One of my favorite holiday songs...and boy it's long!!!  I sang 6 of the 8 verses of the oringal version.  I hope you enjoy!

 Wishing everybody a happy Thanksgiving!  Stay tuned for info on Holiday gigs in December, as well as posts from my appearance on the Hurricane Radio Station's show "Life In Your 20s"

I was thinking about how strange it is that most love songs out there are either about the very beginning of a relationship, or the end (breaking up). But the truth of the matter is that a very large percentage of the world is in serious, long-term relationships. Think of all the married people, boyfriends and girlfriends, etc. So why are there hardly any songs about this hugs population? That question is what inspired me to write this song. I'm in a serious relationship, and anybody in one of those knows that you are going to fight. It doesn't mean your going to break up, but fights happen.

I was reading the wonderful book "Angela's Ashes," and there is a passage where the author says that when his mother was mad at his father, she would refer to him as "your father" instead of by his name. I thought that was a perfect symbol of anger, and I use this idea as the focal point of my song.

This is a very rough recording, but I hope you get a good enough idea of what the song will sound like soon!

Lyrics for "Will You Call Me Baby Tonight"

Verse
Saying words
They’re not what I mean to say
You respond
With more words that don't belong
And now the things that's worrying me

Chorus
Will you call me baby tonight
Or will you call me by my name
Are we still in this fight
Have we decided who is gonna take the blame
I know we're gonna be alright
But I want to know
Will you call me baby tonight

Verse
I can't say
What made me go off that way
You've no clue
What the hell got into you
I wish I knew what you were thinking now

Chorus
Will you call me baby tonight
Or will you call me by my name
Are we still in this fight
Have we decided who is gonna take the blame
I know we're gonna be alright
But I want to know
Will you call me baby tonight

Bridge
You’re the only one
I never want to give up
Now the only question is
When are we gonna make up

Chorus
Will you call me baby tonight
Or will you call me by my name
Are we still in this fight
Have we decided who is gonna take the blame
I know we're gonna be alright
But I want to know
Will you call me baby
I want to know
Will you call me baby
I want to know
Will you call me baby tonight

This week, the new Kohl's Holiday commercial began airing. It is a very cute spot with different vignettes of people opening their holiday gifts, and enjoying them. I have the honor of singing the song "He Loves She Loves" on the commercial! While watching "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" on the Food Network, my mom saw the commercial. She called me and I don't think I ever heard her sound more proud and exited for me. My parents have often been the only two attendants in an otherwise empty room where I'm performing. Mom and Dad, thanks for sticking with me this whole time and I hope I continue to make you proud!

This song was inspired by my feelings about living in a very crowded world. Especially living in NYC, there are people around me, very close to me almost all of the time. In the subway, on the street, in restaurants, we are cramped together. Yet, one of the biggest complaints I hear from people, and one that I always have myself when I move to a new place is, "Its so hard to meet people!" How can this be when there are people everywhere?

I started to realize that everybody seems to make a point of staying in his or her own "zone" when in public these days. We have our headphones on; we are talking on our cell phones, on our laptops, etc. We seem to make it clear to the world around us that we don’t want to be bothered-we want our space. I believe that we stay in our own "zones" so that we have the feeling of personal space, even though we have no personal space at all. Because of this, I think that crowded places have become very isolating.

"Hello" Lyrics

Everything goes, everything changes
They go with the flow, and I don't mind
They tap their toes while the radio changes
The songs are different, but they keep their time

Everyone's soft, everyone whispers
I think they shout when no ones there
They tap their toes while their headphones are in
Under their shoes, so no one, nobody hears

And I don't care that people don't talk
They don't look and I don't stop
But I get to thinking that I probably know somebody who knows you
But everybody goes with the flow so I won't Hello you

I'm sitting on the local with a New York Times and a cup of coffee
It roles from the suburbs to the streets
We'll do it again the other way, at the end of the day
And we'll lay our bags to block the empty seats

And I don't care that people don't talk now
They don't look and I don't stop now
But I get to thinking that I’d probably like to get to know you
But everybody goes with the flow so I won't Hello you

They tap their toes, they tap their toes
They tap their toes, but nobody knows

And I don't care that people don't talk
They don't look and I don't stop
But I'm thinking it's a loss for us
And a tragedy too
That everybody goes with the flow
Everybody goes with the flow
Everybody goes with the flow
So I won't Hello you

Never ever get to know you
Even if I really like to
Never ever get to know you

 This song is about how I felt when I was living in Montreal.  At 18 years of age, I moved from New York up to Canada to attend Concordia Universtiy.  Unlike most college freshman, I didn't live in a dorm but in an apartment building.  It was quite an adjustment and there were times when I felt lonely and lost.  I wrote this song a few years after my stay in Montreal, recollecting how that time felt for me.  Aaron Mirman of Duotone Audio Group and I are still in the production phase with this song.  I hope you enjoy!

Produced and recorded by Duotone Audio Group's Aaron Mirman, music and lyrics by Jessica Lewis. We're hoping this song lands a commercial spot soon!

Instrumentation: Piano, bells, acoustic guitar, electric bass, drumkit, trombone,trumpet, human clapping

Lyrics with chord progression

Intro: F,G, F/G

Verse 1:
C F
Its ther kind of day I used to keep my head down
C F
Walking in the rain and the waters creeping up my jeans
C F
Its the kind of day I used to face the ground
E- F
Now I can't keep away from looking at the people
F
Cuz I, cuz I, cuz I

Chorus:
C D-/C
I'm looking for you
E-/C D-/C
I'm looking for you
C D-/C F G F/G
I'm looking for you

Verse 2:
C F
Widsom comes from living I'm learning that the hard way
E- F
Cuz I didn't know I loved you untill I told you to leave
C
And the rain is getting harder
F
And the puddles getting thicker
E-
But I don't worry about the water
F
I just keep looking at the people
F
Cuz I. cuz I, cuz I,

Chorus 2:
C D-/C
I'm looking for you
E- D-/C
I'm looking for you
C
I'm looking for you
D-/C E- D-/C
at the T at the drugstore at Crazy Crazy Doughs
C
I'm looking for you
D-/C E-
On the street on the elevator escelator
F G G/F
And the floor it takes me to
A-
I'm looking for you

Bridge:
Bb A-
And I know it's all in vein
Bb A-
You think I'de only hurt you again
D- C/E
But a girls got to dream, a girls got to dream
F G G/F
A girls got to dream

Verse 3:
C F
Well it's the kind of day I used to keep my head down
C F
Walking in the rain and the waters creeping up my jeans
C/G F
Oh it's the kind of day I never ever missed you
E- F
Now I do, Oh I keep looking at the people

Cuz I, cuz I, cuz I

Chorus 3/vamp:
C D-/C
I'm looking for you
E-/C D-/C
I'm looking for you
C D-/C
I'm looking for you

...FADE OUT