Stolen Moments, my debut album, is an album of love songs. Every love is special and magical and unique in its own way. We open ourselves up and become vulnerable. Do we regret that vulnerability or does it become part of who we are? Knowing how things turned out, should we have stolen those moments, …
Praise for Farewell, Farewell Adieu Previous Next Press Accolades Y. Dan Rubinstein’s “Farewell, Farewell Adieu” was released on July 26, 2019. Inspired by a college reunion, it reflects on the paths our relationships take and how unanticipated turns might lead to new opportunities and new beginnings. “…raw and real …unfiltered vulnerability… capturing the very essence …
So I Can Dream About It [verse] I’ve been thinking of you Since you reminded me About that night of Sitar strains And cardamom I’ve been thinking of you how you held your eyes the innocence of your first taste of tandoori lamb [chorus] So tell me What happened next Even if it didn’t Even …
So Many Guns Guns So many guns How many 4 foot coffins Will it take For us to see We don’t need So many guns Saved Are any saved By all these guns Their flesh shredding Bullets How many saved Each day Stopped So many places It can be done If we just agree That …
Farewell, Farewell Adieu Jammin crepes Hazelnut and chocolate flakes The night that never ends We danced and swayed as friends Furtive smiles, the light embrace Sleeveless gown, sheer black lace He thought he loved you He really needed you Oh what could have been Farewell, farewell, adieu He thought he loved you He really needed …
Mask of Joy January and the oranges have ripened on the tree house is empty roommates gone leaving you time aplenty climb the ladder weather beaten cracked in disrepair savor what you can the sweetest fruit drips nectar through your hands [chorus] Don’t you know it doesn’t show/don’t let it show when you hide behind …
Stolen Moments The first real kiss The late night park The breath fogged windows Your blond brown curls The months that followed Like a sail unfurled When you came back Late that summer And we knew That things were wrong You told me How you wished you hadn’t Saved yourself For so long Stolen moments …
Liking from Afar I don’t know if you know what I’ve been up to we’re all so busy all the time and do you know I don’t know what you’re really up to public photos, curated lines We say the happy birthdays every year But otherwise don’t ever really speak Exhibitionists and Voyeurs Both we …
I’ll Make You Smile Again I’ll boil the water You can choose the tea Steep it quickly, golden honey And sip it quietly Tell me all your dreams unbidden Lay your sorrows bare Will this moment live forever or dissolve into thin air? [chorus] Show me all your secret places your shoulders bare embrace me …
Don’t Break What You Cannot Fix Don’t act so surprised, when you realized that I meant what I said you were the one who, told me you wanted to change everything instead things that we never dreamed, plots that we’d only schemed fibers woven to thread you loved me when I needed it, the emptiness …
Like Galaxies Colliding Around the campfire we huddled for warmth And filled the night with our own song And later, the frenzied dancing the velvet cape – oh toro toro! [chorus] Like galaxies colliding in the pitch black sky Planetary orbitals, gravitational pull The entanglement of bodies in space and time Before I knew, there …