Saint Valentine
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Music & Lyrics by Kevin Haden
Performed & Recorded by Kevin Haden
Copyright 2012 all rights reserved
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-Lyrics-

Some kind of servant of love
Your little girl wanted
A champion of love
That is what she wanted
But even just the faintest trace of sympathy
Might have been enough
To lighten her heart
Maybe flowers and well wishes
Even a blind attempt at empathy
But your answer is to chasten her like she deserves
Something short of what she wants
When what she wants is you to be
A servant of love
A champion of love

Careful of her heart now
Careful of her soul now
Careful of the lessons you’ll be teaching her
If you go for what you want
What do you want?
A family portrait where everyone looks the same?
Or a man who loves her before he loves himself?
What will you do when she is older
And she can choose just what she wants?
Time’s running out for you to be
A servant of love
A champion of love

What are you gonna sacrifice?
When are you gonna sacrifice?
You know she’s growing up so fast
Time’s running out
What you gonna do
now that she’s crying out…

“Daddy, won’t you be my St. Valentine?
Before I forget how to love?
Before I forget how to love you?”

Time’s running out

Fast Car (Tracy Chapman cover) LIVE
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Music & Lyrics by Tracy Chapman
Performed by Kevin Haden (voice & guitar), Asuka Fu (piano), and Tiffany Chang (percussion)
Recorded live on August 14, 2010 at Christ United Methodist Church in Bethel Park, PA by Kevin Haden
(P) 2010 all rights reserved
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Jester (What Kind of Love?)
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Music & Lyrics by Kevin Haden
Performed & Recorded by Kevin Haden
Copyright 2012 all rights reserved
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-Lyrics-

What kind of love are you searching for
That brought you here today?
What kind of love are your searching for
that brought you here to me?

Is it the kind that makes you smile?
Or the kind that makes you cry?
If you stay right here for awhile
You may not have to decide

What kind of love?

You want a million candles to light up your heart
But you know they go out when it rains
And though you may not see the sun ‘less the clouds break apart
the warmth it brings always remains
so…

You wanting love from me or everybody?
You wanting love from me?
What kind of love?

You can’t tell you what to want
But you can let it be

What kind of love are you searching for?
What kind of Love?

The Ballad of Birmingham (Jerry Moore cover)
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Music by Jerry Moore
Poem by Dudley Randall
Performed & Recorded by Kevin Haden
(P) 2012 all rights reserved
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I wanted to post a special song for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, so I recorded Jerry Moore’s setting of the Dudley Randall poem “The Ballad of Birmingham”. The poem eulogizes four young girls who died in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.

Dr. King gave a Eulogy for three of the four girls on September 18, 1963.

I heard Moore’s setting of the poem for the first time a few weeks ago. It had such an impact on me. Works like this ensure that we’ll never forget the importance of Dr. King’s message.

Please listen and share on this very special day.

Dr. King. Champion of Peace. Happy Birthday.

K

These Days (Jackson Browne cover)
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Music & Lyrics by Jackson Browne
Performed & Recorded by Kevin Haden
(P) 2011 all rights reserved
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Wedding Story (acoustic)
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Music & Lyrics by Kevin Haden
Performed & Recorded by Kevin Haden
Copyright 2011 all rights reserved
Free download for personal use only

-Lyrics-

My best friend told me a lie
Built up my confidence inside
Kept me from being shy
So I’d say “hi”

Would’ve been your fantasy in my head
Straight out some storybook you read
The one you always dreamed you’d wed
But instead

All you wanted was me, just me
All you wanted was me

So away, away we go, get down
So away, away we go

Would’ve dressed in my best rhythm and rhyme
Try to get you alone just one time
And with a thousand angels sing
Of love so true

I’d have kept you blind to all my flaws
Those faults I fear might give you pause
When upon my knee this ring I have for you
But I didn’t have to

All you wanted was me, just me
All you wanted was me

So away, away we go, get down
So away, away we go

And it blows my mind
That I spent all of this time
Trying to trip you into love with me
When you fell all by yourself

K

On stage at the BMI 7 World Trade Center Festival

At BMI 7 World Trade Center Festival with Charlie Feldman

Relived the J-Gro experience for a minute this past Saturday at Peanut Butter Blues Cafe in Allendale, NJ. I wasn’t expecting to perform, but I should’ve known better. When I go see Mike Clifford play I usually end up on stage with him. It was an easy sell this time since it had been so long since we last performed together and because it was at the place where it all started. Peanut Butter Blues Cafe is located where Beantowne used to be. I didn’t realize that until  I got there. Memories…

Leo Marino, Mike Clifford, Me

Thank you Charlie Feldman for inviting me to perform at BMI’s 7 World Trade Festival on July 1st. I was in the same showcase as Chris Barron (Spin Doctors) who went on two slots after me and played all his hits from the 90′s solo acoustic. He sounded great, just like his records. Very cool.

Ah, the silly faces I make when I sing...

Thanks to the lovely folks at Lola’s Tea House, one of my favorite intimate venues, for having The Kevin Haden Trio back this past June.

Thanks to all y’all that keep buying my music. I enjoy not starving to death

Volume II is rolling along. I’m trying to limit it to 12 tracks, but it’s so hard to choose.  My songs are like children. Been doing a lot of collaboration. In particular I’ve been working with a couple of great cowriters, Alex Forbes and Billy Seidman.

Thinking about booking a handful of performances before the year is out so stay tuned

K

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