Love Is So Much More

https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/love-is-so-much-more

Love is something largely misunderstood by many people. Love is not something you just get or something you should expect. Love is a verb more than a feeling. Love grows as we serve. One should not just sit around and expect love to come. Love takes work. Love takes effort. As one gives to others with love, one will feel love. I meet many people in life who are depressed. They believe that going to a counselor and spending tons of money on medicine or therapy is going to fix their problems. Well they may learn something. I do not underestimate that but I do not feel that doing those things is a cure for these people. These people need to step outside of their own lives and start noticing how they can help others. As they do this, they will find the happiness they seek.

Love Is So Much More

Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
Words and Music by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced and arranged By Vinnie Castaldo at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart
Illustrated by Juliana Blokhinska

Verse 1
When your heart is empty
Or you're feeling down
Then step away from the mirror
And start looking around
At all the lonely people
Struggling to survive
You can make a difference in each of their lives

Verse 2
So when your world is lonely
Or when your skies are grey
Then share your love with others
And help them find their way
Then the sun will shine through
And chase the clouds away
And you will be happy
All your days

Chorus
Because Love isn't Love until you give it away
Love is so much more
It's never keeping score
So give your love away
It will be back someday
I promise you
I know it's true

Love Can Remain

https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/love-can-remain
Families are precious. Families are falling apart around the world. I wrote this song because I believe family is the central unit of society. It is the glue that keeps everything together. One must strive with all their heart to keep this unit alive no matter what. The answer to this quest is first commitment. Staying committed no matter what happens. Deciding now that no matter what difficulty lies ahead that a couple will stay together. Forgiveness is vital in marriage. No one is perfect. People make mistakes. The next important point to remember is that love is a verb. Not something you expect your spouse to just hand you like a noun. Love takes effort. It takes work. If one does not love their spouse then one must first look inside and find out what needs to change instead of expecting the spouse to change. Love grows through service. I cannot stress that enough. I repeat, your love will grow as you serve your spouse and others.

Love Can Remain
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Words by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced By Vinnie Castaldo at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart, Vinnie Castaldo and Hugo Cruz Castillo
Illustrated by Juliana Blokhinska

Verse 1
Hearts grown cold as ice
Frozen in time
There's no pulse
Or heartbeat anymore
People so cold
Leaving one another
For something more
Something more

Verse 2
Hearts grown cold as ice
Tearing love apart
Children suffering in the dark
Their dreams are shattered
Nightmares born
You can protect them from this storm

Verse 3
Hearts grown cold as ice
Families torn apart
Society left stumbling in the dark
But there's a way to revive love again
It doesn't have to end

Chorus
With a little forgiveness
Love can go a long long way
And commitment
Can change the night to day
In this big world where nothing stays the same
Your love can remain

Like the sun shines through a storm and washes it away
Love can melt a cold cold heart and bring it back to stay

Face to Face

https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/face-to-face
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/face-to-face-single/id669847118

I wrote the song Face to Face because I wanted to write the perfect love song for how a relationship should be. A relationship where there is one man and one woman who are in love and committed to one another and cherish one another forever.

Face To Face
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced By Vinnie Castaldo at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Illustrated by Juliana Blokhinska

Verse 1
Here we are again standing face to face
All the memories come rushing through me like gravity
Pulling me back to you

Verse 2
Holding you close in my arms again
Reminds me of the way things used to be
When we were together

Verse 3
I wanna stop the clock when I'm with you
but let these dreams go on and on and on
Make them last forever
Make them last forever and ever

Chorus
Cause I have always loved you
There's no one above you
I just wanna hold you till I die
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Please just let it linger
I could never bear to say goodbye
Cause you're all that I want
And you're all that I need
Cause you're all that I want
And you're all that I need
You are a miracle
You are a miracle
To me

Don't Be Afraid of The Night

https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/dont-be-afraid-of-the-night https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-be-afraid-night-single/id661259637

I wrote the song Don't Be Afraid of The Night so that people will know that everyone has light inside them waiting to be discovered and used. As the light is used, it grows bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter. This light is the light of Christ. It can guide one to do good and to avoid evil. As we come unto Christ, our light can grow brighter and brighter until it is eventually perfected.

Don't Be Afraid of The Night
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced By Vinnie Castaldo at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart, Vinnie Castaldo, and Hugo Cruz Castillo
Illustrated by Yulianna Blokinskaya

Verse 1
When the world gets dark
And you feel alone
And there's no light shining
To find your way
Look inside yourself
and find your light
and let it shine
oh let it shine

Verse 2
When the darkness closes in on you
And you cannot see what you're supposed to do
Look inside your heart to the light within and let it shine
Oh let it shine

Verse 3
When your world falls apart
And you're down on your knees and you're begging
For mercy
He will pour his light inside of you
It will fill your life with peace

Chorus
Don't be afraid of the night
Just let your light
Shine like the sun
With a million rays
Let it guide you
Let it advise you
Let it chase all the darkness away
Don't be afraid of the night

We Are Family

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/we-are-family/id652463675?i=652463791&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
http://www.reverbnation.com/loriannthomasstewart
https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/we-are-family

I wrote the song We Are Family because I want everyone on earth to remember that they are part of one big family. We are all brothers and sisters and we are all children of God. We can love each other without reservation. We can forgive everyone and help everyone. That is the main reason why we are here on earth. We are here to learn to love others perfectly and to bless their lives with our service, love and light.

We Are Family
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced By Vinnie Castaldo in the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart, Vinnie Castaldo, Tyce Jones, Simonetta Domenech and Jasmine Domenech

Verse 1
Forgive as you'd be forgiven
Love every child on earth
For everyone is your brother or your sister
Children of royal birth

Verse 2
Take time to love your neighbor
Do not let time pass you by
Without showing your love and affection
Serving and sharing your light

Verse 3
We can follow Christ our Savior
We can follow him in faith
We can love without reservation
Each and everyone

Chorus
We are family
We are one
We are family
We are one
We are family
Children of The King
We are family
We are one

We are Family
We are one
We are his children
Everyone

Time For Peace

https://soundcloud.com/lori-ann-stewart/time-for-peace
http://www.reverbnation.com/loriannthomasstewart
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-for-peace-single/id641221402

The world is in turmoil.  There is much suffering and many calamities but we do not have to be afraid.  We can turn to the Savior for peace.  We can look to him for hope, love, peace, strength, light, truth and joy.  We want Jesus to come again to bring peace.  This is a song about that plea for Jesus to come again.

Time For Peace
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced By Vinnie Castaldo at The Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed By Lori Ann Stewart, Vinnie Castaldo, and Hugo Cruz Castillo

Lyrics
Verse 1
We long for peace
Everyday it seems
People all over
Are fighting
Some kind of battle
But if you will come
To calm the storm and the sea
We stand waiting
Waiting for thy presence

Verse 2
Life has a way of getting the best of us
Hoping for change
Making a plan
For our futures
But it isn't easy
To have a world at peace
War is waging
Somewhere around us

Chorus
Lord we love thee
Come and bring thy peace
Save us
Save us from ourselves
Lord we need thee
Come and bring us hope
Bring love and peace to our lands

There is peace
There is hope
There is Love
Through Christ
There is strength
There is light
There is joy
Through Christ

I Will Be There

We all need friends that are always there for us no matter what.  We need people that love us unconditionally.  People that build us up and help us see the good in ourselves and others.  We need people that help us dream and encourage us to accomplish our dreams.  We also need to be those kind of people so that we can help and bless others.  Relationships do not have to die or end.  Relationships may need work and healing but we are blessed with a healer, Jesus Christ.  He can make everyone and everything new.  He can fix what is broken.  He can find what is lost.  Through him, we can accomplish anything.  This song is about always being there and praying for people so that we can receive power and help from a greater power than we ourselves have to offer them.   https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-will-be-there-single/id615440070

I Will Be There
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced by Vinnie Castaldo at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo

Lyrics
Verse 1
You've been thinking it's too hard
To make things last
To fight
To win
I've been thinking you're so wrong
You've gotta hold on
And fight till the end with me

Verse 2
When you're feelin down
I'll be around
Just call to me
When you're feelin blue
I'll see you through
Just lean on me
And I will be there

Chorus
Always and Forever
I will be there for you
Say a prayer for you
Always and Together
We'll make our dreams come true
Both me and you
We'll reach for the stars
We'll travel so far
We'll reach so high
We touch the sky
Wo-wo-wo
Wo-wo-wo
Wo-wo-wo
oh-oh-oh

He Made It All

I believe in God.  I believe that he created all things in heaven and all things on earth.  I believe that all of his creations are beautiful including all people. I know that God loves everyone and that he loves all of his creations.  I know that God wants us to be happy and he has blessed us with his creations.

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/he-made-it-all/id605395509?i=605395835&ign-mpt=uo%3D4


He Made It All
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Word and Music Written by Lori Ann Stewart
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas By Vinnie Castaldo


Lyrics
Verse 1
He made more than all the mountains
The valleys, hills, and plains
The deserts and the forests
The islands of the seas
He made more than all the oceans
 The rivers and the seas
More than lakes that glisten
And all the gentle streams

Verse 2
He made more than all the winters
The flowers in the spring
More than summer evenings
and colorful autumn leaves
He made more than all the planets
That fill this universe
More than all creation
In heaven and on earth

Chorus
He made the sun
He made the moon
Even the stars that fill the night
He made everything and everyone
You and I
He made it all

Sing Second Time through after chorus and repeat chorus
Everything is beautiful
He made it all
Everyone is beautiful

Broken Heart

We all experience pain at some time in our lives.  We go through things that are not easy and very difficult.  Sometimes we lose loved ones through death or divorce or just broken relationships.  The loss is hard and sometimes we have to experience pain before we heal.  The good thing is that we can eventually heal and get over our loss especially if we let Jesus take away the pain for us and replace it with perfect love and peace.  The first song, Broken Heart is about losing someone.  The song describes how a person may feel before they heal.  The secret is to not give up but to keep going until one has healed all the way or at least learned to live with the loss.  Happiness comes through the Savior Jesus Christ.  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broken-heart/id600110300?i=600110372&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Broken Heart
Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved
Music by Lori Ann Stewart and Vinnie Castaldo
Lyrics by Lori Ann Stewart
Performed by Lori Ann Stewart
Produced at the Tone Factory in Las Vegas by Vinnie Castaldo

Lyrics
Verse 1
Every time I close my eyes
I only see your face
I only hear your voice
I only feel your embrace
This empty heart of mine
Is only filled with pain
Only your memory
Remains

Verse 2
I wipe my tears away
I try to dry my eyes
But the tears keep falling
Falling like rain
Until these skies are empty and dry
And nothing's falling
At all

Verse 3
They say that time heals all wounds
That lovers just leave their scars
But this heart is scattered
Torn all apart
The pieces missing
Broken and worn
Like battered houses
In a storm
Chorus

This heart is broken
Torn all apart
These dreams are shattered
Lost in the dark