Amy Serrata

by Amy Serrata

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about

Singer + Songwriter, Amy Serrata creates music intended to heal and bring people together. Amy’s interest in singing arose at an early age listening to the sounds of Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong to name a few. She sung in choir and started singing lessons at the age of 10 years old when she attended Nido De Aguilas, an international school in Santiago, Chile. As she got older she sung in several gospel choirs and through that experience continued to develop her vocal improvisational skills. Through college she studied Illustration with an emphasis in Fine Arts. During this time she took a break from singing, little did she know how much she would come to miss it. In 2006, Amy started singing with the Stanford University Gospel Choir. A couple years later a friend of hers encouraged her to create her own music. She let that thought simmer and shortly after began to improvise using poetry that she had previously written. The melodies started to naturally form and she then worked with producers: Hyp, HMD & Nyambezi, Willie Norwood to collaborate with for her first self titled album, ‘Amy Serrata’. Amy is currently focused on performing, working on her next album and writing songs for other artists.

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credits

released 04 November 2008
Executive Producer: Amy Serrata
Co-Producer: Willie Norwood
Recorded by: Hyp and Dragan Petrovic
Mixed by: Hyp, Dragan Petrovic and Amy Serrata
Engineer: Dragan Petrovic
Recorded at: Potrero Hill Studios
Mastered by: Michael Romanowski
Photography and graphic design by: www.designthatkills.com
Producers: Hyp, HMD, Nazelah
A&R: Geraldine Convento for Feel My Grooves
Vocal Production: Willie Norwood for Knockout Vocal Studio and KO-Motions Productions
All songs are written and produced by: Amy Serrata for Born To Create ASCAP

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Track Name: Monday Morning
Yawwwn Alarms ringin should I get outta bed?

Good morning
Good day
Spreading sunshine
Everywhere day
Repeat

Easy breezy like Monday morning
So tired I can’t seem to get out of bed
Rollin in the sheets and day dreamin
How sweet life truly is

I try to rub the sleep outta my eyes
But I don’t remember what day it is
Time is flyin and I can’t keep track
Wonderin why I can’t get out of my sack

Another morning
Another day
Another Monday
Annother day
Repeat

Another lazy dazy Monday morning
Having dreams dancin in my head
Hearing breakfast cookin in my kitchen
Almost tempted to get out of bed

Smell the waffles cookin in my kitchen
Hot chocolates brewin on the stove
Your telling me breakfast is ready
But I can’t seem to open up my eyes

Another morning
Another day
Another Monday
Annother day
Repeat

Sleepin thru the remainder of the day
Tryin to wash all my cares away
You don’t seem to mind I don’t hear you call
“Breakfast is ready!”

Aroma seems to creep into my bedroom
Mesmerized by your love and care
I hear your footsteps comin closer
Its you bringin me some breakfast in bed

Another morning
Another day
Another Monday
Annother day
Repeat

Its a Monday morning its another day
Repeat

An unforgettable Monday morning
My mornings aren’t so bad with you
You melt away these morning blues
I almost feel I’ll never be alone
I never was a Monday person

Until I spent a morning with you
Another Monday another day
A new chance to say ooooooooo!

A new day a new day a new day a new way a new day!
Track Name: Hello World
Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?
Repeat

Out in the big wide open
Open for so much laughter
Takin chances on the unknown
And entering into the big bad world!

Vulnerable and open for attack
I’m doing things that I lacked
Goin for my dreams hopin for the unseen
And loving every minute of it all!

Out in the big wide open
Open for so much failure
Takin the risk of fallin down
While not knowin how to do it all

Into this big bad world
I often feel so alone
Wonderin if anyone cares
About the dreams I’m about to pursue!

Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?
Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?

Learnin about the hard school of knocks
Seein what I need to learn so I can rock
Life is a classroom where I’m tested
I wont really learn until I’m invested

Big and bad though it might look
The world has so much that’s been over looked
Seein things I never saw before
Reminds me how much the world has been restored

Things might seem scary at first
But theres always something way worse
Entering into the big bad world is inevitable
But I’ll never learn if I remain in your world

Into the big wide open
Open for so much laughter
Takin the risk of fallin down
And entering into the big bad world!

Into the vast unknown world
I’m really not the only girl
Sometimes it seems I’m alone in the sea
A whole another world I haven’t seen

Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?
Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?

A man is not an island
If I just began to swam it
The world would not look so big
And maybe I’d learn how to give

Sometimes the lessons we need
Are the ones we can’t even see
The big bad world will fail to agree
With the person we’ve chosen to be

If I shared the person I was
And I wasn’t afraid if I’d please
Things would open up in the world
And a whole another me would just be

Learning how to be in the world
While not selling my own soul
Taking the risk of loosing myself
So I make sure I check in often with myself

Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?
Hello world here I am today
What do you have for me today?

What do you have for me today?
Hello world hello world its my world yeah!
Its my world its your world
Its our world its our world
Hello world hello world
Track Name: Skin
Skin its just skin
Skin we live in
Skin its just skin
Skin we live in

Skin you see it on tv
Skin its coming out the streets
Skin the medias obsessed
Skin can’t we just give it all a rest?

Skin its just skin
Skin we live in
Skin its just skin
Skin we live in

Skin its plastered in our press
Skin our bodys are a mess
Skin the medias obsessed
Skin can’t we give it all a rest?

Skin we’re defined by our weight
Skin why can’t we be the same?
Skin its all just a show
Skin lets give up and grow!

Skin its just skin
Skin we live in
Skin its just skin
Skin we live in

Skin I am not this skin
Skin I might never be thin
Skin I’m ok with myself
Skin I wont degrade myself.

Skin its just skin
Repeat
Track Name: Lets
Lets make music
Lets make life
Lets make music
Let me live on tonight

Lets make memories
Lets share ourselves
Lets tell stories
Let me live on tonight

Lets share music
Lets share life
Let me bare
My soul tonight
Repeat

Lets take chances
Lets explore it all
Lets see new things
Let me see it all tonight

Lets be real
Lets share ourselves
Lets be frank
Let me say it all tonight

Lets make music
Lets make life
Lets make music
Let me live on tonight

Lets be nice
Lets be sweet
Lets be honest
Let me bear my soul tonight

Lets make music
Lets make life
Lets make music
Let me live on tonight

Lets make music
Lets make life
Lets make music
Let me live on tonight

Lets lets share life
Lets share life
Repeat
Track Name: My Baby My Child
My baby
My child
My love
My own

You’ve been so good to me
Why can’t they set you free?
It’d mean so much to me?
If they just set ya free.
Repeat

My sweet my child my little one
I’d love to see you be so free
Like you used to be
It’d mean so much to me

My baby
My child
My love
My own

You’ve been so good to me
Why can’t they set you free?
It’d mean so much to me?
If they just set ya free.
Repeat

Oh baby why can’t they see that your face is all I need?

To hold your hold would be so grand
It’d be so sweet to me to see your face at last
Would mean the world to me!

Why can’t they set you free?
It’d mean so much to me?
If they just set ya free.

My baby
My child
My love
My own

You’ve been so good to me
Why can’t they set you free?
It’d mean so much to me?
If they just set ya free.
Repeat

Why can’t they set you free?
Free free free.
Track Name: Teach Me
Teach me to see
What you need me to see
Teach me to show
What you need me to show

Cuz I’m just your child
Your little one
Won’t you let me
Know what I need to become?
Repeat

Teach me to say
What you need me to say
Teach me to be
What you want me to be.

Cuz I’m just your child
Your little one
Won’t you let me
Know what I need to become?
Repeat

Teach me to know
What you need me to know
Teach me to learn
What you need me to learn

Cuz I’m just your child
Your little one
Won’t you let me
Know what I need to become?
Repeat

Teach me to feel
Like you need me to feel
Teach me to love
What you want me to love

Cuz I’m just your child
Your little one
Won’t you let me know
What I need to become?
Repeat

I’m just your child
I’m just your child
I’m just your child
Your little one
Your little one
Your little one
Track Name: Soul Food
What you do
Has a domino
Effect on you

What you say
Has the power
To take you thru

What you make
Can often break
You in two

What you take
From your peers
Can drive you to tears

Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Repeat four times

How you dress
Can only impress
So far

What you prove
Prevents
You from taking it far

What you do has
A domino
Effect on you

What you are
Has the power
To feed your soul

Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Repeat four times

What you do
Has a domino
Effect on you

What you say
Triple threats
To shake you in two

What you make
Can show you
Into your soul

What you are
Has the power
To feed your soul

Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Repeat four times

What you covet
Can show you
What you love

What you do
Has an effect
On your soul today

What you think
Manifests
On your soul so pray

What you continue
To do
Will be your soul

Chorus with harmony:
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Be careful what you feed your soul
Repeat four times
Track Name: Rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted

I’m coming back to my roots
Seeing so much proof
That what I’m made of
Are such strong roots

Rooted in your goodness
And I’m starting to see my purpose
So rooted
So rooted
Repeat

When life gets me down
And I’m more lost than found
I’m reminded I’m made of
Such strong roots

Rooted in your goodness
And I’m starting to see my purpose
So rooted
So rooted
Repeat

Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted

When I think I’m alone
And I feel so unloved
I’m reminded I’m made of
Such strong roots

Rooted in your goodness
And I’m starting to see my purpose
So rooted
So rooted
Repeat

Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted
Rooted so rooted

Rooted
Rooted
Roooted
Rooted
Rooted
Roooted

Rooted in your goodness
And I’m starting to see my purpose
So rooted
So rooted
Track Name: In My Garden
This is my garden
I gotta tend it on my own
Leave me be to see
My flowers bloom

I’m tending to my garden
Just watch them grow
And you’ll be so surprised
To see what they’ll show

What you will plant
You will often grow
What you will reap
You will often sow

Reds
Blues
Silvers
And hues
I’ve got a garden full of them too
Repeat twice

In my garden there are weeds
But if I tend to them every day
I can keep up with the strays
Ripin the bad and keepin the good

I need sunshine every day
Feelin so incredible in every way
Just give me some time
And I’ll continue to shine

Just a little bit of love
Will go a long long long long way
These seeds of mine
They are so divine!

Adlib:
What you plant
You will grow
What you reap
You will sow
Plant your seeds
And watch it grow
When it sprouts
Nobody knows!
Nobody knows nobody knows
Whats in my garden your in my garden!
Your in my garden, my garden

I can’t sit back in my life
Or I just might miss
All the my flowers
So I tend to my garden
And I watch them bloom

I plant my seeds every single day
Hoping for a new little flower every day
These rays continue to display
Their beauty all around you and me

I continue to watch my garden
To see the fruit of my labor
And for something to grow
When it sprouts nobody knows

Reds
Blues
Silvers
And hues
I’ve got a garden full of them too
Repeat twice

Get out of my garden
Get out of my life
I don’t want you spoilin
This part of my life

If you don’t plan to tend
Then ya betta plan to mend
These flowers need ya care
So spread your sunshine everywhere!

Outro:
In my garden
Your in my garden
In my garden
Your in my garden!
Track Name: Yes To Life
I choose
To live
With myself

I choose
To be
All I can be

I choose
To let go
Of my fears

I choose
To say
Yes to life

It’s a brand new day
I have the choice
To make it ok!
Repeat two times

I choose
To forgive
My enemies

I choose
To live
On bended knees

I choose
To live
So powerfully

I choose
To freely
Be me

It’s a brand new day
I have the choice
To make it ok!
Repeat twice

I choose
To give
All I can give

I choose
To share
My own load

I choose
To lend
A hand in need

I choose
To be
A friend to the foe

Livin life with people ain’t easy
Don’t expect for them to change
But its up to you
To see it thru
And today I say
Yes to life
Yes to life

It’s a brand new day
I have the choice
To make it ok!

I choose
To live
For today

I choose
To be
Happy now

I choose
To come
Here now

I choose
To take
Part in life

It’s a brand new day
I have the choice
To make it ok!

I choose
To live my life
Without anger

I choose
To work it out
Even if it hurts

I choose
To let go
Of all my stories

I choose
To live a life
Transformed

It’s a brand new day
I have the choice
To make it ok!

I choose
To not let what others say
Effect me

I choose
To forgive
My enemies

I choose
To love
Everyone

I can choose
And so can you
You can choose
We choose to choose

I can choose
And so can you
You can chose
A brand new day

I can choose
And so can y ou
You can choose
We choose to choose

I can choose
And so can you
You can choose
A brand new day

We can choose a brand new day
We can choose a brand new day
Track Name: Feel For Me
Feel for meeeee

Why can’t you be excited for me
Its all such a part of me
The world would open up for me
If you could only seeeeeeeeeeeee (this has harmonies)

Why can’t you stop and listen to me
Open your eyes and then you’d see
All that I am today
A reflection of you (this has harmonies)

Won’t you cry for me
For just a little while
Won’t you sigh for me
For just a little while
Won’t you laugh for me
For just a little while
Wont you feel for me
For just a little while

Why do you always worry about me
Thinking I’ll never ever make it
But if you’d really see me thru
Then maybe I’d winnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Why can’t you support my dreams
Seeing its my destiny
It all comes so naturally
Music is my fate

Won’t you cry for me
For just a little while
Won’t you sigh for me
For just a little while
Won’t you laugh for me
For just a little while
Won’t you feel for me
For just a little while

Why can’t you see me for me?
Stop trying to change me
Start accepting me for who I am
I’ll never change for you

Why can’t you get up outta yaself?
Tryingn to see yourself in me
Start loving me for me
Cuz I’ll never be youuuuuuuuuu

Won’t you cry for me
For just a little while
Won’t you sigh for me
For just a little while
Won’t you laugh for me
For just a little while
Won’t you feel for me
For just a little while
Track Name: Love Another
You can’t love anothah
If you can’t love ya brotha

You can’t love ya mistah
If you can’t love ya sistah

You can’t love ya mises
If you don’t give her kisses

Love yourself first
Then you can love another
Love yourself first
Love yourself first

Love yourself first
Love yourself first
Love yourself then you can love another
Love yourself then you can love another
Repeat

You can love your neighbor
If you can trust yourself

You can love a stranger
If you can sense no danger

You can love yourself
If you can be yourself

Love yourself first
Then you can love another
Love yourself first
Love yourself first

Love yourself first
Love yourself first
Love yourself then you can love another
Love yourself then you can love another
Repeat

Scat:
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love yourself
Love em all
Repeat twice

You can love your family
If you define yourself

You can love your baby
If you prepare yourself

You can love yourself
If you just let yourself

Love yourself first
Then you can love another
Love yourself first
Love yourself first

Love yourself first
Love yourself first
Love yourself then you can love another
Love yourself then you can love another
Repeat

Scat
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love ya bro
Love ya sis
Love ya ma
Love ya pa
Love love love love
Love em all

Love yourself first
Love yourself first
Love yourself then you can love another
Love yourself then you can love another
Repeat

Scat:
Love love
Love love
Love love
Love love
Track Name: This Is Me
Fake it take it be your doll
Break it starve it show it all
Shake it date it be your doll
Force it love it be it all!

This is me this is me this is me
Why can’t they see?

I’m not gonna fake it
I’m not gonna take it
I’m not gonna be your doll!

This is me this is me this is me
Why can’t they see?
This is me this is me this is me
This is me why can't they see?

I’m not gonna fake it
I’m gonna take it
I’m not gonna be your doll!

This is me this is me this is me
Why can't they see?
This is me this is me this is me
Why can't they see?