Brian Hendrix

This was written as part of a songwriting contest on a songwriting forum. I tossed something together real quick based on the theme, but I really like how this turned out, about a man who was a "fixer upper" but a good woman took care of him.

Hands down, one of the top-3 songs I've ever written. This one just came to me like a shot in the dark while I was lying down in bed. I hurried up and jotted down a rough outline, and then the song just came together of a cowboy who has accepted his fate of being alone and without love, and the realization that his "loneliness" doesn't make him blue. It's actually other things that make him sad.

This is one my favorites I've written recently. About a guy whose girl is mad at him, but he knows candies and cards and chocolates just won't do. His girl likes whiskey and she likes roses. I think it's written pretty well and the chorus really stands out and pops the way it rhymes and flows.

A fun, relatively short song I wrote about a guy who's not above doing whatever it takes to be with this girl that he met. We have all in life undoubtedly met someone who had this sort of effect on us. I think it came together pretty well.

I couldn't sleep no matter what, and so I had a tune bouncing around in my head that I decided to transform into a song. This poured out of me pretty quickly, like it had been bubbling under the surface for some time. It's pretty self-explanatory, talking about how our pasts shape our futures, and the days will get brighter for us all. I hope that's true at least! This is probably my favorite chorus I ever wrote for a song. It's very poignant.