Jude Goodwin Songs

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Song Title: Every Time

Lyrics © 2025 Jude Goodwin.
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EVERY TIME

Do you have stars
in your mouth?
she asks
and I laugh.
She’s never tasted
winter like I have,
midnights that linger
for days. Yes,
I tell her. Come see.

Will there be breath?
For a while, I whisper
and blow on her hands,
but you will sing
and the aurora lights
will walk across the ice.

She lets me
put my hands on her.
Will I die? her hair
like snow. Yes,
I tell her. Every time.

Do you have stars
in your mouth?
she asks and I laugh.

Will I die? Yes
I tell her. Every time.

A quiet, atmospheric lyric suited for a sparse ballad or art-song setting.

I wrote this little poem in 2011 when I was first coming out and wondering what it might be like to kiss a woman. It was published on Lily Lit Review which is now inactive but the poem remains online.

Interestingly around that time someone on Tumblr picked the poem up and it had over 12,000 ‘notes.’ Once a friend was travelling the USA and saw the poem on a random bulletin board - they sent me a photo.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Song Title: And there were stars

Lyrics © 2025 Jude Goodwin.
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And there were stars

If I write it down in the book
we'll be sitting at Arriva's forever

ordering bottle after bottle
of chardonnay
while the plump restaurant owner flirts with you
and I flirt with you
and the napkins
and the crystal and the wide platters
full of fat pasta
flirt with you.

We'll never leave the party,
bumping into each other
like balloons all down the alleyways.

I'll write "and then we kissed"
and we'll kiss again, mad with celebration

and then I can go back
to the first pages and see you
cheek in hand, smiling at me
and I'll reread that part wondering
how it could be written.

There might be flowers
opening in a vase or sparrows
hopping around on the sidewalk
or perhaps I've forgotten
the accordion player
and how he paused by our table
to play something Italian
and romantic.

I'll write "and there were stars"
because there were
and when I get to that part
I'll tape the pages
at their corners so the end
will always lead back
to the beginning.

I'll write "and there were stars"
because there were

A lyrical piece about romance, memory, and celebration — suited for jazz, cabaret, or singer-songwriter styles.

What is more fun than a first date - especially when there’s an instant connection. I think these lyrics would be well served with a mandolin in the mix.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Song Title: Say Love

Lyrics © 2025 Jude Goodwin. .
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Say Love

We’re going to need
some ribbon to braid,
or cords nine feet
knotted on each end.
I’ll lay the satin side
around your wrist
and slide my hand
across the smooth truth
of your palm,

bind my heart
for a year and a day,

speak the words say
love in spring and summer and fall
say love in winter
when all can be lost
in the deepest snows
say love and we’ll meet there
blowing on our fingers
and shaking beauty
from the air.

A ceremonial lyric about love, ritual, and devotion — suited for folk, ballad, or singer-songwriter styles.

I wrote this song as part of a hand fasting ceremony with my true love, and I spoke the words at our wedding two years later.

The marriage didn’t last but the words endure.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Song Title: One Hour

Lyrics © 2025 Jude Goodwin. .
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One Hour

If all time
or memory of it
were one hour
and if it began the hour
when I first met you

over coffee and eggs
and ended at the moment
you had your arms around me
and spoke into my hair

"We'll do this again maybe"
and it was a question
a question the rain might ask or the sun
before it tucks the day away

a question with an answer
so inevitable you didn't need to lift
your voice and there

I'm meeting you again
at the curry place, or on the lake trails
and each time you take my hand
it is the first time
and maybe if all time
were like that
there'd be no time for goodbye.

If all time
or memory of it
were one hour
and if it began
the hour when I first met you

if all time were like that
there'd be no time

for goodbye.

A tender lyric about timeless love and memory — suited for ballad or acoustic singer-songwriter styles.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Song Title: Morning is a girl

Morning is a girl in flannelette,
her feet are bare.
She's laughing every time.

Morning loves to see me
on my pillow in the sunlight
or even in the pouring rain

Morning pulls the blankets up
and all my secrets spill
into her hair.

Morning is the story keeper,
the music holder, morning
is a girl in flannelette,
her feet are bare.

Morning pulls the blankets up
and all my secrets spill
into her hair.

A playful lyric with a circus-like tempo — suited for folk-pop or theatrical settings.

This is a quirky little circus tribute to a morning girl.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Song Title: The Moment

There was a moment on a beach
facing a wild ocean in early spring
the sea roaring as it smashed against breakwaters
frothy foam leaping for a white sun

a moment when love stood nearby
with a quiet voice
that could be heard over any great wave,
any mad storm.

And as the wavelets pulled sunlight
across the sands and over my flowered rain boots

love sang and I knew
I'd hear that song by my bedside
at the end of my life

because this was the moment
and I would live here for all time.

love sang and I knew
I'd hear that song by my bedside
at the end of my life
because this was the moment
and I would live here for all time.

A reflective lyric about an ocean-side moment of love and permanence — suited for gentle ballad or art-song settings.

Contact: Interested in using these lyrics? Email jude@goodwinstudios.com.

Jude Goodwin Songs

Song Title: Every Time

Song Title: And there were stars

Song Title: Say Love

Song Title: One Hour

Song Title: Morning is a girl

Song Title: The Moment

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