7 in 7 | Session 5

The Thieving Magpie

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

Ho Ho It's Christmas

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