This might well be one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful songs I’ve heard from you, Kent. Truly, this is quite evocative... Oof, all the feels in this one.

Better than staying the same. Love this 😊

Well done my friend. I'd love to write a song with you someday...

A very effective melody, Kent. Love your vocals on this. The sparse arrangement puts the focus on your voice and I think it works well.

So glad I got my tickets before the train filled up, Sapville is stunning in the fall. I relate to the feeling of writing a string of mopey tracks, I used to write a lot of them and somehow it just changed one day.

Feeling smaller...chiping Stone from statue... Don't recognize me! Brilliant! Total song!🙂❤️🎶👏 by David Easterling

Oh I like what you did there with the rhyming "sames"

Well goshdarnit I liked this mopey song to Sapville! Really nice writing and performance. Especially enjoyed these ending lyrics working with the why where when what who motif.

wow this vocal performance may be among your best, such soul here

"Ooga Looga Wyma Ryma" (#401, 201005)

Aina' nuthin' like a girl makes you drop yer vowels
On the kitchen floor
She be cookin' up some dumplin's I be trippin' meatballs
Comin' back fer more

An' I'm tryin' to tell her sumthin' 'bout you look so nice
'Xcept I sound like a fool
Words 'er flippin' sidewers comin' out my mouf
In between the drool

Ooga looga wyma ryma baby what's your name
Chuga luga hunka lunka baby say it again
Youda cute-a meesa please-a winkie dinkie derpee doo
Banana fana fonanna fe fi fum teach me how to talk to you

Took sum clarses back in carlege wit' sum langejjes
A little French and some Mex
F'Ida' know'd then I'd a showed maybe I cudda' lerned
Mora' what to expex

Talkin' gibbrish ain't so purdy I regrets it now
Yeah I gotta' admit
I dang messed it up I never got my educacione
And I sound like ... not good!

Week 41a - Ooga Looga Wyma Ryma (201005)

"All Hat And No Cattle" (#402, 201006)

All hat and no cattle all bark and no bite
If you'd a told me I'd a stayed home tonight
Tried to be patient but I ran outta' luck
I don't seem to be able to give one single fumbling care right now

All bread and no butter all spark and no flame
House keeps on winnin' I'm losin' again
Time marches forward and the later it gits
I just keepin thinkin' how I'm sick of this charade

All mouth and no trousers all balls and no strikes
Guess you done fooled me once more than twice
Here I am lonesome and drunk in a ditch
Can't find my lighter ain't that a big let down

All sizzle no ribeye all work and no play
No steak for my Stetson no A-1 today
Sometimes you're the pigeon and sometimes the truck
But somehow you always seem to get fudge on your hands

Week 41b - All Hat And No Cattle (201006)

Ifs and Thens - Song a Week 2020, Week 41

Copyright Erin Wolf 2020

Prompt for SAW Week 41 - Ooga Looga Wyma Ryma
A little light teasing for the prompt creator, @jimtristan. ;)

i want an ooga looga
wyma ryma honey
an ooga looga 
wyma ryma dear
i know this is silly for
you to hear
but i need that ooga looga
in my ear

wyma ryma all the words
ooga looga just for the birds
a little bit of wyma ryma
for the nerds
they'll join in in their droves & herds

i want an ooga looga
wyma ryma honey
an ooga looga 
wyma ryma dear
i know this is silly for
you to hear
but i need that ooga looga
in my ear

i'm not sure what ooga looga means
it seems like James is full of beans
well i'm a ryma wyma this song
just for Eileen
who left him hanging
at the Dairy Queen

i want an ooga looga
wyma ryma honey
an ooga looga 
wyma ryma dear
i know this is silly for
you to hear
but i need that ooga looga
in my ear

i know this is silly for 
you to hear
but i need that ooga looga
in my ear

Oogla Looga Wyma Ryma

You know the tricks of many trades 
A master of none
You always say you’ll learn how to play
That old guitar but you’re just sitting in the sun 

Did you wake up in ur clothes again
All your dreams are held within the night 
Let’s just carry on Lets just pretend 
Another day is dawning in your blue eyes 

There’s still time 
Mercies rise 
theres still time
for you and I 


You know the tricks of many trades 
A master of none
You always say you’ll learn how to play
That old guitar but you’re just sitting in the sun

You ve left a trail of gifts behind
Still waiting to be seen
Ur all too quick now to believe in  the next big thing

still time SAW

I see you in the morning and the words stick in my throat
Alarms ring when I look you in the eye and so I don't
I’ve learned to take a deep breath, then I slowly let it out
Every day I notice every time that you're around

and I want you to be mine all the time

I WANT you when I'm near you and I want you from afar
I WANT you with my body and I want you with my heart
I WANT to find a moment we can talk with just us too
I want to make you want me in the way that I want you

Cause I want you to be mine all the time

All the time, all the time, all the time
That I spend dreaming of you
I could BUILD a house of cards so high
The jack of hearts would touch the sky
If I found out you feel the way I do

Cause I want you to be mine all the time

I Want You To Be Mine

I remember when you said "let's not let this get complicated"
"Let's keep it sweet and simple," but I was uneducated

Weeks turned into months, a town into what we made it
A garden grows where it wants to

And you maintained that you were leaving, you didn't know the dance called separated
And I knew there was another life, on another coast, that waited

But you were too kind when I played the song called fascinated
A river runs where it flows through
Whether or not you want it to

And it was sweet, and I was simple, and I was captivated
And now it's gone, and I am bitter, and things are compli-doot-doot-cated
 
I remember when you said "let's not let this get complicated"
And I know now, what you meant then
But I'd still fall for it, if you said it again
The heart wants what it wants
Whether or not you want it to

And it was sweet, and I was simple, and I was captivated
And now it's gone, and I am bitter, and things are compli-doot-doot-cated

And it was sweet, and I was simple, and I was captivated
And now it's gone, and I am bitter, and things are compli-doot-doot-cated

Bitter And Complicated - Song a Week 2020, Week 42

The train this week is leaving for sapville. All aboard!

I started with the idea of someone realizing that the "I" in "I love you" had changed while repeating that phrase over time and it kinda went full mopey from there. I really gotta write an upbeat positive tune next week - you'd think "simple and sweet" woulda been the one, but whelp, here we are.

****

Don't like to think what I am leaving behind
It's easier that way
If I tell you that I'm sleeping fine
It's easier that way
I've been falling all to pieces
I've been thinking you've been doing the same
Don't like to think what I am leaving behind
But it's better than staying this same

It's all coming down

Cause I don't recognize me
I've been wondering who am I
In I love you

You've been talking about growing old
I feel smaller now every day
Chipping stone from a statue
I've been wondering what will remain

Cause I don't recognize me
I've been wondering who am I
In I love you
I don't know who loves you

We could keep things sweet and simple
But when we put it like that 
It's hard but what I'm leaving behind
Is getting hollower every day

It's not that I don't wanna stay
It's who'd be left in my place

It's all coming down

Cause I don't recognize me
I've been wondering who am I
In I love you
I don't know who loves you

I've been wondering why
I love you
I've been wondering when
I should be leaving soon, should be leaving soon
I've been wondering where
I'll be going to
I've been wondering what who I used to be would do

Sweet and Simple - Song a Week 2020, Week 42

Sometimes, we fight  - rarely, thankfully
‘Cause I'm not made for that
Though I seem to hold my ground
Inside I'm slipping back
I find every time

When you tell me that
I'm a sewer rat
A little part of me agrees with you and
Kind of thinks it might be true..and when
You SAY you can't believe 
that you stay with me
That part it can't believe it either and
I wonder if you understand

We're both normal fucked up grown ups
With our triggers too
I'm just trying to own my partner
Like I always do
I find every time

When you tell me that
I'm a sewer rat
A little part of me agrees with you and
Kind of thinks it might be true..and when
You SAY you can't believe 
that you stay with me
That part it can't believe it either and
I wonder if you understand

That part will just repeat 
those things you said oh endlessly - 
Endlessly repeat them in my mind
And for every moment that I 
hear you laying in to me
I lay into myself a hundred times

Though I've known I'm like this
Years now, still this parts the same
Thinking if I beat you to it, somehow I'll be safe
only leads back me to this place

When you tell me that
I'm a sewer rat
A little part of me agrees with you and
Kind of thinks it might be true..and when
You SAY you can't believe 
that you stay with me
That part it can't believe it either and
I wonder if you understand

Sewer Rat

First three lines are Robert Frost's. 

*****

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say the world will in ice
From what I've tasted of desire
And while I'm sorry for the funeral pyre

Those who hold with fire pray
The rain will come and douse the flame
Forgetting hardened hearts of man
Who hold the oceans in their hand

Fire's a mind all of it's own
In time it gets out of control
So when it gets too late to halt
It feels like the fire's fault

But when the world will end in ice
Someone has to make a choice
To lay down in a wintered spring
And to take the blame for everything

So walk the world at the end of days
Past histories that leaving made
The world is full of heroes, burned
And villains into statues turned

While we all can learn from time
And say that we would want the ice
In time we are revealed as liars
Everyone would take the fires

Sweet and Simple - Song a Week 2020, Week 42

Charlatan, PE

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