Nice portrait of this concept I think we've all experienced!

Love that never gets twisted and doesn’t hurt does exist. You just have to find a soulmate from amongst 8.1 billion people. I found mine when I was 15.

Song a week #8 - Prompts: Down with Love / Pistols and Petals

I left out the pistols. No one's going to get hurt over this. 

"La  douleur exquise" is a French term - 

"Directly translated, the French phrase means "exquisite pain," but that doesn't convey the full force of the sentiment. It specifically refers to that pain you feel for wanting someone you can't have." 

This song poetically cuts to the heart of the matter, and exemplifies my main sub-genre of love songs. 

La Douleur Exquise

“They have done such dreadful things
And we have suffered much
They have perpetrated
Victimising us”
If someone steps to rescue
It will only stay the same
We've gotta change the game
Oh please believe me when I say

It's Us and us - It's us and us
If we put our Hearts together 
We can be victorious
You're my sister, you're my brother
You're my sibling, you're my blood
It was never we and they
Cause there's only us and us

Look at the conflicts
Raging in the world today
All our blame and anger
Strips humanity away
When I see you as an other
I dehumanise myself 
And you as well
Oh it’s a mirror, can't you tell?

Chorus

If it’s only us - there’s only us
There’s no-one we can throw under the bus
If it’s only us - there’s only us
Then only we can see it
Gotta start inside of me

Chorus

Us And Us

Song-A-Week #18: Protest

Lyrics:

[verse #1]
You sit upon your throne of paper
Commanding all us ants below
You declare that you’re an Earth shaper
You kill the skies with Freon vapor
You let the oceans overflow

[chorus]
Hey! We’re gonna set the world on fire and we’ll burn it to the ground and dance on glowing embers
Na na na
Hey! We’re gonna tear it down and settle all the dust and build a better world for all the people
Na na na

[verse #2]
Residing far off from the warzone
I say the blood is on your hands
You fund and profit off of tossed stones
Reducing life to flesh and bone
As silence falls on shattered lands

world on fire

https://i.ibb.co/Hhvd1Cv/to-believe.png

When I see the harvest moon up in the sky
When I see the barn owl fly
When you pin the heavens right between the eyes
And look at me
It’s easy to believe

How we learn to laugh before we learn to speak
At the pigeons pigeoning around our feet
Aren’t paw pads so very tickly?
When I tickle these
It’s easy to believe 

Then I watch the news
And I know what I’d do
Like I know what anyone would do
If they had the power to
If they only had the power to
Then I find it hard to believe oh lord
I find it hard to believe

And the shadows of the clouds that run like wolves
At the moored invisible curlews
And we’re brambling, we’re brambling
The birds and me
It’s times like these
It’s easy to believe

And the golden sun that shines on golden corn
Awe-inspiringly
And the rain that goes around and round
Might we?
Immortality
You make me want to believe 

Hallelujah…

^ longer version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nL6vUDSr167SqQdi1DmGQIX9Ea4p6Q9b/view?usp=sharing

To Believe

It’s just a sad song
(Mark I Anderson)

Sad songs sound sweeter  / On an old guitar
When weathered hands pick out of tune
And the words are like leather / To protect a young heart 
From fallin’ for someone untrue
Sad songs sound softer / The next time around
With a smile and a tincture of time
When love that you’re after / Can only be found
In the sad songs that we leave behind

[Chorus]
It’s just a sad song / A new one comes along everyday
Another old sad song / With nothing important to say
We love em and hate em / We all overrate em
Still we all sing along
The dues that we pay / to get through the day 
It’s just a sad song

Sad songs and whiskey / and Saturday night
Where weathered hands pick out a song
Dial up a number / turn down the lights
The whiskey will soon be all gone 
But sad songs remain / and sad songs remember
A place in the back of your mind
Where we all try in vain / to rekindle the ember
In the sad songs that we’ve left behind

[Chorus]
It’s just a sad song / A new one comes along everyday
Just an old sad song / With nothing important to say
We love em and hate em / We all overrate em
Still we all sing along
The dues that ya pay / to get through the day 
It’s just a sad song

[Chorus]
It’s just a sad song / A new one comes along everyday
Another old sad song / With nothing important to say
We love em and hate em / We all overrate em
Still we all sing along
The dues that we pay / to get through the day 
Here in a sad song

[Outro]
We love em and hate em / We all overrate em
Still we all sing along
The dues that we pay / to get through the day 
Here in a sad song…

It’s just a sad song

I just wanna keep loving
Keep on loving myself in my heart
Cause the blows they keep on coming
As I'm making my way in the dark
And I guess there'll always be something
That I could hate or take the bait of
But the love runs when the time comes
I'm gonna wait it out

I just wanna keep hoping
And keep my heart so open wide
Cause my gut says if we'd spoken
I'd have give you a piece of my mind
And maybe something would be broken
We'd be lost in pain and fear
But the love runs when the time comes
I'm gonna be right here

I'm gonna be right here in my heart
I'm gonna be alright 

I just wanna keep trying
To get my ego dying down
Cause when I feel the temper rising
with the demons seeping out,
I know it’s no time for fighting,
That I'm right for crying out loud
Cause the love runs when the time comes
I'm gonna be alright now

Love Runs When The Time Comes

Copyright Erin Wolf 2024
Recorded in Eagan, MN

Photo credit: Nechama Lock

instrumental - may turn in to something more... and yet, for now, it's good

Doodling (Instrumental)

For r/songaweek Week 19: Lost Dog Laika. This song was inspired by both the Laika prompt and the novel Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis.

Lyrics:

I am the chosen one
My good is greater
Now that I'm blasting off
It hits me like a trailer
The rest of my life...
A million miles from home...

Somebody said it was a suicide mission
I said "I know" it was a lie of omission
I didn't consider there'd be time to regret

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Plucked from obscurity
They said I'll make the books
Praised my maturity
And offered me free stuff
The rest of my life...
Signed, sealed, delivered...

I was duly warned, I wasn't forced
I made my bed outta zero g thorns
Now everybody's watching on TV

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Laila pick me up
You're a good girl, you're a great dog
My bones are the new space junk
You can play with them if you want

Greater Good (Laika)

written for r/songaweek 2024 - week 19 (Theme: Lost Dog Laika)

-Laika-

A bullet race across
the bending pond
We play with pawns
A dog sees God

The dare to catch
a sky of stars
We make our move
by chasing cars

No skin to make the call
No next of kin
A vagabond, a ball of tin

This tiny room
in endless space
will be the place
will be the place
will be the place...

You're on your way
pat the night and the day

Laika

The song of the week theme was about Laika who was a dog that was sent into space on a one way suicide mission. So I wrote the first verse about that and then the other verses about how we treat animals badly.  I'm not a vegan because I am also an inferior  like the final verse covers, but I definitely think it's a good thing to do.

The music is pretty rough because I just write any old crap for song of the week. 

Inferior Being

Superior being
Dying in space
Not a mistake
Only part of a race
No food for days
To squeeze her in place

If she had a voice
To communicate
Inferior being
Would still find a way
To not hear her pain
Or shoe it away

The funny thing is
They think they're the highest
The funny thing is
They think they're the highest
It’s like they're being watched
And life is a big test
The craziest part
They think that they’re acing it

Superior being
Pacing his cage
The bitter taste
Of the rust on his chains
Longing for space
And the other apes

They teach him a trick
Then beat him for it
Inferior being
Has got a big stick
So he thinks he's the shit
Licking his lips

The funny thing is
He thinks he's the highest
The funny thing is
He thinks he's the highest
It’s like he's being watched
And life is a big test
The craziest part
He thinks that he’s acing it

Scrambling to heaven
Trampling to hell
They reproduce like rabbits

Trying to save the planet
By trying to spare themselves
Is healing fruit with maggots

Superior being
Scraped off a plate
Would you take comfort
In going to waste
Or that they had prayed
Thanked god for your taste

Inferior beings
Lie to themselves
Say that your stupid
With no sense of self
And your corpse on the shelf
Is needed for health

The funny thing is
We think we’re the highest
The funny thing is
We think we’re the highest
It’s like we’re being watched
And life is a big test
The craziest part
We think that we’re acing it

Inferior Being (for song a week theme Laika)

I want to join the community
cause I want the joy and the beauty but
Something in me's scared of being hurt
I know fear of rejection
Same old past projection
But that don't make it any easier

It takes a leap of faith
It takes a leap of faith
It takes a leap of faith
Every time

I know that you long for intimacy
can't seem to find the recipe
let them see, if they would see you right
If YOU let it go, will we catch you now?
YOU’ll never know til you try it out
Always seems a little fight or flight

Chorus 

If they Don't CATCH me
I will have to catch myself 
Oh god please catch me,
help me catch myself
If they don't LOVE me
I will have to love myself
Oh god, please love me
Help me love myself

La Douleur Exquise

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