7 songs (sketches / ideas) in 7 days. (4/2024)

7-in-7 | Session 1

A Seven Day Songwriting Challenge Starting July 5, 2024

7-in-7 | Session 2

7-in-7 | session 3

7 in 7 | Session 4

7 in 7 | Session 5

Song by Chris Tomlin
Arranged & Performed by Atomic Tangerine

Let God Arise

Our Song Remains

Day 2 or 7in7

It’s Tuesday night 
and we’re alright 
No phones or fights
Ooh ooh ooh it’s taco night

It’s Tuesday night
And all is right
No phones or fights
Ooh ooh ooh it’s taco night

Taco NIght

I'm Done

To My 7in7 Peeps

ONE KISS (One Last Thing To Try)

My Love Is Forever

LOVE NEVER FAILS (To Leave Me Behind)

Prompt
1. In 6/8
2. Chorus is 10 words or less
3. Response to another song (John Mayer's "Your Body Is A Wonderland")

Theme parks are for suckers
Just cotton candy lovers
While thrilling to begin
Every ride always ends
Dizzy descent then forgotten 

If spinning is the mission
Your failure is admission 
You gotta pay up if you want to get down!

Love is the price and the prize
Love is the price and the prize

How tall must your high be
You line jump all my day dreams
Everyone is your game
Until I’m the one to blame 
Dealt with, discarded, forgotten 

If spinning is the mission
Your failure is admission 
You gotta pay up if you want to get down!

Love is the price and the prize
(Everything for anything)
Love is the price and the prize
(Anything for everything)
Everything for anything
Anything for everything 
Love is the price and the prize

Not riding, it’s walking
Not dying, it’s talking
The wonder of landing
Together still standing 

My love is the mission
Your love is admission
You gotta pay up if you wanna get down

Love is the price and the prize
(Everything for anything)
Love is the price and the prize
(Anything for everything)
Everything for anything
Anything for everything 
Love is the price and the prize

Theme Parks Are For Suckers (Love Is The Price And The Prize)

It’s ok to wake up sad
How you feel is neither good nor bad
You just being present
You just being you
You are the gift
Not what can you do
Living means we’re sometimes sad

Locking up our feelings
Deep down can seem grownup 
But hurt can hurt more than just us
When feelings flood back up

Feelings are important
But easy to confuse
Sometimes stepping the next step
Is all we have to choose 

It’s ok to wake up mad
How you feel is neither good nor bad
You just being present
You just being you
You are the gift
Not what can you do
Living means we’re sometimes mad

Letting go of judgement
Accepting who you are
Talking with a patient friend
Sure can take you far

When you give your feelings
Space and time to breathe
A weight might lift or nothing change
But you will be more free

It’s ok to wake up glad
How you feel is neither good nor bad
You just being present
You just being you
You are the gift
Not what can you do
Living means we’re sometimes glad

It's Okay (To Wake Up Sad)

Prompt: Play “Wordle” and use all the guesses.

I come from outer space
To carry out my mission
To catch a glimpse of how
To tile and caulk my kitchen
You see where I am from
We all live in one cabin
But now we must rebuild 
Because of Debra’s canon

We warned her to be careful 
She told us not to fret
Debbie had it all worked out
Her great experiment 
An eating revolution 
There would be no more line
All the cabin would be fed
In a fraction of the time

With open mouths and wider eyes
We lined up to be fed
While Debbie filled her canon
With sloppy joes and bread
To say it ended badly
understatement of the year
Nothing’s left except us few
And why I’m standing here.

Because Of Debra's Canon

I’m tired
so very tired 
Too tired to stop the shaking
I’m breaking
Exhausted quaking
The nightmare of no longer taking
Is taking its toll

Broken for beauty
Shattered to spread
Torn out to tune in
Walk with the dead

 Give and take
Take to live tell me
What’s it take
To forgive how we

Overcome 
Over some
After all
Take the fall

Fall
To
Sleep

Give And Take (Take To Live)

Prompt: Write from the perspective of a bad guy
James Bond villan

Sure you got moves
a little style
Be a big shot for a while 
Oh I know
about your double “O”
But I’m triple vile

I’ve got sharks with laser beams
I’m the baddest bad you’ve ever seen. 

Easy as that
Fell into my trap
Not such a big shot anymore
I took all your gear
never leavin’ here
Can’t wait show you what’s in store

( I’ve got) robot barbie death machines
Jimmy, I’m the baddest bad you’ve every seen 

paper cuts and tangerines
I’m the last face you’ll ever see!

The Badest Bad (You've Ever Seen)

How Great Thou Art

7-in-7 Session 3 | Day 1
Write a song featuring the name of a person.

Tyler doesn’t need a stranger just say he’s okay
Tyler’s got the passion to make music every day
Tyler’s got a dream - a dream and a way
Tyler’s kicking back while we all fight to finish each day.

Tyler Tyler Tyler Tyler what do you say
Another writing challenge is starting today
Tyler Tyler Tyler Tyler where did you go?
Tyler’s gone to Mexico

Tyler doesn’t need another way to prove it to you
Tyler doesn’t have to ask for any more stuff to do
Tyler’s got a plan- a plan sure to win
Tyler’s waiting now and watching for his ship to come in

Tyler Tyler Tyler Tyler what do you say
Another writing challenge is starting today
Tyler Tyler Tyler Tyler where did you go?
Tyler’s gone to Mexico

Tyler

7-in-7 Season 3 | Day 2
Write a song about getting a great gift.

My name is Jeremy, and I’m here to say,
Christmas morning got me feelin’ lit today.
Fresh fallen snow, light’s glowin’ bright
Couldn’t hardly sleep a wink last night

Down the stairs fast and straight for the tree
No more waiting for what Santa brought me.
Three big boxes with my name on the labels
An old 4 track and 2 turntables

Best gift ever, true that, no doubt,
Drop those needles, make the records spin out.
Loop it up, mix it down, bring it all back,
Two turntables and an old four-track!

Santa came through, knew just what I needed
This best gift contender that could never be defeated.
So I hit the four-track and spun the vinyl down,
It wasn’t long before my beats were shakin’ this town!

Best gift ever, true that, no doubt,
Drop those needles, make the records spin out.
Loop it up, mix it down, bring it all back,
Two turntables and an old four-track!

Jingle bell bass, yeah, got Santa groovin’.
Scratchin’ so fresh, got the reindeer movin’.
Forever changed and I’m never lookin’ back (Cause I got) Two turntables and an old four-track!

Best gift ever, true that, no doubt,
Drop those needles, make the records spin out.
Loop it up, mix it down, bring it all back,
Two turntables and an old four-track!

Best Gift Ever (2 Turntables and an old 4 track)

7-in-7 Session 3 | Day 3

A song about loosing a belief or something you no longer believe.

This is 
My voice
The one I was born with
The one that you gave me
Just like yours, just smaller 
Still
My voice
I’m trying it out for size and I was wondering if you would like to hear all it can do
My voice
I thought
I thought
You would look away from
That light in your fingers 
And see me when you heard 
My voice
I thought
I thought
My voice
I won’t bother you
Again

My Voice

7-in-7 session 3 | Day 4

Write a song with multiple time signatures

Its been too long since I saw you smile
It’s been too long to be fair
You lift me as high as these stars
Tonight that’s all we can share

The same moon
the same stars
tonight I’ll share it with you

It’s been too  long since I held your hand
It’s been too long and a day
I’m coming home no matter the cost
The night sky will show me the way

The same moon
the same stars
tonight I’ll share it with you

The same moon
 the same stars
Will bring me home to you


Same Moon Same Stars

7-in-7 Session 3 | Day 5

Write a song about a random Wki Article

Deep in the depths of DNA,
Lies a map that shows the way.
A sequence to shape And guide,
Proteins made of nucleotides.

Oh, the story of life, every cycle retold
In every gene, the secrets unfold.
Splicing and shifting, a code as they weave,
Unlocking the past in what we perceive.

A tableau of species old and new,
Tracing the grooves past ages drew.
DNA paves a protein road
But only the stretches that carry a code.

Oh, the story of life, every cycle retold
In every gene, the secrets unfold.
Splicing and shifting, a code as they weave,
Unlocking the past in what we perceive.

Oh, the story of life, every cycle retold
In every gene, the secrets unfold.
Splicing and shifting, a code as they weave,
Revealing the past and how we believe.

DNA Coding Sequences

7 in 7 | Session 4 - Day 1
Prompt: Write to a villain 

"We're Gone"
Murder
Is hot on your breath
As your tongue rends my world to ash

My blood
Freezing at your voice
As your lies cut to the bone every slash

We're gone
We've already left
Going to Disney without you!
(Repeat)

We're Gone

7 in 7 | Day-2
Make a song with 'Easter Eggs" (explain them or not)

Include Easter eggs in your song (explained or not)

A missionary man was never the goal
Someone else’s plan but I paid the toll
Meeting the demand, anything to get through
Not hard to understand how I lost me too

Forty years sober but high on you
Thinking’ things over to feel what’s true
Keep getting’ older but you’re here too
Head on your shoulder taking in the view

Look at us, back at the start
The way was clear, work the plan
But just like us, plans fall apart
but we’re still here, hand in hand

How strange we would appear
If younger us were here 
But they are far behind 
And we are far more kind

Look at us, where we are now
Mystery dragged us to this land
And just like us, lands change somehow 
No place else I’d rather stand
Still with you, hand in hand

Look At Us

Always Music First

7-in-7 | Session 4 - Day 4

Purity promise
Got you good and scared
Better stay a virgin 
Gotta be prepared 

Here at the party
They come and say hello
What are their intentions?
How far will this go?

Just sitting in the couch
Their hand moves close to you
Ready for some action 
You know just what to do

Tickle fight
Tickle fight

For your life
Tickle fight

Tickle fight
Tickle fight

It’s alright
Tickle fight

It’s the height 
of your night 
on the floor
Tickle fight

Camping for Jesus
Romance in the stars
Alone with the youth group,
One guy and guitar

Extended worship session
Around the camp fire
Nothing like repression 
To heighten the desire

Back on the bus
With everything to loose 
Ready for some action 
What future will you choose?

Tickle fight
Tickle fight
(Oh oh)
For your life
Tickle fight
(Let’s go)

Tickle fight
Tickle fight
(Just us)
It’s alright
Tickle fight
(On this bus)

It’s the height 
of your night 
keepin’ right
Tickle fight

Tickle Fight

Things Aren't Great

I pooped in a box

7 in 7 |  Day 7

Prompt: write a song that reflects a through line of the last 6 songs of this challenge.

"Tried To Write A Song"
I tried to write a song like a real song writer
But it sounded like every other songwriter song

I tried to write a song like a real rock and roller
But it sounded like I didn’t have the fight to fight what’s wrong

Nothing ever worked 
More boring every day
Til I finally woke up 
And made music my way!

So now I write like me write like me
To be free I write like me
I left the competition I left the fear
So now you write like you write like you
To be true just write like you
You’re the only you that we want to hear
So I write like me.


I tried to write a song like a radio chart topper
But it sounded like I was only in it for the pay

I tried to write a song like my favorite Grammy winner
But they’re already given the Grammy for that song away

Tried To Write A Song

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand

7 in 7 | Session 5
PROMPT: Write a song in one hour.

I wander away 
cause time pulls at my bones
Not long from today
I’ll stumble back home

one foot then another
time marches away
I know if I caught up
It’d be a new day

Time’s never waited 
So I’m behind you
Time keeps promising
But I can’t break  through

The part of me broken
and the part of my brain
that could ever achieve it
are on win the same

Looking for an anchor
something to hold on
in my arms one hour
the next and your gone

Time’s never waited 
So I’m behind you
Time keeps promising
But I can’t break  through

Time's Never Waited

7 in 7 | Session 5
PROMPT: Write something about being overwhelmed

I won’t cry
I won’t cry
I can bleed, I can die
But I can’t cry

I won’t stop
I won’t stop
I can fall from the top
But I can’t stop

It just keeps comin’
It just keeps stackin’
Heavy head
Foundation’s crakin’

Yesterday took 
it all and then some
Can’t recall
the last time I won

I won’t rest
I won’t rest
I can show up undressed 
But I can’t rest

One thing more
After another 
Lost myself
Where is my mother

Don’t need more
Of your judgin’
I can’t love
But I need lovin’

From here the view is underneath 
From here we breath through gritted teeth
From here our path is overgrown
Forced to carry everything we (can’t / won’t) let go

And one thing more
After another 
Lost myself
Where is my mother

I don’t need more
Of your judgin’
I can’t love
But I need lovin’

I can’t love
But I need lovin’

Overwhelmed

7 in 7 | Session 5
PROMPT: Finish and old song idea. (I did not follow the prompt, but wrote a song about not finishing something instead)

I found the note 
you wrote before getting sick
You still had hope
When I was trying to pray some sense into it .

Even though you’ve passed through the pain.
It’s your voice reading in my brain
_____

"Don’t give up
We’ll see this through
If there cannot be an us, there’s still a you.
I hate the way that sounds, but true is gonna true
Show up for your life, ‘cause I love it when you do"
_____

I couldn’t finish your note
I just laid down to dream of you and me instead
Of you making an us
making an us  from your side of the bed 

I couldn't finish your note.

7 in 7 Session 5 | Day 4
PROMPT: Christmas song

Another cookie for me?
another two or three?
something in my coffee?
Little sip of Baileys?

More lights for the tree?
Another gift for me?
some more holly?
Eatin’ treats like they’re free?

mistletoe ‘cause you know?
nowhere else to go?
lean in a little close?
holiday we love the most?

Ho Ho It's Christmas

7 in 7 session 5 | Day 5
PROMPT: Two things you love that you can't always have both

I need to be loved
just as I am
But I want to be
someone you ike

Need Vs. Want

7-in-7 Session 5 | Day 6

Prompt: Song with another language in it.

Bonjour bienvenu 
Welcome and hello
Cava? Cava.
Relax! Enjoy the show
No better place in all of Paris
(For the most) wonderful wonders you ever will see!
Allons y. Let’s go!
Bon soir! Enjoy the show!

Bonjour. Welcome To The Show!

7-in-7 Session 5 | Day 7

Maybe it’s compulsion
maybe it’s guilt
Maybe I’m just guarding 
the image I’ve built

I just can’t let it go
I can’t simply quit
It bullies my brain
‘till I’m done with it.

It might be much later than we
would ever think it would finally be
But here it is now plain to see
I’m finished with it and it’s done with me.

whatever the reason
whatever the cost
whatever I’m hoping
to gain that was lost

I just can’t let you go
I can’t simply quit
Love compels my bones  
and I welcome it.

It might be much later than we
would ever think it would finally be
Better late than never we’ll see
how love will  break the both of us free.

After all this time, and all we’ve been through
It’s never too late, to keep waiting for you. 
After all this time, and all we’ve been through
It’s never too late, to keep on waiting for you. 

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