Singer and Songwriter

 I added The Beast of Heaven (at the bottom) song because I felt it was smart. I was having trouble recording Simplicity. A bit of change in the lyrics to It Wasn't Going to Change as well about a girl leaving a marriage that she entered to abandon abuse in her home. The entire updated playlist so far is here: Soundcloud I remember my mom tying me to the cellar stairs when I was still in diapers. My aunt would come over and see me and be in tears and my mother would talk her thinking it was okay. My sister would come home from school and want to cry and my mother would teach her to ignore me. Later it would be a closet and then no Novocaine at the dentist; it would make me strong she would say. This is where I came up with this song. I may make some minor changes down the road. Photo courtesy NY Times Ten Songs for Album I Am Loved The Rain Rich in War (title song) Life Before You Am I Awake Simplicity It Wasn't Going to Change (new as well) Way Too Early

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Well I have my five required songs for the ISSA award nomination for 2020-2021 (not sure if that's this year 2020 to submit or the one after at this point). I'm also working towards and album this year coming up. I've wanted a CD for a while now and for the opportunity to put it into record stores. I've made milestones along the way and now this is one I'm working towards. Now I just have to work on the songs I have to get them very ready, and let my mind wander to get two more songs written; I haven't composed two of them yet so they're not posted at the Playlist for this album. Follow along at this playlist I just made for the album to see the progress. Also you can hear some of it at my podcast at iHeart radio where I discuss how my emotional life journey intertwines with the production of my music. Looking forward to the challenge  - my 2020 goal. Way Too Early

Hello! I wrote this tonight on my way home, feeling unsure of myself again. Oh, oh.... I hate those moments but I know they have to exist because I'm not perfect. I feel at times that I'm a bit too vulnerable and that's mine are so strong. But I'm not sure to this. Check out the song. There may be some changes. Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy from Pexels Way Too Early Verse I left home way too early I was just a kid I didn't realize My mind would have to go too Chorus Oh little girl don't worry You can comfort yourself again It's not your fault It's your life journey Verse It all comes around to the beginning where it started out Bridge The little girl Sitting on the knee Wasn't taught to say please Just let her run Just let her go Chorus Oh little girl don't worry You can comfort yourself again It's no

I put together this beautiful composition, " Life Before You, " because I was able to with Minor2Go loops; he is so fantastic and a life saver. When I feel I need to work on a project or express myself in some way, where I can only use my hands so much, and my brain at times, his music brings relief and construction. It's so pretty. I had been thinking about writing a song before my ex where I felt so loved and free as a child and wanted to share this experience. So here it is! This is also dedicated to my grandma Ida Finnila within her playlist of songs when I felt the love in my life. Life Before You by Lori Jean Finnila with Minor2Go music loops Photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels Verse There was life before you I remember this after so long But it's never too late Chorus I can see myself now and how much I was loved by those gone I wish you only knew

This is a song of a young girl feeling safe from her daddy in life. Photo by Nicolas Postiglioni from Pexels I Am Loved Verse The stadium is full I look around everyone is in motion I observe I feel fine Chorus I'm confident in this place my beauty is in tact this moment I know I am loved Verse My surroundings feel protected each step, each move I make I'm watched to my privileged state of who I am Chorus Verse Each song that plays in my mind brings in the comfort of night I need no one around me all I need is inside of me Bridge Father shows me love passed down from my ancestors above the one who is so important showed me who I am at this moment Chorus

Special thanks to @Minor2GoMusic at Facebook for the loops for this song. Rich in War (at Soundcloud (draft) free download Dedicated to mémère Ida Finnila Photo by Yvon Maurice. Lyrics: Rich in War by Lori Jean Finnila Verse She didn't tell me how bad religion was She wanted to be a man it's was so very very sad Chorus She was rich in war all she had to do was move her paintbrush Verse I made a deal with the devil He came down to me He said he wanted to please I said stop this is what he did to me Bridge He came down on his knees Wanted to please my mind went away in every way Chorus She was rich in war all she had to do was move her paintbrush Verse the men were so bad so really really bad they were settled so really really settled Chorus She was rich in war all she had to do was move her paintbrush It was so sad so really really sad so really really sad

Please vote for my song up now at WTYT 960 AM Rock Station as I try to get on the Billboard Charts!! Song will be officially released April 9, 2020 digitally. Working on a professional video to submit to MTV. Saving up my Credit Card Rewards for this!! lol Enjoy.

I'm #2 never in my life on a radio channel!!!!!!!!! Yeah! The French love me. MPG Canada Radio Charts Thank you Baillargeon and Roulea ancestors for your luck rubbing off on me. Special Thanks also to @Minor2GoMusic

Here is a download and the lyrics to a song I'm working on. Photo by Ali Pazani from Pexels Am I Awake Verse I know you really want me or control me I know I could be sad and give up on life Bridge But I feel that it would be better to just put it away and get lost to the music I only know when I feel this way I know I'll be alright Chorus Am I really here Am I awake I take one step away and I don't feel the pain I'm here but I'm outside of this situation I'm in shock again Am I awake or am I dreaming Verse I feel it would be better to let the past go right now I can see into the future and make beauty of a bad situation Chorus Am I really here Am I awake I take one step away and I don't feel the pain I'm here but I'm outside of this situation I'm in shock again Am I awake or am I dreaming Verse We fight to keep it quiet but why do we have to do

Vanity and the Heart Photo by Paola Diaz from Pexels  Lyrics: Verse I live from the fears of that summer that pounds heavily on my mind and body still, the little girl tumbles Chorus Does my vanity interfere with my heart Will it stand in my way of what I really want Verse The cold scares me the loneliness makes me peril to my steps my mind doubts its choices Chorus Verse I slowly peek out from myself I want to join in I'm afraid I'll be banished forever from my inner self alone forever... Once again I question my comfort and what makes me feel assured Chorus Verse Why do I have to doubt myself so many times why is vanity so bad What makes me different to anyone else for the way I feel to this  

  Photo by Pixabay from Pexels I thought to share the lyrics to my new Christmas song "You This Christmas" by Lori Jean Finnila . I wrote it in a day. Lyrics: You This Christmas Verse I have the cake I have the drinks I have my skinny blue jeans for you All I don't have is you Chorus Bring me my gifts This Christmas All I don't have is you.... I'm feeling blue You can hear it too Verse I have the gifts I have the aura around me God's blessed me for my sins Bridge I have the ham expeditiously done my eyes done the way you adore Your tie hanging off my neck and nothing more.... Chorus Bring me my gifts This Christmas All I don't have is you.... I'm feeling blue You can hear it too This Christmas All I don't have is you Verse My eyes fill with tears I wait f

This DJ is hot as heck. Andy and herself made this wonderful news blast for this Sunday at Museboat radio where my podcast on how I healed from healing tips will be aired, along with some of my featured music in it. Please come listen!! You'll love it! Also check about 39 minutes in if you're on a hurry to listen to me, though you'll miss some extremely hot artists before me, to hear me featured on this podcast under " New Champion Radio " for my song " Never Thought of You " that I love so much that I put out on my birthday this year. Though I have so many others of mine that I love to. I look forward to putting out "Cherry Blossoms which I feel is close to this song. Boy this woman DJ, another awesome DJ, DJ Bingo, made me look so good in this song!!

Please listen in to this new playlis t supporting some great artists including myself. This gives all artists organic listens. Also Friday and Sundays at 2:00 pm PST are great days to listen at Museboat.com with live artists in chat. I'll be there as I'm a featured artist. As well my new Holistic Tips podcast with be featured and air before this Sunday's show at 1:00 pm PST where I share healing tips from my music, nutrition and spiritual healing. Watch for more shows from me there under podcasts and the announcement here.

Many Others Too Clearly lyrics (finished and named changed from I'm Not Alone) Too Clearly I am alone but I'm in love Like everyone else The movements The pattern is a melody Ironically Chorus I'm sick I'm sick inside Do I speak too loud I hear it too clearly I hear the pitch change But I keep walking in my path My words too wet But drippy I still speak Chorus I'm sick I'm sick inside Do I speak too loud I hear it too clearly I see more than others do My perception is too clear Do I speak for myself so many others as well Chorus I'm sick I'm sick inside Do I speak too loud I hear it too clearly Photo by Tom Swinnen from Pexels   

Here's the composition and lyrics to a new song I wrote. I'll be working on the recording. Many Others Lyrics:  Many Others I speak for myself but for many others as well I cry for myself but for many others as well The wars The cries The shame The destitute with no destination My sheets are dry My tears keep me moist My mind gives me energy from all my thoughts I look high For the dream I feel the magic but what I see is pain Pain that is not just inside of me I know I'm not alone Pain pain pain I know I'm not alone Photo by Markus Spiske temporausch.com from Pexels 

Clip of "Cherry Blossoms" video I've been enjoying playing around with the mood in the vocal with this one. Demoish " So Damned " This one's coming along nice.

Hello, I have a clip made of my new song Cherry Blossoms . I also added another song to my bandcamp album Chunk of Love . I'm leaning towards publishing Cherry Blossoms . Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels

Lyrics Cherry Blossom Verse How do I learn to feel the same way you do about me Chorus I remember every year the cherry blossoms falling off the tree I was beautiful to you and me Verse Then I could see love So simply so easily You smiled when I approached when you see you'd touched me Chorus I remember every year the cherry blossoms falling off the tree I was beautiful to you and me Verse Now it's cold and I wither I can't see how that day once was... I'm alone but surviving without you in this cold cold world You told me I never could But I did Chorus I remember every year the cherry blossoms falling off the tree I was beautiful to you and me Verse You took my love I didn't see it through You took my confidence from me of the ability I had of love of what we had now it's all gone you want me back Chorus I remember every year the cherry bloss

 Singer Songwriter Podcast Draft  of Song Verse That place that space that desperate hole inside of me Bridge Shows I don't belong to no one else I've seen so many torn roads on my own I only know how to do this for myself Chorus I can comfort myself You can't take that away from me It took so many years for me to see It took so many years for me to see....... Verse I remember the death inside of me when no one else was around or even seemed to want me Chorus Verse I can attain the impossible I know it's deep inside of me If I can just hold to future waves I can comfort myself..... So many years for me to see Photo by Roberto Nickson from Pexels

A clip of my new song and my new singer and songwriter podcast where you can hear me working on my music. Clip "I Can Comfort Myself " and Lori Jean Finnila Singer Songwriter Podcast .      

11- 7 guys UK time. Search your time on the photo. Mine is 11 am tomorrow. http://xrpradio.co.uk Lori Jean Finnila's new progressive music Yeah!!! This hot on your tracks band is sponsoring tomorrow's show with ME played in it. 11:00 am PST starts Come listen, share and thank this hot band. Here’s an album for you… More Is More B-Squad @XRPRadio @TizzyXRP 11-7 pm UK time. https://open.spotify.com/album/0Za1DqBsrngFaEmfXFyfD8?si=AE-pw3cbRzyS6zt1H2oP6A

France's Radio KC 12:00 pm PST I will be featured, played and promoted tomorrow on France's Radio KC in Airplay Introduction on "The Welcome Show." I submitted "We All Fail Sometimes" and "When the Guilt is Gone" as two eclectic tracks.  I'm so pleased to be played in the home of my royal ancestors. This is the first time for me. Watch for me on their Facebook and Twitter. They're linked to 204 countries with almost 40k followers on Twitter. Please listen in online.

12/08/2019 7:35 Lori Jean @lorifinnila Never Thought Of You 15/08/2019 9:33 Lori Jean @lorifinnila Never Thought Of You 15/08/2019 23:01 Lori Jean @lorifinnila Never Thought Of You 17/08/2019 4:37 Lori Jean @lorifinnila Never Thought Of You #tiorrplaylist #tiorradio1 next 7 days planning Check out our spins and listen us (UTC+1, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris) Listen on  http://bit.ly/opho84F Not sure of the time difference.

wanna know my business here it is: you make me smile you make me stand tall I'm glee ming with you...... IN the air I'm super woman for you You make me rush you make me blush I'm standing here all alone I can't stand still I'm in glee give me a reason this happens to me Photo by Simon Matzinger from Pexels I'm high in my heart you get a kick you give me a kick over to you I lose my breath you start to smile are we in style together your magic hits me in my prime I'm in glee give me a reason this happens to me you make me smile you make me see you make me jump so high I'm happy to see are we in style once again are we in chic together maybe baby your magic hits my prime I'm in glee give me a reason this happens to me You strike my heart you're not afraid I'm waitin on you night and day

  So Close to God song Lori's story of healing from injuries from abuse while connecting with other women's pain. Composed by MINOR2GO at looperman.com . Photo by Mike Bird at Pexels.com So Close to God video by Lori Jean

Tagged as Victims - learn what happens to lives of victims in their life's travels being tagged by abuse in Lori's songs in Breaking the Path at soundcloud.. Being marked as a child molested, though her mom grabbed her when the fondling began outside her diaper, Lori was targeted as owned in her own leading nation of the United States. This continued into her juvenile and adult years, tagged, molding her path with abuse afflicted upon her. https://soundcloud.com/lori-jean-230919722/sets/breaking-th-epath Photo by Pixabay from Pexels

As I struggle day to day, trying to find ways to get better, heal, connect with others, possibly love someday, I still struggle daily finding the right ways and methods. I've been fighting disease with food, fighting broken nerves and cracked bones with yoga, I should feel it's a lost cause in a world with contempt, threat, and resentment toward my injuries done to me, I don't. Perhaps it's my world I've made, I'm making, my new solitude of hope I've built myself, and sometimes someone comes in and gives me a shimmer of happiness from their end. But when I feel a breath enter my body from a place where force can't be controlled doing yoga or delect honey sweetened chocolate, I know there is a greater world. As I write more and more I seem to be coming to a conclusion, a branding. A road from my life that is making a pattern. I can feel a collection of songs making a branded album. Beautifully Imperfect Album Synopsis I just wanted to address th

New Releases in the Works I'm proud to display a new playlist that I've been working hard towards. I love the atmosphere of the electronic festivals and would be so proud to be a part of it. Photo by mikky koopac from Pexels

So excited!!! I just got my first Spotify Artist Paycheck!!!! I'm finally getting my money again. I know this looks small but I used to get mad when I would get 100 of these .01 payments because I was insulted; I didn't understand the streaming digital pay chart, that was good. Now I'm just happy to be getting my own payments again after such a long struggle of getting mixed up with another artist under my name. Yeah! Thanks Spotify for saving me.

Lori Jean Finnila Singing Online at Concert Window https://www.concertwindow.com/lorijean Guns Pulled, a new song singing her experience with gun violence, supporting women in volatile situations. So Damned, a song about reflecting on a situation that seemingly can't be reversed. Never Thought of You, her birthday release this year WW digitally about finding love in the least expected places. Songs can be heard and downloaded at her Soundcloud under Lori Jean. https://m.soundcloud.com/lori-jean-230919722   Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels    Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels  

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