FAWM 2019

Jack Be Nimble

Michael's #7 song for February Album Writing Month. Lyrics by Kathleen Little.  

You Got Butter In Your Car

You Already Know (v5)

A Piece Of This Feeling (lyrics by Siebass, music and vocals by Ashley Brewer)

Photo by Texas Wedding Photographer, Matthew T Rader: matthewtrader.com

Darlin' you're a picture
That I wanna take
I'm up inside my mind with a pistol for a brain

Got an itchy trigger finger
I wanna shoot it straight
Just when I think I know you, girl, that's when you let me down again

Woohoo (say what ya mean girl)
Woohoo (before it's too late)
Woohoo (say what ya mean cuz)
Time ain't on your side...on your side

Now darlin', I'm a simple boy
With simple needs
I like a girl who tells me straight if she wants to she can leave

If you're a wandrin'
Then that's ok
I don't need your cherry red lips tryin' to tell me you wanna play

Woohoo (say what ya mean girl)
Woohoo (before it's too late)
Woohoo (say what ya mean cuz)
Time ain't on your side...on your side (repeat)

Time ain't on your side
Time ain't on your side
Time
Time
Time ain't on your side
Time 
Time
Time ain't on your side
Time ain't on your side



Time Ain't On Your Side

Money From The Sparks

Random progression/structure/title challenge. Sung to a titular character named Christmas.

Another all random muse tools; this one is a rap. The title I picked was "Yo, Christmas", and for this one, I assume the singer was telling a story about a man or woman named Christmas. The titles were pretty slim picking on this dice roll, but I think it works.

Testing in Garageband

Titular

yo christmas
killaz, coffin, england, outsider
friday ii the outta
soundtrack 700 treasure
scientist of brand choo

yo christmas

Lyric cloud

accept called creamed dark deep disconnected disintegrate false feeling found girl gradually greed head history lonely longer mind point reflector roadway savagery sometimes soul systems victim

struxxture

verse verse verse bridge verse 

plot spline

write a song in second person ("you") in which the main character is thinking out loud. the story takes place in the present, and the scene is a specific place. (diner)?

autochords progression

G Bm C Em

Lyrics

Lyrics
V1

You need a break from the roadway, something loose and informal
You stop in a diner and sit down to warm up 
You order creamed corn just hoping for normal
A worm-hole of darkness spinning in your head
Your teeth show a smile but your eyes are looking dead

Yo, Christmas

V2

Blink once, blink twice, then gather your thoughts
Eating food helps you bury all these feelings of loss
A slice of cherry pie bleeds just like your mind's eye
with doubt, sadness pain, want to hold it in so you try try
it's leaking out of your brain, before you go insane you put your fork in, for another bite

Yo, Christmas

V3

The systems you list them all out in your head
Facebook, snap, twitter, they make you all dead
on the inside while you run and hide in plain sight
your birthright was stolen before you realize your twin
that took it all is laughing and grinning, playing games outside

Yo, Christmas 

Br 

There just some things that you have to accept,
Darkness and greed, the feeling that they left 
you here, the victim, all alone in the dark
Touching the reflection of your digital heart
Disconnected, your reflection disintegrates into the smoke
A-million-fifty likes show them all that you woke
A bladed promise of love, a buried knife of false hope
But your parents are still dead, and fake kindness won't help you cope

Yo, Christmas

V4

Your history will repeat itself, but you've never read about a world with so much help
text, the context is staggering, but the meanings are hidden
hyperlinks leading out to paths that are forbidden
Your everything is overwritten with a smiling emoji
Don't ever let the pain show, only colon parentheses
Don't ever let the pain show, only colon parentheses 

Yo, Christmas 

Vextra

Named for a joyous day, but that was not the path you walked
In a world filled with savagery, you wanna spin back the clock
you knock your fist on the table, did it have to be like this, 
you miss growing up with your mom
and dad, when did things get so bad?

Disconnected/disintegrated all your reflections except for the internet 
a soulless lonely connection

yo, christmas

Yo Christmas

Challenge to write a song using only the 1, 4, and 5 in any combination of 4 without repeating save for verse, chorus, etc. Track name comes from the first progression.

1145pm

Lyrics written by Sonya Heller
Music created by Josh Siegel

Piano attempted. Success, questionable?

Lyrics below:

Somethin' About You 
(W Mine all Mine)
(c)2019 Sonya Heller Music- ASCAP

There’s something about you
Something funky
somethin’ cool
There’s something about you
anyone would be fool 
Not to notice
when you walk in to a room
Even flowers in Winter seem to bloom

atmosphere
love is here
crystal clear

So Stay in your cool zone
Feed your inner light
with all the things that groove you
and make you feel alright

times when things sound better
thru someone else's grapevine
You got your own connection
where all the stars align

it’s the thing that makes you different
makes you quirky makes you shine
Your very own music station
W mine all mine
W mine all mine

Somethin' about you, or W Mine All Mine

Lyrics and progression by Alex Klages
Music by Siebass

The challenge from Alex:

This FAWM, I'd like to propose a game idea I came up with, called the "Fake It Challenge". Maybe some of you have seen 'fake books' where the lyrics and the chords (and sometimes a little snippet of the melody) are given but not a fully fleshed out tune or song.

Likewise, the premise to this game is that I'd provide the participants with a fully finished song -- lyrics and chords all in place, but NO MELODY. (ie, a PDF or a GIF/JPG of a page of a song) Then the game participants would each record their own version of what they think the song would sound like-- and add 1 to their collection of songs!

Does this sound interesting to any of you?

EDIT for clarity:
I'm not regarding this as a 'collab' but rather as a game. Tag your completed songs #fakeit and I'll come listen but no need to add me as collaborator. Cheers!

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Am G
The radiant glow of the setting sun
Am G
Brings to mind all we have done
Em G
Recalls the ever-changing years
Em D 
And now my eyes fill up with tears

Chorus:
Em G
I can't fake it anymore
Em G
I can't take it anymore
D
Now that you're gone
C
It's hard to move on
G
I can't fake it anymore

Verse 2 (as verse 1):
The ebbing tides of the ocean shore
They bring a sadness to my soul
Prompt my mind of our old days
And leaves me roiling like the waves

Chorus

Bridge:
D
Since you've gone
C G
I know that I can't stay
D
Since you've gone
C G
I've got to find a way
D
Since you've gone
Em
How can I break from this old dance?
C
Since you've gone
D
I need to find a new romance...

Chorus

Fake It

This turned out very different than I imagined. Almost beat poetry, but I dig it.

Lyrics by Richard Provan (Quork)
Music by Siebass

Lyrics

The tiger in the zoo is just like me and you
Eyes soften when I sing Dave Matthews

You were the one before we’d ever seen each other
Passionate words on a screen
We clicked and kept on clicking
Talking late into the night sharing our dreams
Now we’re making plans for the rest of our lives together

Can’t believe how fast a guy can fall

Funny how we read between the lines
Fill in the silences inventions of the mind
The women in my office are tickled pink
Sent me off with fundies sex dice and feathers
Then we met and you weren’t who you seemed
Who I’d dreamed

The tiger in the zoo is just like me and you
Wild and caged no future to look forward to

Back at home I’m not talking the rest of my life
Not meeting peoples’ eyes
Yeah it was pretty good I guess
You know these things always take time

You hold all the cards and my heart in your hands
Sometimes I think you’re just looking for an excuse to blame me for the breakdown
You talk too much why do you disappear
Why can’t we be friends I expect more from my friends
Why do you need to share your every feeling just another lying guy

Can’t believe how far a guy can fall

I deleted all your emails when we crashed and burned
Those beautiful words of growing passion growing colder
Yesterday I found our rise and fall in my sent folder

The tiger in the zoo is just like you and me
Slow motion everlasting tragedy

TigerIntheZoo

Collab with my buddy, topic for lyrics was "trimming the fat"

Lyrics by Michael Stettes
Music by Siebass

Excess Nexus

VERSE

so you got rid of the scraps
leftovers, knick-knacks
the toxic and fair-weathered
wasted breaths and silent letters

but they didn't go away
just got a new place to stay
beyond your simple science
they formed an alliance

one day they caught you sleeping
crept up on you creep creeping
stuck your body in a vice
and ran off into the night

you woke up surrounded
body trapped and mind confounded
far as your eyes could see
were things you didn't need

PCH 

now you're in a weird dimension
faced with deadly intention
you were done with these fools
but they weren't done with you

CHORUS:

Surrounded by your trash
how long will you last
in the 
EXCESS NEXUS 

You kicked 'em to the curb
but now it's your turn
in the
EXCESS NEXUS

(Solo)


Tried to trim the fat but the fat fought back!
Tried to let it go but it won't let go!
Guess you’re stuck in the 
EXCESS NEXUS

A sad fate
with no escape
from the
EXCESS NEXUS

Fake It

Siebass

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