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[Make me your Dream Life 83,133]

I’m not really sure what’s going on exactly but I like the thread idea. Would anyone know if we have a thread that actually makes something more of lyrics tho? I’d def look into that

[Tana Mongeau 4,272]

Reviving this to just share something I’m in the process of writing. It’s still like early stages aka 5-10 minutes in so like here’s a lil pre chorus.

 

I was never born to have the chance of a soft soul

I was armed with shards of glass in bloody knuckles

So everyone around me thought my heart was cold

When in reality, I was afraid of people hurting me

[ivory almond 10,481]

015 - Overcast

 

[Verse 1]

You cut yourself and you bleed red
You spend a third of your life in your bed
And you spend another all in your head
Then you spend the last just waiting for death

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Painters will paint, and poets will sing
In the meantime, you're struggling with living
Doctors will heal, and teachers will teach
Just look for something that's within your reach

 

[Chorus]

I'm overcast
My grey will last
I tell myself it's something I can get past
But I'm overcast
And stuck in the past
My prime came and hit me and went in a flash

 

[Verse 2]

You see the stars shine bright at night
You spend the day thinking 'bout how to say hi
You don't like seeing your face in the light
You read the stories that you wish you could write

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Leaders will lead, and poets will sing
In the meantime, you're struggling with living
Judges will rule, and preachers will preach
Just look for something that's within your reach

 

[Chorus]

I'm overcast
My grey will last
I tell myself it's something I can get past
But I'm overcast
And stuck in the past
My prime came and hit me and went in a flash

 

[Outro]

I'm overcast
I'm overcast
I tell myself it's something that I can get past
I'm overcast
And stuck in the past
My prime came and hit me and went in a flash (I'm overcast)
I'm always overcast (I'm overcast)

[ivory almond 10,481]

016 - The Wringer

 

[Verse 1]

They say you're growing up fast, but yet, nothing is changing
I'm taking up the same space and going at the same pacing
Always falling behind, never making it to deadlines
Never not dependent, always relying on lifelines

 

[Chorus]

Hanging from the drywall of the ceiling 
With my bedsheets around me
Framing plaques from middle school, paint peels off
And it's excruciating
Your room's falling down, but you're too lazy
To just get up and plaster
Putting yourself through the wringer when none of it mattered

 

[Post-Chorus]

None of it mattered, none of it matters
None of it matters, die, die down
None of it mattered, none of it matters
None of it matters, lie down

 

[Instrumental Solo]

 

[Verse 2]

Rotting in the mattress
Mildew in the corner
Plastic flower madness
This house is getting warmer
Rotting in the soil
Morning dew in the grass
Food that's going spoiled
Doing the least to get pass

 

[Bridge]

They say you're growing up fast
They say you're growing up fast
I'm not ready on my own
I still don't know what needs to be known
They say you're growing up fast
They say you're growing up fast
I'm taking up all the same space
My age has already surpassed

 

[Outro]

Passed me by
This life has already passed me by

[ivory almond 10,481]

017 - Ghost To Your Right

 

[Verse 1]
Crowded streets or empty rooms
You go on your way
Mutual friends and inside jokes
I'm dealt everyday
One-time glances, dream romances
I think what to say
Picking up speed, following your lead
Why should I have to pay?

 

[Chorus]
It's hard to always be the one who looks back twice
I guess I'm fine with being the ghost to your right
It's hard to always be the one who says goodnight
I know I'll always be the ghost to your right

It's hard to always be the one who looks back twice
I guess I'm fine with being the ghost to your right
It's hard to always be the one who says goodnight
I know I'll always be the ghost to your right

 

[Verse 2]
Touch me, touch me, touch me
Give me some acknowledgement
Tolerate me, tolerate me, tolerate me
Let me be something important
I'm not asking you to love me
I just don't want you to hate me
I'm not asking you to hold me
I just don't want to go unseen
See me, see me, see me
I'm the ghost to your right

 

[Chorus]
It's hard to always be the one who looks back twice
I guess I'm fine with being the ghost to your right
It's hard to always be the one who says goodnight
I know I'll always be the ghost to your right

 

[Bridge]
I hope one day you'll call my name
And there won't be an answer
I try, I try to be your first choice
But I know my love's your cancer
I'd rather be your second best
Than be a solo dancer
I try, I try to be someone you like
But I know I'm the ghost to your right

 

[Outro]
The ghost to your right
The ghost to your right
The ghost to your right
Just the ghost to your right

[ivory almond 10,481]

018 - Necessity

 

[Verse 1]

I don't want to work
I just want to sleep
I'm dying of thirst
I can't seem to eat

 

[Verse 2]

I need this to work
Work itself out for me
I'm stuck on a hurst
I'd rather be in a hearse

 

[Verse 3]

I don't want to work
At this point, I cannot sleep
I don't feel a thirst for life
I don't even have my will anymore

 

[Verse 4]

I can't be bothered
I can't try to survive
I need it all to work
I need this for me

 

[Verse 5]

It's a need, it's a need
It's a need, it's a need
It's a need, it's a need
It's a need

 

[Verse 6]

I won't make it into work
I haven't been able to sleep
I can't feel any thirst
I can't feel anything

 

[Verse 7]

I'll do anything
Just kill me, just kill me, just kill me
I have nothing
It's a need, not a want, but a need

 

[Verse 8]

I have no necessities
I cannot meet my own needs
I don't want to do anything
But for this to end, I'll do anything

 

[Outro]

A means to an end is the only necessity that I need
 

[honeymooncd 3,611]

26 minutes ago, ivory almond said:

018 - Necessity

 

[Verse 1]

I don't want to work
I just want to sleep
I'm dying of thirst
I can't seem to eat

 

[Verse 2]

I need this to work
Work itself out for me
I'm stuck on a hurst
I'd rather be in a hearse

 

[Verse 3]

I don't want to work
At this point, I cannot sleep
I don't feel a thirst for life
I don't even have my will anymore

 

[Verse 4]

I can't be bothered
I can't try to survive
I need it all to work
I need this for me

 

[Verse 5]

It's a need, it's a need
It's a need, it's a need
It's a need, it's a need
It's a need

 

[Verse 6]

I won't make it into work
I haven't been able to sleep
I can't feel any thirst
I can't feel anything

 

[Verse 7]

I'll do anything
Just kill me, just kill me, just kill me
I have nothing
It's a need, not a want, but a need

 

[Verse 8]

I have no necessities
I cannot meet my own needs
I don't want to do anything
But for this to end, I'll do anything

 

[Outro]

A means to an end is the only necessity that I need
 

I really like this, everything is smoothly connected and works well together.

[honeymooncd 3,611]

I kinda over used metaphors in this, but I'm going to post it here anyway:

I shove my key down the vase

It's filled of clandestine elusive ink splotched Paper

"One Girl" was plastered all over

Hyacinth flowers around my swirl of infatuation

Around cloudy smolder evisioned

In tyrian purple ribbons & rose

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology

Your say your'e above that

Are you, though?

[ivory almond 10,481]

2 hours ago, honeymooncd said:

You say you're above that

Are you, though?

[ivory almond 10,481]

3 hours ago, honeymooncd said:

I kinda over used metaphors in this, but I'm going to post it here anyway:

I shove my key down the vase

It's filled of clandestine elusive ink splotched Paper

"One Girl" was plastered all over

Hyacinth flowers around my swirl of infatuation

Around cloudy smolder evisioned

In tyrian purple ribbons & rose

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology

Your say your'e above that

Are you, though?

[Verse 1]

I'm taking my key
And shoving it down the vase
It's filled of clandestine 
Elusive ink-splotched paper at the base

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?

 

[Verse 2]

"One girl" was plastered all over
Hyacinth flowers around my love
My infatuation
Tyrian purple ribbons, roses, and gloves

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?

 

[Bridge]

You say you're above that, above me
How can you say that looking right at me?
You say you're above that, above me
How can you say that looking up at me?

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?
I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that
Are you really, though?

[honeymooncd 3,611]

24 minutes ago, ivory almond said:

[Verse 1]

I'm taking my key
And shoving it down the vase
It's filled of clandestine 
Elusive ink-splotched paper at the base

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?

 

[Verse 2]

"One girl" was plastered all over
Hyacinth flowers around my love
My infatuation
Tyrian purple ribbons, roses, and gloves

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?

 

[Bridge]

You say you're above that, above me
How can you say that looking right at me?
You say you're above that, above me
How can you say that looking up at me?

 

[Chorus]

I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that—are you really, though?
I'm a Garter Snake in mythology
You say you're above that with your hypocrisy
I want one-acts in the spotlight in my self-titled show
You say you're above that
Are you really, though?

Shittt that's so good

[honeymooncd 3,611]

You've got me wrapped around your finger

Like a faux emerald ring

I'd say I dress to impress

But that wouldn't be true

It's only for you, though I'll digress

You've got those doe coffee eyes

And I'm addicted

 I'm never coming down

[Veinsineon 70,490]

There's no more pilots in the sky

 

 

 

don't know how im gonna write this into a song... just liked the way it sounds 

 

I keep a little list of phrases and words that intrigue my creativity on the off chance an idea ever clicks

[honeymooncd 3,611]

2 minutes ago, Veinsineon said:

There's no more pilots in the sky

 

 

 

don't know how im gonna write this into a song... just liked the way it sounds 

 

I keep a little list of phrases and words that intrigue my creativity on the off chance an idea ever clicks

I do that to, and sometimes I just force them to connect together into a poem if I don't have any creativity 

[ivory almond 10,481]

On 9/25/2023 at 7:28 PM, Veinsineon said:

There's no more pilots in the sky

 

019 - Co-Pilot

 

[Verse 1]

There's no more pilots in the sky
There's nothing like a guiding light
To get through the dark, or at least try
And have a chance on the other side
Storms will rage, but in beds, they'll lie
For now, on your own, you'll just try
Navigating through the cold nights
When waking up feels like a fight

 

[Verse 2]

Listen close, you can hear the stars sigh
With a rhythm like a lullaby
Solitude's something you can't deny
'Cause nobody's near to ask why
Through the halls of your home, find your way
For the chaos outside, come what may
Get it done by the end of the day
For the pilot's asleep and still lays

 

[Outro]

In the back of your mind, you say
That you know the pilot won't wake

 

_____

 

The whole song is just a general metaphor for someone/something you're dependent on not being there when you need them/it.

[honeymooncd 3,611]

Love that!

[honeymooncd 3,611]

.nvm

 

 

 

[honeymooncd 3,611]

I always feel embarrassed posting here, but here it is anyway:

 

Minutiae days:

 

The floor is sinking down

Down into the ground

And the roof is getting high

Higher than my knife

But the world, it has stopped

It has formed a big black hole

Let it sit in my heart and take it's course

It's wheel of fortune

Spinning Round and round

Like feverish waves

And minutiae days

It's all amalgamating thoroughly

Into the same graveyard

Full of past mistakes

 

Different tales of me

Artistry of unfathomable things

Carefully, like a stream

Sending it's way down

To be eaten by the hounds

 

I still see her everywhere

On the roof and up the stairs

In the mirror looking down

But I think I get it now

The feverish waves

And minutiae days

Come climbing up and down

From the woods to my house

 

That latch was turned the wrong way

It was the aligning that intertwined

Sugar towards the wound

It was the saturnine movements of everyday

The only rarity that stays

[Make me your Dream Life 83,133]

Part of something I wrote and made a while back:
 

I dress my eyes in poison and dream of you, ‘gives me the confidence to pull myself thru

 

to get above, away, mere circumstance-

had danced around in too long-

forgetting who I am

 

and in the silent hours of contemplation

I envision what it’d be like

a future so full, no hesitations,

 

but I’ll be resting my head alone

[Make me your Dream Life 83,133]

I was looking for one, but couldn't find it (at least right now?), but did we have a songwriting thread where we can talk about what we can do better with writing and how to progress them ie marketing/ how to promote?