2026 Competition Entry:
Strong As Stone by Rosie Bell
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Lyrics
Strong as Stone Rosie Bell
We worked til we ached
and our fingers were bleeding
cause we never thought
we’d ever be leaving.
but the vultures are comin’ to pick the meat off the bones
They can take this house, but they’ll never take our home
‘cause
Chorus
The memories we made here
Are steeped in the mortar
Of loved ones we cherished,
Our son and our daughter
when we put down our roots,
We made this piece of earth our own
But we’ll carry on
when all this is over
Strong as love, strong as stone
The trees that we planted
when the kids were born
That you loved to sit under
Their shade on the lawn
And the deck still ain’t finished
Somehow we never found the time
Just like us it was a work in progress
Just like us it will be fine
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
This was a haven that our love created
And that can’t be sold by a real estate agent
Repeat Chorus
We worked til we ached
and our fingers were bleeding
cause we never thought
we’d ever be leaving.
but the vultures are comin’ to pick the meat off the bones
They can take this house, but they’ll never take our home
‘cause
Chorus
The memories we made here
Are steeped in the mortar
Of loved ones we cherished,
Our son and our daughter
when we put down our roots,
We made this piece of earth our own
But we’ll carry on
when all this is over
Strong as love, strong as stone
The trees that we planted
when the kids were born
That you loved to sit under
Their shade on the lawn
And the deck still ain’t finished
Somehow we never found the time
Just like us it was a work in progress
Just like us it will be fine
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
This was a haven that our love created
And that can’t be sold by a real estate agent
Repeat Chorus
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Rosie Bell is a singer-songwriter who currently lives just south of the border in Ireland. Her mind, however, refuses to be pinned down to a patch of weeds outside Dundalk. Rosie writes songs that are as personal as they are universal that aim to connect us all through our shared experiences of life, love and loss wherever we find ourselves.
Not one to shy away from difficult subjects, Rosie has also written songs about bullying, homelessness and the craziness of the modern world and tries to help speak for those who have no voice.
Rosie’s ability to craft a decent lyric has not gone unnoticed, and she was nominated as ‘one to watch’ by the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and was recently the winner of a global holiday song contest with her entry ‘On a night like this’ co-written with Jonathan Helfand. Additionally, Rosie has won lyric of the year on two occasions in Songtown’s Global songwriting community.
Over the last few years Rosie has been blessed to have written with and learned from the best of Nashville’s hit writers including Brian Davis, Adam Wood, Blake Chaffin, Jason Duke, Victoria Banks, Marti Jane, Marty Dodson and Clay Mills as well as with some remarkable UK writers as diverse as Boo Hewerdine, Simon Todd and Yungblud.
12
Monthly Listeners
X
Rosie Bell is a singer-songwriter who currently lives just south of the border in Ireland. Her mind, however, refuses to be pinned down to a patch of weeds outside Dundalk. Rosie writes songs that are as personal as they are universal that aim to connect us all through our shared experiences of life, love and loss wherever we find ourselves.
Not one to shy away from difficult subjects, Rosie has also written songs about bullying, homelessness and the craziness of the modern world and tries to help speak for those who have no voice.
Rosie’s ability to craft a decent lyric has not gone unnoticed, and she was nominated as ‘one to watch’ by the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and was recently the winner of a global holiday song contest with her entry ‘On a night like this’ co-written with Jonathan Helfand. Additionally, Rosie has won lyric of the year on two occasions in Songtown’s Global songwriting community.
Over the last few years Rosie has been blessed to have written with and learned from the best of Nashville’s hit writers including Brian Davis, Adam Wood, Blake Chaffin, Jason Duke, Victoria Banks, Marti Jane, Marty Dodson and Clay Mills as well as with some remarkable UK writers as diverse as Boo Hewerdine, Simon Todd and Yungblud.
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