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Hi Gang

 

Abby Sedee, renowned song pitcher extraordinaire, has contacted Songstuff, requesting that we set a challenge for you to write a song that she can pitch.

 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a song for one of your favourite artists. Tell us who it is. Get into the head of the artist, write a song you could hear them singing. Make sure you use their kind of language, a song form that they would use etc.

 

We will be assessing how good a fit it is by running a poll in two weeks time where we will be asking the site to mark just how close you got to fulfilling the brief.

 

Dont be afraid of trying. Be afraid of not trying.

 

Cheers

 

john

 

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Oops. Deadlines are your friend :) I had meant to say 2 weeks from posting the challenge

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Anyone?

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I've got one...I'll post it up later today.  Just a little thing like a day job to hold things up a bit lol.

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lol I hear ya. :)

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I'm thinking that this might be good for Alanis Morisette as a female artist......Nickelback for male artist/group.  Obviously this is about a chronic abuser that finally gets theirs in the end.  Definitely not my normal lyrics.

 

A Street Stained Red

Copyright JH Michaels

2016 All Rights Reserved

 

Intro:

Face down in the street stained red

Think about every word you said

Blood pourin’ over me like rain

Face down in the street stained red

Think about every slap where I bled

This is where it all comes to an end

Verse:

Don’t look at me that way

I couldn’t help this, I couldn’t stop the rage

I’m not the only one that you’ve beat this way

And when you hit the ground

I’m not the only face in the crowd

I’m not the only one that wants to end you

Chorus:  x2

Face down in the street stained red

Think about every word you said

Blood pourin’ over me like rain

It’s your turn to feel the pain

Verse:

This is really the end

You’ll never, ever do this to me again

Did you know that the deepest, darkest part of me fears you?

Well I heard all those “sorry’s” before

It don’t matter to me, I can’t hear those lies no more

Well I’m not the one

I’m not the one

I will not be the one to be scared

Chorus: x2

Instr

Bridge:

Down to the line

That separates you and I with all those lies

I was so damned blind

From that moment in time when you and I became one

Outro:

Don’t look at me that way

I couldn’t help this, I couldn’t stop the rage

I’m not going to be the one to keep living this way….yeah

Chorus: x2

This is where it all comes to an end

Yeah

 (gun shot)

End

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I like these competitions. This is an idea I had when Steve Strange died, but more to a Midge Ure track (he wrote a lot of the lyrics and music for Visage as well as being in Ultravox etc). If you know any of the Visage songs, you may see where the lyrics are going.

 

NEVER FADE AWAY

 
Verse 1
The man on the platform has gone
Only the memory still remains
The secrets held in the suitcase
Will be hidden for all time
 
Verse 2
There is no more rain to fall
The poster on the wall is torn
The images and words are faded
By a world that has moved on
 
Chorus
You'll never fade away
You'll never turn to grey
As long as people remember
Remember
 
Bridge
And the child has thrown out his toys
As he has grown into a man
The music box that never stopped
Played its last a long time ago
 
Verse 3
The damned have finally cried
The train pulls away from the station
Travelling on its very last journey
It knows it's final destination now
 
Chorus
 
Bridge
 
Chorus
 
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I like it......well done Richard....I get a lot of imagery with these lyrics...and that is what they are supposed to do...

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finally back lol, so long now... I plan on writing one in the slightly more melancholy parts of Alice in chains, similar to their rarer song, "Blue", is. Probably going to call it "Fade".

 

Maybe I might do a nod to "The sound of silence" by Simon & Garfunkel, called "Essence of the fleeting".

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