Rowan Hart’s music focuses on story-driven songwriting — small moments, emotional turns, and characters you recognize even if you’ve never met them.

Oh, Merry Beth

Single

A reflective song about memory, distance, and the people who leave a permanent mark on your life. Oh, Merry Beth balances warmth and restraint, pairing personal lyrics with a subtle sense of longing.

Forever Is Not Long Enough

Single

A song about love that’s so strong that even a lifetime is not long enough. Written for the chance moment that lasts longer than that first sight.

Pages We Never Wrote

Single

The story of what coulda-shoulda-woulda happened had that momentary glance turned into a lifetime story.

I Don’t Want to Fall in Love with Me

Single

What if the problem really isn’t you, it’s me? Rowan’s self-effacing nature takes a humorous turn.

Pretend Boy in a Pretend World

Single

A song about the masks we wear in an Insta/Booktok driven world where everyone seems happy – but likely isn’t.

Roses from Leroy’s

Single (Cover)

“Bad news comes so beautiful.” A reverse-breakup song by South Carolina’s Danielle Howle and Mark Bryan.

(You Just Wanna) Dance with Me

Single

Lyrics

Forever is not Long Enough

Concrete steps and lecture halls Another Tuesday, nothing new Then you walked past the library walls Changed the color of my view Never thought I’d be the type To lose my breath from just a glance But here I am, rewriting life Around this unexpected chance

All those plans I made alone Suddenly don’t feel like home

Forever is not long enough To love you like I want to love you Forever is not long enough When every day feels brand new Time was just a game before Now it means so much more Forever is not long enough

Walking through Five Points at night Your hand finds its way to mine The city lights can’t match the bright Of how you make the stars align Used to think that growing up Meant settling for something less Now I know what filling up An empty heart can really bless

All those dreams I dreamed alone Finally found their way back home

Forever is not long enough To love you like I want to love you Forever is not long enough When every day feels brand new Time was just a game before Now it means so much more Forever is not long enough

From Columbia to Charleston shore From the mountains to the sea I’d walk every mile and more If you’d walk that road with me Twenty years or eighty-three Won’t be nearly what we need

Forever is not long enough To love you like I want to love you Forever is not long enough When every day feels brand new Time was just a game before Now it means so much more Forever is not long enough

Forever is not long enough Forever is not long enough

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)

I Don’t Want to Fall in Love with Me

She said “Write me a song, make it sweet and true
Put my name in the chorus, make it all about you-know-who”
But I’d rather eat glass than rhyme with your name
‘Cause Sarah and “horror” sound exactly the same
I’ve got better things to do with my time
Like watching paint dry or forcing this rhyme
She wants a ballad but I’d rather flee
‘Cause honestly…

I don’t want to fall in love with me
I don’t want to fall in love with me
She’s got stars in her eyes but I can’t see
Why I don’t want to fall in love with me

She brought me her diary, said “Here’s inspiration”
But reading it felt like mild torture sensation
She dots her i’s with little hearts and flowers
I’d rather spend my time taking cold showers
She says I’m mysterious, dark and deep
But I just need coffee and more sleep
She thinks I’m Hemingway, I think I’m debris
And that’s why…

I don’t want to fall in love with me
I don’t want to fall in love with me
She’s got stars in her eyes but I can’t see
Why I don’t want to fall in love with me

Now she’s outside my window with a guitar
Singing off-key songs about how we are
“Meant to be together like peanut butter and jam”
But I’m allergic to nuts, so here I am
Maybe I’ll move to another state
Find a place where songwriters don’t date
Till then I’ll hide behind my door with glee
Singing…

I don’t want to fall in love with me
I don’t want to fall in love with me
She’s got stars in her eyes but I can’t see
Why I don’t want to fall in love with me

(She’s still singing outside)
(I’m not answering the door)
I don’t want to fall in love with me
No, I don’t want to fall in love with me

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)

Oh, Merry Beth

We met when you moved down the street

Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth
You were the type of girl with beat-up sneakers on your feet

Oh, Merry Beth–

We spent hours on the playground pushing each other on the swings

Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth
Trying to see how much higher we could reach

Oh, Merry Beth–

[Chorus]
With you there were endless summers
Endless calls on the phone
At college you were the girl just down the hall who made me feel like I was home

Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth–

We share dirty jokes and laugh till we cried
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth

You had a license and a car, took- me- a-long– for the ride–
And when things got tough, your arms were where I’d hide
Oh, Merry Beth

My folks didn’t approve, said you were too old for me

Oh, Merry Beth
Oh Merry Beth
But you were just a year ahead, wild and free

Oh, Merry Beth–

We’d fall asleep with our hands entwined
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth

Still wearing all our clothes, your legs tangled up in mine

Oh , Merry Beth–

We’d stay up late talking ’bout our dreams–
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth

You made my whole world bigger than it seemed
Oh, Merry Beth

With you there were endless summers
Endless calls on the phone
At college you were the girl just down the hall who made me feel like I was home
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth

I was a thousand miles away
When I got the message you were gone–
Now there’s not a day that goes by
I don’t dream that they were wrong–

With you there were endless summers
Endless calls on the phone
At college you were the girl just down the hall who made me feel like I was home
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth
.
Oh, Merry Beth
Oh, Merry Beth

Oh, Merry Beth

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)

Pages We Never Wrote

Coffee shops and lecture halls
Where I learned to dream in prose
You were sitting three seats back
In a sweater no one knows
Southern sun through dusty windows
Cast shadows on your face
Now I’m typing out these stories
But I can’t find your place

All these characters I’m writing
Sound a little bit like you
Every heroine has your laughter
Every plot twist that you’d do

We were pages we never wrote
Chapters left unfinished
Now I’m here with my typewriter
Wishing I could go back and finish
What we started in those hallways
Between classes, between dreams
Now you’re just a memory
In everything I write, it seems

Magnolia trees were blooming
When you said you’d see me ’round
Graduation came too quickly
Now you’re nowhere to be found
I’ve got manuscripts and maybes
But no number I can call
Just the ghost of what we could’ve been
Haunting every word I scrawl

All these love scenes that I’m crafting
Start and end the way we did
Every kiss is interrupted
Every secret that we hid

We were pages we never wrote
Chapters left unfinished
Now I’m here with my typewriter
Wishing I could go back and finish
What we started in those hallways
Between classes, between dreams
Now you’re just a memory
In everything I write, it seems

Sometimes I wonder if you think of me
When you’re reading something new
Do you see us in the margins
Of a book that someone threw
Together like we never were
But should have been somehow
I’m still writing our beginning
But I don’t know how it ends now

We were pages we never wrote
Stories left unspoken
Now I’m here with these empty sheets
Trying to fix what can’t be broken
What we started in those hallways
Lives in every word I bleed
You’re the novel I can’t finish
But the one I’ll always need

Coffee shops and lecture halls
Where I learned to dream in prose
You were sitting three seats back
In a sweater no one knows

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)

Pretend Boy in a Pretend World

Scrolling through the timelines, everybody’s winning My life don’t look so bright and I don’t know what I’m feeling Chasing every moment nothing seems like mine

I curate the perfect smile But I haven’t felt real in a while

I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me escape Help me really love you I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me learn to really love you

Even when I hold you, I’m somewhere else inside Saying all the right words but they’re generated lines I’m afraid you’ll see through all the roles I play And you’ll walk away

I want to let you in But I forgot where to begin

I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me escape Help me really love you I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me learn to really love you

Maybe if I close my eyes Put down the screen and stop the lies I could find what’s real inside Something honest, something real

[Instrumental]

I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me escape Help me really love you I’m a pretend boy in a pretend world Help me break the glass Help me learn to really love you

Help me pretend to escape

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)

(You Just Wanna) Dance with Me

I can tell when you pass by you ain’t looking at my eyes

You just want to dance with me, dance with me

You just want to dance with me

Everyone’s more attractive standing in front of a  wall of bottle glass 

I can sense when I walk by you’re looking at my…    ass

You just want to dance with me, dance with me

You just want to dance with me

You’re ordering drinks you don’t even like

Leaning on the bar a little too close… tonight

You just want to dance with me, dance with me

You just want to dance with me, dance with me

It may just be tonight

It may be just one night

And that’s alright, alright 

‘Cause one night might lead to an entire life

[Instrumental]

‘Cause you just want to dance with me, dance with me

Yeah you just want to dance with me

Last call’s coming but you’re still here Laughing too loud so I’ll hear

You just want to dance with me You just want to dance with me

 You just want to dance with me

Dance with me

Dance with me

Rowan Temple Hart (ASCAP)/SF Varholy(ASCAP)/MusicMovers Art & Commerce (ASCAP)