Writing songs.

For awhile now, I've wanted to write my own music.  I've been inspired by my friends, and my love of music and poetry.  I've been trying to write more stories, but all my brain wants to do in prose are monologues and essays. So while I'm kicking my brain's butt into shape (I hope that's possible) I've been on a song writting kick.  First, here's another song I've been working on.  Again, it's a work in progress, but it's got a pretty melody and I like some of the phraseology, so here it is:

Arizona

I’m blinded by the city lights

No God no truth and oh no light

Ready to go

Somewhere the skyline’s bare

As the blankness I in your empty stare

When I tell you I’m leaving tonight

     For Arizona

     Where the sun’s always shining

     Till the sky’s lit by diamonds

     Arizona

     They say the grass is always greener

     But there I'll have none to compare.

Night and day I fight to dream

But waking up I find tears gleam

in my eyes

Please, tell me that there’s something here

I’m never gonna  find out there

Far away

     In Arizona

     Where the sun’s always shining

     Till the sky’s lit by diamonds

     Arizona

     They say the grass is always greener

     But there I'll have none to compare.

I’m not ready to leave you

Cause my heart still believes you

Love me

So give me one thing to believe in

To keep me from leavin'

tonight

     For Arizona

     Where the sun’s always shining

     Till the sky’s lit by diamonds

     Arizona

     They say the grass is always greener

     But there I'll have none to compare.

But some days when you see me

Looking far away

 you’ll know that I’ve gone

     To Arizona

     Where the sun’s always shining

     Till the sky’s lit by diamonds

     Arizona

     They say the grass is always greener

     But there I'll have none to compare.

I went to Arizona for a week, and whenever life overwhelms me I find myself missing it.  So I wrote this song.  

and in exchange for reading my experimentations without even a melody to make them better, here are some of my favorite lyrics written by my friends:

Rough Draft:

(Rome)

You're the capital of corrupt creativity and compromise

you're the Rome all the roads lead to just to die...

Kim Spears:

(Go Back)

We can go back he said
like a parenthesis
cups what’s supposed to be
uttered implicitly
We can go back
and spin
tales that we’ve never told
travel to place unknown
and fly on the wings you’ve flown
to unsow th seeds you’ve sown
Can we go back?

Blind Man Leading:

(Sir Lestat)

Down one more twilight road

somewhat crippled, but just in your soul...

There's just no sunlight left in your hair

To recollect.  It's been 500 years, 

yet you still stop for the breeze in the lilacs

that you just couldn't live without.

(Parachute Embrace)

I could recite the perfect opening to a timless romantic play

but that won't weave your love into a heart so frayed

I guess we weren't as brilliant as the public hope

with inspiration stuck in the back of our throats

Chris and Jenna:

(The Next Best Thing)

How can I hope to live with just one wife

To keep my heart with her and her alone

When so many things say reach for what you want

and Love will find you on it's own

But on its own, love never came

So I walked this road, and I've come aways 

but these girls with golden hair

just cry out love afair

and I will stare when sirens start to sing

so how can I say I"m with you all the way

If I"m always looking for the next best thing?

How can I hope to live for just one God

So many things are trying to replace

I see them shine reflections in my eyes

Blind me so I can not see his face

So I erase the God I've known 

melt down the gold and formed my own.

(Don't know this one's name, it's an old one!)

By this time my eyes have acquired 

their very first coat of glaze

and the colors in yours that I once admired 

have faded to mid-tones and grays

...and my wandering heart

it is sure to wander away

from the beautiful lie that it loved not another

...so how can you say that love is forever?

(I don't know about you)

Hey, you- slightly confused

Weary of falling too far

I'll be waiting around 

wanting to know who you are

...

Hey you cautious to move

taking one step at a time

right now, over and out

is pulling me further from fine

and I don't know about you-

But I do better when you are around me

Speaking the truth that confounds me

berates me and tells me to grow up

start looking for once at the whole cup

instead of the part that is not there

let's focus on the part that is there

So yes, Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope you found something you like! BML and Chris and Jenna are on itunes if you want to listen to snippets of their songs :)