell)

Verse:

When you're around I can't deny

You got me feeling oh so high

On a natural trip

Just from the touch of your lips

You make me feel 

Oh so good

Take me now

You know you could

Stay the night with me

Turn my dreams to reality

Chorus:

Can I be the lady in your life
Can I be the one that you hold so tight
Can I be the one that you share your dreams
Can you be the man who will love me

Can I be the one
Oh can I be the lady in your life
Oh Can I be
Can I be the one
Oh can I be The lady in your eyes
Oh can I be The lady in your life
Oh can I be The lady in your life

Verse:

This times for real

I know its true

Everything I see in you

Got to let you know

I want more than a one night show

So take my hand and follow me

I'll show your where my heart will be

I need you to hold me close

Don't want you to ever let go

Chorus:

Can You?

Nadia Trammell · Can You

The Story:

So I was riding in my car singing to the tunes on the radio.  Then I heard a song that sounded so very familiar...It was my song on the Radio!!!  I almost wrecked my car as I heard the music to the song I recorded a couple months earlier with my friend Eddie Valoy.  Well turns out that the song was a sample of the original song called "Stoned Cold Picnic" by the 5th Dimensions!  For almost 30 seconds I thought my boy Eddie was about to get paid BIG TIME :-)

Can You?

(Music Arrangement and Backup Vocals Eddie Valoy
Vocal Arrangement & Lyrics by Nadia Trammell)

Candy and flowers will make me smile


A poem that says I'll give you the world


Dinner by candle light


A picnic underneath the stars

Pre Chorus:


All need is some poetry


Red roses and blue violets


And all I need is some romance


dinner by candle light


And all I need is some loving


lasting all through the night


and all I need is a real man


Who knows how to treat me right

Chorus:


Ooh Boy can you love me real


If you can't come correct then don't come at all


Ooh Boy can you love me strong


Cause you got to get what you give 

and that's the only way I Live
 

whisper nothing sweet in my ear


Wine and Dine it's fine anytime


whisk me away to your special place


Call in the middle of the day Just to say

Pre Chorus:


Chorus:

Bridge:


Red Roses
 (All I need)


Blue Violets
 (Is some poetry)


Dinner By
 (All I need)


Candle light
 (Is Some Romance)


Lasting through
 (All I need)


The night
 (Is Some Good loving)


Who Knows How
 (All I need)


To treat me right
 (Is a real man)

Chorus:

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Rain

http://api.cld.me/2J3k171J0R1e0N2o1t0H/download/01%20Rain.mp3

The Story:

I think I wrote this song back in 2005...I think.  It was one of those rainy days where there wasn't much to do but stay in the house and lay low.  So I decided to pick out a couple of notes on my guitar and a couple hours later "Rain" was blessing my speakers.  The verse of the song was from a poem I wrote in high school.  I often think I was a better writer in my youth...

Rain

(Music, Vocal Arrangement & Lyrics by Nadia Trammell)

You are the rain inside of my soul
drowning in thoughts and dreams made of you
Like the rain to others we will grow old
For in the years to come our love will be true

Chorus:
My sweet rain...
Cleanse my soul make me new
My sweet rain...
Wash away all my blue
My sweet rain...

So In Love

So In Love

http://api.cld.me/Bq7u/download/01%20So%20In%20Love.mp3

The Story:

Eddie Valoy, a good friend of mine was letting me listen to some of his new tracks.  When I heard this track I asked Eddie what lyrics he had written for it and he said he didn't have any ideas for it yet.  So I asked if I could write something to it.  When I heard the music to this track I immediately fell in love with it and my mind was overflowing with so many images and feelings.  When I hear good music I automatically see images and scenes playing out in my head.  Whatever I see in my head determines the subject and tone of what my lyrics will be about.

This song made me see images of the Fall, Rainy nights with a chill in the air, Couples holding hands running across a busy street, The warmth/affection/love from your lover to melt the chill in the air...

I wanted to do the vocals over again on the recording but never got a chance to do it.  I was singing really flat the day it was recorded and I had other vocal arrangements that I wanted to add for a bridge and the ending, but it just never happened.  So it is What it is and you get the idea...

So In Love

(Music by Eddie Valoy
 Vocal Arrangement & Lyrics by Nadia Trammell)

The things you do for me that no one else can see
You kiss my cheek when I'm asleep
You take my hand when I am weak
The way you make me feel
I know your love is real
You make laugh when I am down
You hold me close when I'm around

Chorus:
The things I see you do
Make me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true
The way you make me feel
Keeps me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true

The things you do for me that everyone can see
You Open doors when the night is cold
You cross the street and give your arm to hold
The way you make me feel
No doubt our love is real
You touch my heart no use for hands
You make me proud you are my Man


Chorus:
The things I see you do
Make me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true
The way you make me feel
Keeps me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true

Never Meant 2 B

http://f.cl.ly/items/2i3g212h461s0L11210C/03%20Never%20Meant%202%20B.mp3

The Story:

This was one of the first songs I attempted to pick out a couple of notes and chords on the guitar.  I'm no Hendrix but I don't think I'm hurting anyone's ears!  This is around the time I started getting into the multi-track vocals to layer and add depth to all the vocal harmonies.  I like using vocal harmonies on the chorus because I think it just makes a song sound fuller.  I actually got my little sister to do all the 2nd and 3rd harmony parts on the chorus.  So shout out to B. Marie for holding it down on the alto vocals!!!

(The Trammell Sistahs)

Never Meant 2 Be

(Music and Lyrics by Nadia Trammell...Backup vocals Brandy Trammell)

What is wrong with me

Is it something I can't see

Do I try to hard to achieve

For love that will never be

Is something wrong with me

Chorus:

I can no more hold you than the waves in the sea

Lyrics I would sing you forget their melody

Kisses I would give you that will never be

I try so hard to love you 

Never meant to be...

Never meant to be…

I try so hard to love you

Yearning for love that's forever true

What am I to do

When my heart never skips a beat for you

I can't continue to play this fool

Chorus:

Bridge:

Never meant to be

I wish it could have been you

We were never meant to be

Chorus: