DESCRIPTION:
"When The Well Dries Up" and original song performed by Singer/Songwriter, Randy Niles for the 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Contest.

Video shot by: Randy Niles
Video Edited by: Randy Niles
Stomp Drum: Made by https://www.footdrums.com/
Frog on Desk: Hippity ( touring buddy and "real" imaginary friend)

Shot in a roof hallway corridor (sorry for the wind and hallway doors slamming) on an iPhone 6 and Canon t4i.
Edited with iMovie & Adobe After Effects.

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Lyrics:
“When The Wells dries up”
Verse I
We’ve been running so long we’ve missed the sun. 
Wanna leave this place exactly as we’ve come 
Hardened leaves of gold they cover our sky 
Soon a cloud of white will cover that deep lie. 

Chorus 
Well this home, we’ve made just for us 
It gets harder to keep, it turns to dust 
All the love and pain it seems to go first
When the well dries up there will be no reason to thirst. 

Verse II
Taken all this time to right my wrongs
Had I done it all again you’d still of been born 
Drink from the of hands, which do not lie
For my time here is close to being expired. 

Chorus 
Well this home, we’ve made just for us
It gets harder to keep, it turns to dust
All the love and pain it seems to go first
When the well dries up there will be no reason to thirst.

Verse III
There are times when I see her in your face 
Maybe one day you’ll figure out that place. 
They say time will heal all those sorrowed wounds
Best for us if you stay until they bloom.  

Chorus
Well this home, we’ve made just for us
It gets harder to keep, it turns to dust
All the love and pain it seems to go first
When the well dries up there will be no reason to thirst.


Short Bio:
It can be a rarity these days to find artists who possess the type of sincerity, integrity, and connection to their craft which today, folks so desperately crave in a post patient world. NYC based, Crooner and Edgy Folk songwriter, Randy Niles, is more than an exception to this model...he is truly the rule.

Creating a fundamental platform for honest songwriting steeped in Folk/Soul & Blues, Niles digs his roots deep into you with earnest storytelling, which seems to deliver an equal dose of mind, body and spirit. His voice explores ranges that soar from sweet falsettos, to scraping the ground with just enough edge to keep any listener straddling the genre divide.