August Songwriting Contest.

[Steve]

OK. Here is the title for this months contest.

Soft Summer

Open to one and all. No prizes of any description.

[Alistair]

Did you come up with this through some kind of random word generator?

I can't see what summer has to do with anything?

[john]

Hey

Yes Alistair, that is the challenge. We generate a random title and set that as the title for the comp.

Cheers

John

[Alistair]

Hey

Yes Alistair, that is the challenge. We generate a random title and set that as the title for the comp.

Cheers

John

Yes, I got with the programme while you were ignoring me on Shoutbox by checking out the June contest post. Is it a lyric contest? If so can the next - wink, wink 'randomly' generated title be 'The Elephant In The Room'?

[roxhythe]

I appreciate the desire to remain random, but something entitled "Soft Summer" is never going to be a hit, in my opinion. I liked "The Elephant in the room" much better.

joe

[john]

Hey

Ask Steve

Cheers

John

[Steve]

Doesn't have to be a hit! Just need a lyric.

[Jabbott]

Entry number one, BOOM. This was a pretty quick affair, so I'd appreciate some feedback too if y'all are up to the task.

Soft Summer,

© Josh Abbott, July 30/08

It's been another hard winter

I'm chilled to the bone

Times haven't been easy

Nothing's set in stone

And I'm out in the blizzard

I'm out on my own

The only comfort I have

Is knowing I'm coming home

To a soft, soft summer

With my baby beside me and my arms around her

A soft, soft summer

It's what gets me through

These times without you

The spring's not the same

Without you around

While flowers are blooming

I fall to the ground

And the songs that I'm singin'

Ring out loud and true

Cause the songs that I'm singin'

Are all about you

You're my soft, soft summer

With my baby beside me and my arms around her

A soft, soft summer

It's what gets me through

These times without you

And sooner or later the snow, it will melt

The birds will be singing and the sun will be felt

The heavens will open up gracefully

And we'll be together, my baby and me

In a soft, soft summer

With my baby beside me and my arms around her

A soft, soft summer

It's what gets me through

These times without you

[LittleJeff]

warm pillows

hard mattress

orange headrest

blue buttress

i can sing a rainbow

if you want me too

sleep a soft summer

buy some flip-flaps

on the clouds we'll be laughing

as the river winds below

through the valley beneath the mountain

where no wind blows...

is where we'll go

to sleep a soft summer below...

where the bird song echoes

and throws...

like a light against the dark night that grows...

but we'll sleep a soft summer...

and instead, wait for the snow.

[McnaughtonPark]

Hope it's not too late...I've been very busy.

Soft Summer

Spinning through like threads

Of the days and hopes sewn under

For once and then again

The rain wants to pretend

To forget the winters wind

Like a breeze of one soft summer

Until I hold you

Not just in my dreams

I'll keep blowin’ down the road

Like a soft summer breeze 

Won’t quit ‘till I find you

The promise tolls the thunder

I'll keep turning 'round and 'round

Spinning ‘round and ‘round and ‘round

‘Till comfort calls the whisper down

Like a breeze of one soft summer

Until I hold you

Not just in my dreams

I'll keep blowin’ down the road

Like a soft summer breeze

I’ll take a night in your arms

Wear it like a precious charm

Tame the fury of the seas

Like a soft summer breeze

Until I hold you

My dreams of restful slumber

Will just keep blowin’ down the road

Like a breeze of one soft summer

Edited August 20, 2008 by McnaughtonPark

[Nightwolf]

Here is my late late entry:

Locked in

Locked down

Hiding from the winds

Rushing out into the darkness

Then running in again

I AM:

Longing for the softness of Summer

Searching for the new growth of Spring

This long and lonely Winter

Makes it really hard to Sing

…….about the softness of Summer

……about the sproutings anew

About the Bees and the SunShine

And the Sweetness of you

The winter nights they slay me

And turn me inside out

Filling me with darkness

Filling me with doubt I AM:

Longing for the softness of Summer

Searching for the new growth of Spring

This long and lonely Winter

Makes it really hard to Sing

…….about the softness of Summer

……about the sprouting anew

About the Bees and the SunShine

And the Sweetness of you

[Nightwolf]

Voting is now open as a poll in a new thread. Please take a little time to review each one and pick your favorite HERE