Singer/songwriter/composer based in minnesota usa. Derek writes mainly in the country music genre though often in others as well such as folk,pop & celtic..
Always there by derek mccorkell copyright 2017
here i sit all alone with my darkness
barely just keeping my demons at bay,
thinking how in the world can i end this,
asking ,what can i do , what can i say,
this road that we walk can get rocky,
sometimes we stumble ,sometimes we fall. Yet i...
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Picture postcard memories copyright 2015 derek mccorkell
looking through our faded photographs,
my mind slips away,
to you & i watching
the night turn to day. Then walking slowly hand in hand,
as the sun lights up the sky,
the cares of this world
just passing us by. Picture postcard...
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Heart of the city copyright feb 2018 derek mccorkell
chorus
there ain't much love in the heart of the city,
streets get dangerous, when the daylight's gone. Mean streets are hard & cruel, never pretty,
in the dead of the night the heart of the city beats on. In the dead of the night the...
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Lying next to you derek mccorkell 2005 re-done april 2018
5:30 in the morning, get up out of bed,
another day just dawning , thoughts of coffee in my head,
yet for the first time in a long while, seems i slept all night,
loving you within my dreams and holding you tight,
the smell of coffee...
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