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Under the Moon

by Donna Rawlins AKA Donatella

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Under the Moon 06:26
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UNDER THE MOON ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Donna Rawlins Whisper softly in my ear I’ll tell you what you want to hear And wash away your lonely tears To get you through the night Take me to a higher ground Talk to me without a sound I promise I won’t let you down Everything’s all right Feel the rhythm fill the air Do all the things you never dared Give it up without a care Let your feelings show Come on lay down by my side I want ya to stay through the night Watch me baby hold me tight Never let me go CHORUS UNDER THE MOON, even angels fall Sometimes you have to take your chances, risk it all UNDER THE MOON, kiss me till the dawn Like a dream, you know tomorrow I’ll be gone BRIDGE Don’t think about anything Just savor what this moment brings Come lay your body down Rest with the magic that we’ve found Whisper softly in my ear I’ll tell you what you want to hear And wash away your lonely tears Ooh... get you through the night Take me to a higher ground Talk to me without a sound I promise I won’t let you down Ooh … Everything’s all right CHORUS
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Maybe Someday 03:44
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MAYBE SOMEDAY ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Donna Rawlins Slammed my fist against the wall Hopin’ it would ease the pain Silence filled the empty room Stupid girl I’ve been for you Smell of you still on my bed Play my guitar, achin’ for sleep Parting words empty & tense Kiss on the cheek like I’m a friend CHORUS I guess "Maybe Someday…" echoed Until I drove myself crazy, waiting on you I thought "Maybe Someday…" You’d change your mind but now I know "Maybe Someday…" won’t come Nothin’ left for me to say God give me strength to walk away. CHORUS BRIDGE Never miss illusions left behind Cause you’re not here with love that matters I’m better off when love stays in my head
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Shadows Fall 04:33
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SHADOWS FALL ©2001 Donna Eveland, Stacy Robin, Donna Rawlins & Jan Kuehnemund Shadows Fall Stretch out across the room Little by little Swallowing the light The last sighs of dusk taken by the light When shadows fall do they make a sound now? In the dark are shadows there at all? Maybe it’s never really what you see Perhaps it’s all just make believe I close my eyes and try to imagine What’s behind the veil Behind what I see Reflects another part of me When shadows fall do they make a sound now? In the dark are shadows there at all?
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River Flow 04:50
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RIVER FLOW ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Rawlins Watch the river flow Knowing things will change Winter turns to spring Summer comes again Feel the raging sun hot against my skin Wonder why I was destined to be here? No matter how much time goes by Can’t undo what wasn’t right If only we could know before Hurting someone CHORUS Wherever you are When you fall asleep Let the river slowly take you there Deep into the night Dream a dream for me Crossing off the days… Waiting out the nights I keep losing hope That this will end so I can start over again Endless and so far away How can I go on? It’s gettin’ so dark in here and they keep sayin’ the same thing …the same thing
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Tell Me 04:09
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TELL ME ©2001 Seth Hartman / Donna Rawlins I let you win the fight You insist you’re always right But I prayed For the first time in my life Today Cause I can’t seem to get through to you – oh – CHORUS But whose to blame It’s all the same I can’t let go of you this way I can’t take you back On a new track So tell me… T-Tell me I can’t control your lies You protect your tender pride Someday, you’ll look back at yourself And say “Wish I’d been better to you” –oh— CHORUS But whose to blame It’s all the same You can’t let go of me this way You can’t look back On a new track So tell me… T-Tell me
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WHY 04:13
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WHY ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Donna Rawlins How strange Feeling that I’ve met you before I know, much more than I’ve had the chance to For sure, it takes me to a better place, yeh It’s too bad, life is such a struggle. But we get by, one way or another. Still we’re confused, waiting’ for the mystery to clear, yeh CHORUS So WHY, live a life again Don’t know WHY, need a perfect end Tell me WHY, questions always beckon to me? So close. Is the story ending? Do we have time to watch the dust descending? Gotta get through, straining through the silence to hear, yeh CHORUS BRIDGE I Hear the temple Screaming’ someone’s gonna save me Then will the rosary I cherish Resurrect with me when I die? Tell me why
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Life is What Life Will Be 04:11
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LIFE IS WHAT LIFE WILL BE ©2001 Mark Keefner / Donna Rawlins A whisper away From everything I've dreamed of Pulling back the veils of time Clearing my vision I stare into the eyes Of the best part of my life Sometimes I'm scared That I'm gonna wake up And the miles I've run will disappear Its hard to shake This need to know the answers No time to waste another tear, cause CHORUS Life is what life will be Life is what it will be Life is what life will be Life is what it will be I keep holding on To my own deception Trying to scale another wall I’m beginning to wonder If I'm imagining I control anything at all? Why do I resist When what I want comes easy Don't need to try so hard Time to put away The things that drives me crazy Give it up. Let it rest a while.
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Daeya 04:03
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DAEYA ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Donna Rawlins DAEYA I know your heart is breaking And the mistake you’re scared of making I know, what you’re going through DAEYA, you need a better life But it cuts just like a jagged knife, DAEYA CHORUS DAEYA, love’s never all over DAEYA, hearts take no cover Chasing down the sun DAEYA, hold on, don’t give up DAEYA, you’re so close to it Better days will come Let your dreams grow DAEYA, don’t hide what’s in your heart You knew honestly from the start What, you were headed for DAEYA you made a go of it The truth is, you just never fit, DAEYA CHORUS BRIDGE Tired of hoping for a brighter day When you know that things will never change Touching what you feel inside Knowing you can’t live a lie DAEYA Don’t think anyone will understand Your need to run away from what you have Even though you feel alone Just be strong and trust your heart DAEYA
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Fallin' Down 03:48
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FALLIN’ DOWN ©2001 Eliot Waldhorn / Donna Rawlins Watched you light a cigarette Took a drag with such intent Saw the worry in your eyes Though I’ve asked a thousand times I don’t know what to say to you Though shadows never fail To conceal what love can’t find, oh no Can’t keep everything inside You’d have thought that I’d know better But instead I start to cry Just when you need me to be strong for you CHORUS And I’m feelin’ down, I’m fallin’ down on you And I’m feelin' down, I’m fallin’ down on you Yeh I’m feelin' down, I’m fallin’ down on you Yeh, I’m feelin’ down May as well turn out the light, for now Let the trouble sleep the night Out of answers, out of time Though I feel I let ya down, cause Don’t know how to fix your heart There must still be a reason to believe
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I Think It's Her 06:29
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I THINK IT’S HER ©2001 Robert Feist / Donna Rawlins My Grandmother Lucille… Well she was a piece of work… that’s for sure Because she was tuned into a different station than most people There was a… just a pact that she made with my mother and other people that knew her well, before she died that if there was any way she could come back, that she would. And she would do everything she could to make us realize that it was her. There have been a lot of things that have happened but… My grandmother is around I think she’s still around Sometimes I can see a purple light in my peripheral vision… and I think that’s her. I was feeling a little blue and, I don’t know, I just decided that I was going to start to cleaning up a few things… and …intellectually I guess I thought that that would make me feel better if I tidied things up -- and in the course of straightening things up I ran across this little crossword puzzle book and I opened it up and there was a piece of paper in there that was a bible verse that my grandmother had written on a piece of paper -- and it says something about being at peace and that – that you should feel optimistic because there’s a transformation of this world. It was really interesting. And it was very interesting that it happened to be on a day when I was feeling so blue. And the whole side of the family is that way. I took me until I was a complete adult before I realized that other people weren’t that way. And then I took a long time and sort of ran away from it. But you go full circle in life sometimes And you come back. And you realize there was nothing wrong with the things you learned when you were a kid And... Her respect for the unknown Her… inquisitiveness about the unknown And how she made it ok to – to think differently than “the flock”. I loved that about her and I’d love to tell her that. And… that I really loved her and I didn’t know how to say that when I was so young. My grandmother is around I think she’s still around Sometimes I can see a purple light in my peripheral vision… and I think that’s her.

about

"Under The Moon" / Oceanic Records
Donna Rawlins, AKA Donatella: songwriter, singer & voiceover artist

"Under The Moon", is an esoteric blend of sensuous, reflective vocals
combined with hypnotic rhythms, electronics and acoustic guitars. Simply put, it has great grooves, insightful lyrics and beautiful, haunting melodies.

The electronica style title cut has been featured frequently on "The Young and the Restless" (CBS), "Passions" (NBC), the CBS mini series "And Never Let Her Go," "That’s Life" (CBS)--and the more starkly dramatic acoustic track, “Why” was featured on the WB's hit series, “Dawson’s Creek.”

Including the title track, six of the songs were produced and co-written by Argentinean collaborator, Eliot Waldhorn of e5 Music. Donna also joined her creative talents with other composer/producers: Seth Hartman (whose songs have been featured on "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" & "Dawson’s Creek"); Gold and Platinum award winning engineer/producer, Robert Feist, (Stevie Nicks, Belinda Carlisle, Anita Baker), owner of Ravenswork; and Platinum award winning songwriter/producer Mark Keefner (Tiffany) of Waymo Music. "Shadows Fall" was co-written with Jan Kuehnemund of Vixen, Stacy Robin of Imaginary Friends and Donna Eveland of Drawing Down The Moon.

Prior to this recording, Donna came to Los Angeles by way of Chicago, forming the band, Trial By Fire. Her first solo CD, "Imitation Gold" (featuring songs made famous by Momoe Yamaguchi) was released by Crown Records of Japan. Earlier in her songwriting career Billboard Magazine singled Donna out with awards for "She Keeps Crying" and "I Wanna Be There" from her "Who's Resisting Who" CD, co-written with and produced by Hit Musik Productions' Elliot Anders. Donna then teamed up with Stacy Robin to co-front the band, Imaginary Friends.

"Authentic. Genuine. Less of an act and more about the stuff of real life."
-- Les Reynolds, Indie-Music.com.
"This is one CD worth listening to and one performer worth keeping an eye on."
-- Del Harvey, FMSound.net
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Production, Instrumentation & Co-writers:
Eliot Waldhorn, Mark Keefner, Seth Hartman & Robert Feist

Mastered by Robert Feist, Ravenswork Studios

Additional musicians:
Patrick Bolen, guitars
Stacy Robin, vocals

Photography by Audrey Cox

Music Licensing: Imaginary Friends Music Partners
Beth Wernick - 310 453 8402

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released August 19, 2021

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