Love & Romance Archives - Pamela Holm 1960-2019

While He was Sleeping There with You

heather — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:43:14 +0000

I found enough drafts of “hurtin’ songs” in Pamela’s manuscripts to make a file of them. She wrote for her own personal therapy, and most won’t get published. By the time (2013) she wrote this gem, however, she could distill her pain into a few words, a good hook, an essential bridge, and the clever device of addressing the “other woman”. Chords are mine, but as an old bandmate observed, Pam and I had a similar sense of harmony. – HH

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Here’s Miranda Lever singing it, as part of a project to get Pam’s songs out into the world, off paper and onto video so people can hear them, and maybe sing them, too. Sheet music is below the video.

Sheet music

While he was Sleeping there with You by Pamela Holm, sheet music PDF Download

Lyrics

While he was sleeping there with you

It’s been hard to say I’m sorry
for what I had to do.
I somehow saw within your face
a hidden dream come true.
I couldn’t stay forever
but did you have a clue
I’d be walking away
while he was sleeping there with you.

I had no way to tell you
’bout how bad it could be.
But you are not me either
and that much I could see.
I was drawing strength within myself
but his mind was blind to truth,
that I could walk away
while he was sleeping there with you.

I hear a cry of innocence
I hear a cry of pain
I hear a cry of “How could this
be coming round again?”
I haven’t got your answers,
and my own are much too few,
all I can say is that I had to go
while he was sleeping there with you.

All I can say is that I had to go
while he was sleeping there with you.

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A Recipe for Love

heather — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:28:13 +0000

They say that if you’re looking for love, you should make a list of what you want in an ideal partner.

So Pam made it into sultry song.

She never, to my knowledge, recorded it. I found it handwritten in a notebook along with many other original songs that amazed me as I emptied her apartment.

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I asked Miranda Lever to sing “A Recipe for Love” for a video.

Sheet Music

A Recipe for Love by Pamela Holm, sheet music Download

Lyrics

A Recipe for Love

A recipe for love, that’s what I’m looking for,
A recipe for love.
I want to find me a real yummy cookin’ one
So I’m writing me a recipe for love.

I want a man who knows how to flavor sweetness in my mouth
With depth and richness that can bring me to my knees.
I want a man who knows how to hold my soul within his hands,
And breathe on me life-giving breath please.

A man who knows hunger,
A man who knows satisfaction,
A man who knows how to join me in harmony,

I want a man who knows how to carry fire without getting burnt
Cause fire’s what you’ll be getting from me.

I know you’re out there
I feel your heart getting closer
I know you’re lookin’ for me.
So when your hunger is ready for satisfaction,
You’ve got my recipe.

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Surrender (1990)

heather — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:52:46 +0000

From a rough cassette recording Pamela made for copyright purposes, dated August 1, 1990. That was the summer between the two years of her Music Therapy course at Capilano College (now Capilano University) in North Vancouver.

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In Your Arms / Magic Music (1990)

heather — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:45:29 +0000

From a rough tape made for copyrighting, recorded August 1, 1990. She wasn’t sure exactly what to call this song…

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Thinking ’bout You (1993)

heather — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:09:47 +0000

Another original song from Pamela’s 1993 demo tape, “Just a Nibble/Sampler”

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Apple Honey Land (1989)

heather — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:05:21 +0000

Another original song from Pamela’s 1993 demo tape, Just a Nibble/Sampler.

An earlier recording

This song was on a “copyrighting tape” Pamela recorded for herself on August 1, 1990. Perhaps no one besides myself in archivist mode will care to listen to this version, but I add it here for completeness. It was the first song on the cassette tape, and the beginning sounds like the tape has degraded in the last 30 years. Even so, I find it interesting to compare the two recordings and hear how the song evolved as Pam performed it.

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Come Dance with Me (2019)

heather — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:30:14 +0000

In the last few years of her life, Pam was concentrating on building her music therapy practice. Singing in the Cantata Singers of Ottawa had been giving her a high standard musical outlet, but she wanted more: to take her own compositions to the next level through performance. So in early 2019 when she wrote two songs and rehearsed them with a pianist and a clarinetist, then performed them at the Unitarian Fellowship in April, it was hugely satisfying for her. She was resolved to find ways to do more such ensemble work in the future.

Fortunately we have recordings of the two songs, and the script of her talk that day, “Inside the mind of the composer“.

Music by Pamela Holm
Lyrics: Mory Ghomshei & Pamela Holm

Pamela Holm, voice
Adrian Cosstick, clarinet
Joe MacDonald, piano

Performed at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa, April 2019

The lyrics are adapted from a book from an old friend of hers who wrote stories in the Sufi tradition.

See also her talk that day, “Inside the mind of the composer” and another song, Hearts are made for Sweethearts.

Video

The first few measures are missing in this recording.

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Hearts are made for Sweethearts (2019)

heather — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:18:08 +0000

An exciting musical project for Pam in spring 2019: to perform her own songs with other accomplished musicians. She rehearsed and performed two new songs for the Unitarian Fellowship, along with a talk, “Inside the mind of the composer” She was looking forward to doing more of the same, but sadly it didn’t happen. I’m so glad this recording was made.

Music: Pamela Holm
Lyrics: Mory Ghomshei and Pamela Holm

Pamela Holm, voice
Adrian Cosstick, clarinet
Joe MacDonald, piano

Performed at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa, April 2019

See also her talk that day, “Inside the mind of the composer” and another song, Come Dance with Me.

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