A Seven Day Songwriting Challenge Starting July 5, 2024

7-in-7 | Session 2

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)

Prompt: Write a love song about, featuring, or through a mundane task.

Sticky fingers   
Shining juicebox smiles
They can never get enough
Of playing games on screens 
The basement TV beams 
There is nothing more they love

(So I) wipe wipe wipe the game controller
and plug plug plug it back in
Won’t be long ‘till someone needs to
play again

They challenge me
To show them how it’s done
So I join them on the floor
Soon we are all laughing
At my old man skills 
There’s nobody I love more

(So I) wipe wipe wipe the game controller
and plug plug plug it back in
Won’t be long ‘till I have to show them
how it’s done again

(So I) wipe wipe wipe the game controller
and plug plug plug it back in
Love can’t wait ‘till someone needs to
play again

7-in-7 | Session 2

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