So far inspiration has resolutely denied any attempt at writing songs.
What are you reading?
I found that sometimes the lack of output is because of lack of input.
What works for me is to have a bunch of books going at once and reading a couple a pages a day from each.
The types of books I am referring to are "Quote of the Day" or bigger works broken down into daily readings, but to also keep a novel going in the background in life's wait times of the routine.
I've also tried reading a lot of songwriting books from "how-to's" to biographies.
........but then again there are times when it just isn't coming. Like I've mentioned, Sundays are much better times for me to write than starting Monday nights after a day of work life.
Here are some things I try when we get a new topic:
Think of a flash of inspiration....if nothing then
Think literally of the elements of the assignment....if nothing then
Think symbolically of the elements of the assignment....if nothing then
Google some quotes about the topic....if nothing then
Google some pictures about the topic....if nothing then
Grab a guitar and start noodling around....record any interesting tidbits....if nothing more then
Go through a book of song titles I bought (Here are 12 free preview pages)
http://www.freado.com/read/8163/song-ideas-3000-titles-phrases-and-hooklines-to-inspire-songwriters-and-lyricists
Go back and reread the topic....if nothing then
Look through my books of topics or stories might tie in....if nothing then
Look through on-line rhyming dictionaries....if nothing then
Look through my hard copy rhyming dictionary....if nothing then
Read through lyrics of songs unrelated to the topic- this reminds me how the best lyrics are simple and straightforward
Here are some of the books I use
ISBN# 978-0375400810 Reading Lyrics: More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics
ISBN# 978-0375422003 Motown in Love: Lyrics from the Golden Era
ISBN# 978-1437644012 Lyrics by Sting
....if nothing then
Read though lyrics of songs on the same topic WARNING This is a Pandora's Box for me, sometimes it helps, but sometimes it gets the "other song" stuck in my head
....if nothing then sleep on it. Jot down any ideas that come in the middle of the night and/or first thing in the morning.....and throughout the day :wink:
....if nothing then pretty much repeat the same process the next day and the next day and the next. It takes me about 2-3 hours to go through this process.......
.......NOW if I am REALLY stuck by a Saturday night and have nothing, I will have already put 10-15 hours into the attempt to write about the topic.....usually something happens by then, but there have been weeks when nothing came and at the midnight hour, I just forced myself to write the first line of the first verse and keep writing.
Two songs I remember specifically doing this for were:
Y8W44 4orty
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=9599211
and
Y7W52 I Tripped Across Your Father's Spirit Today
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=8291125
...........All of this might sound like torture to some and take away all the "fun/joy" songwriting for others.
This is what works for me (and I really do enjoy the process or I wouldn't bother).
I think each songwriter should piece together their own "method". Sometimes it helps to see what others do to incorporate into their own method.
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Andrea Slope has a great step-by-step method in her book ISBN# 978-0876390870 "Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling"
Wishing the best for you, Vic.
James
moved from song thread comments since it seems to fit better here :arrow:
I think it would be more constructive to try to refine your lyrics a bit before posting. I rarely post the first thing that comes into my head. Write it down and come back to it later to see if it's going to be clear to someone who doesn't start out knowing what the song is about. The comments are likely to be more helpful than just "I don't get it."
OK
For whatever it's worth, I don't agree.
I think it can be helpful to get input at many levels of the songwriting process. Maybe some writers are better at generating ideas and others are better at finishing and everything in between.
I think it's fine to even post an idea and ask, "Does anyone have an idea where this could lead?"......so I don't agree the first post has to be a well reworked rough draft.....one's best effort....I see that as potentially limiting to one's creative process.
Take or leave what fits, but don't stop posting! :wink:
James
James, thanks for the encouragement. Other life events have me reconsidering my level of participation in online music/songwriting exercises in this hobby. Looking back at 2012, I have posted some forty odd songs/lyrics to the assignments here, and a few dozen more in various other challenges and exercises in local circle, FAWM and 50/90. Written a few dozen songs outside of assignments/challenges in NaSoAlMo, FAWM and 50/90 to complete those goals. There were only a few "assignment/challenges" songs that I liked well enough to learn. Way below the Pete Seeger - 1 in 10 song ideas worth finishing, 1 in 10 finished songs worth playing again - ratios :roll: . More often when I saw the titles again my reaction was "oh that one" :shock: than :D . It's not writers block, but lately it has not been fun. So I'm committing to myself to write when it is fun, no longer writing just to please others or to fulfill an assignment.
Hi All,
I've been having a lot of fun with this program.
It's incredibly easy and versatile. The have a free version and pay version
Web site:
http://www.write-music.com/
Youtube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLvBQP9WLQ
I used it on this week's assignment.
http://forums.guitarnoise.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=53991
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12069101
James
I just signed up for Songwriting #songwriting - a free @coursera online class. Join me at https://www.coursera.org/course/songwriting
Update: I don't know if this course is still open or not, but I find it amazing that at the opening over 63,000 people were enrolled in the course!
Coursera Songwriting Course Launches with over 63,000 students enrolled
http://www.patpattison.com/news/
It's been GREAT material.........and FREE!!! :mrgreen:
Thanks for the link James, I've signed up to :D .
Paul
This is a cool online tool if you want help generating some new chord progressions
I found a tool that is helpful to me today. I was trying to figure out a chord progression to a song Pico De Gallo by Trout Fishing in America. A web site called Chordify http://chordify.net/ . You enter a recording or a you tube video and it tells you the chords and the measures. It's not always correct but it is incredible.
https://www.coursera.org/course/songwriting
I had some time to watch a few of the videos with this Coursers class. The concept of "stable/unstable" eludes me.
I thought prosody was about having the melody fit the lyric. I was wrong.
The concept of "stable/unstable" eludes me.
I think part of the confusion might be it's one concept, but different ways to implement stability or instability.
This is how I remember the concepts.
Stability or instability refers to the emotional tone of the song and message; positive being more stable; negative being less stable....so 'happy' song stable.....sad/angst song unstable
How to create stable or unstable in the structure of the song:
One way is by the number of lines in each section; odd number being unstable, even number being stable.
Another way is the rhyming patterns of the last word in each line: AABB or ABAB stable....AABC or AXX being less stable or unstable
Another way is the types of rhymes in the last word of the rhyme; closer to perfect rhyme being most stable while consonance rhymes are least stable
AABB
Cat/Hat Blue/You....stable Perfect rhymes
Cat/Cub Blue/Black....less stable or unstable Consonance rhymes
Another way is in the music modes
stable being equivalent to 'bright'
unstable being equivalent to 'dark'
....so each flat added adds to the darkness or instability of the mode
lydian (1 sharp) most stable
Ionian (0 flats/sharps) ***to me this sounds most stable though
Mixolydian (I flat)
Dorian (2 flats)
Aeolian (3 flats)
Phrygian (4 flats)
Locrian (5 flats)
.....so the formula would be for a happy stable song, use the following:
Lyrical content/message positive
images and concrete details associated with happiness
happy ending to the story/song....or heading in that direction
even number of lines in each section
even/balanced rhyme scheme patterns like AABB or ABAB
perfect rhymes
Lydian (or Ionian) mode
for an unhappy unstable song, use the following:
Lyrical content/message negative
images and concrete details associated with sadness
sad ending to the story/song....or heading in that direction
uneven number of lines in each section
uneven/unbalanced rhyme scheme patterns
consonance rhymes
Locrian mode
I'm watching further videos as I get time. I have taken a couple song writing classes and workshops including a Lamb's workshop, Old Town School class and Kerrville Songwriters School but no one has ever introduced these concepts.
I
One thing I like about Pat Pattison's teaching is that it is very "how to"/hands on/step-by-step.
It's also what I don't like about his teaching. Following all the steps can feel more like work than fun, but it is productive.
It's a bit overwhelming to take on all at once, but continually rereading helps the information sink in over time.
This week's topic (Y12W36) to write a different POV from a previous song made me go back over the songs I've written since joining SSG.
Thank you, SSG! :mrgreen:
The first list is organized by POV.
The next list is organized by song style.
The last list is organized by the song's emotion.
1 Y8W19 Tomorrow Never Dies
1 Y9W19 Born on a Blue Day
1 Y8W14 Bangkok
1 Y8W11 Rain
1 Y9W37 Road Rage
1 Y8W7 A Kwanzaa Carol
1 Y7W6 The Melody
1 Y7W5 Rock 'n Rolls
1 Y1W19 Kiss Me
1 2012 FAWM Shut Up!
1 Y11W24 Nickles and Dimes
1 Y11W3 Water Turns to Wine
1 Y10W44 Los Angeles
1 Y11W39 Incredibly Short People
1 co-author King of the Road
1 Y7W26 Half-way
1 Y7W10 Stars
1 Coauthor Let's Remember Tomorrow
1 Y11W22 My Barong
1 Y11W2 Pocky Stick Day
1 Y10W25 Drive
1 Y7W13 Undercover
1 Y8W47 Run with Scissors
1 Y8W28 Chlorine
1 Y8W6 The Kiss of 2006
1 Y8W45 Midnight Snacks
1 Y9W51 Motor
1 Y9W43 Scarlet Letters
1 Y9W34 Cranberry Kites
1 Y9W33 Speed Graphic Baby
1 Y9W29 Stone Cutter
1 Y11W10 I've Got Nowhere to Go (and No Money to Get There)
1 Y10W46 Just Nuts
1 Y9W52 Pillow Fight
1 BMI #1 Friend to Buddha
1 Y9W39 Out of Date
1 Y9W34 Fifteen
1 Y9W28 Breathe in, Breathe out
1 Y11W16 Dave the Dihydrogen Monoxide Transparency Enhancement Facilitator
1 Y11W6 Whatever Happened to the You I Knew?
1 Y10W24 Nowhere Fast
1 Bridge to Eden
1 Y8W18 Because of Winn-Dixie
1 Y7W18 Michael
1 Y11W32 Monday Sundae
1 Y10W45 Vesper Sparrow
1 Y12W29 My Dulcimer
1 Y10W32 The Fly
1 2012 FAWM Mighty Close
1 Y9W18 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
1 Y8W46 Dream a Little Dream
1 2012 FAWM Love Fever
1 Y11W31 The Prisoner of Progress
1 Y8W3 Tequila Sunrise
1 Y7W4 Beautiful Mind
1 Y9W12 Home
1 Y9W16 Breakin' In
1 2012 FAWM Kayaks and Cruise Ships
1 Y11W52 Thinamajigs & Whatchamacallits (Nouns)
1 Y11W41 Carbon Man
1 Y11W20 Polly the Pretty Prep O' Sition
1 Y10W31 Mr. Apostrophe
1 2012 FAWM I was Walking on the Moon
1 2012 FAWM Hippo Mouse & Spider
1 Y9W46 "To be" a Student
1 Y11W18 When I was a Verb
1 Y8W1 I was Made in the USA
1 Y10W6 Christmas Surprise
1 Y10W42 Cold Water
1 Y9W8 Summer
1 Y11W1 It's Sunday Somewhere
1 Y10W49 The Night Guard
1 Y8W41 Snowman
1 Y10W35 Windows Open
1 Y8W30 Sun-Kissed
1 Y10W36 My Kazoo
1 Y12W15 Oh, Those High School Days
1 Y10W20 Rockin' Hair
1 2012 FAWM coauthor Scars, Cars and Mars
1 Y7W43 My Tattoos
1 Y11W25 Nobody's Fool
1 Y9W10 I've Changed
1 Y8W44 4orty
1 Y12W3 & Y1W20 Gypsy Woman
1 Y22W23 The Special
1 Y10W30 I was Sober Enough to Remember Your Number (And Drunk Enough to Call)
1 Y8W49 The Executioner's Lullaby
1 Y7W9 Ms. Keeto
1 Y11W51 The Corner of No and Where
1 Y11W50 First Love
1 Y11W38 Knock on Wood
1 Y11W21 Farms
1 Y11W11 Mama, Mama, Mama
1 Y11W14 Going Home
1 Y11W43 Locked Out of Heaven
1 Y11W8 Prepare for Winter
1 Y10W26 Counting Raindrops
1 Y8W50 coauthor 10,000 Words for Blue
1 Y8W2 The Lovely Bones
1 Y12W6 & Y1W21 Before There's an After
1 Y9W2 Love & War
1 Y12W1 Going To Strathmore for Christmas
1 Y11W29 For My Children
1 Y11W7 We Bring an Offering
1 Ps23
1 Y8W22 A Clockwork Orange
1 Y11W12 The English Lesson
1 Y12W18 Deadlines
1/2 Y11W42 The 7 1/2 Floor of the Mertin Flemmer Building
1/2 Y12W12 Thank you, Father
1/3 Y9W25 Mr. James Conrad
2 Y8W42 SOS 4115
2 Y12W34 Cabbages & Condoms
2 Y7W41 I Hate You!
2 Co-author Just Give a Little Love
2 FAWM co-author Twitter
2 Y12W23 A Normal Day
2 Y7W24 Les is More
2 Y7W16 Daddies and Daughters
2 Y7W12 Hero
2 Y8W9 Happy New Year!
2 Y7W36 Wedding Dance
2 Y12W36 & Y1W37 Mr. Right
2 FAWM #10 A Ballad from Your Ex
2 Y7W20 Belong
2 Y7W50 co-author Nathalia
2 Y12W21 Just Like You
2 Y9W36 Mint Oreo Milkshake
2 Y9W23 Favor
2 Y11W40 Prayer for Today
2 FAWM #3 You're a Someone
2 FAWM #2 Words
2 FAWM INFP
2 Tomorrow's Song
2 FAWM #4 Porch Light
2 Y8W16 Victory
2 Y8W20 Stand by You
2 FAWM #5 BFF
2 Y8W8 Smiles
2 Y7W52 I Tripped Across Your Father's Spirit Today
2 Y7W25 co-author We Got Pictures, We Got Proof
2 Y12W19 Start Again
2 Y10W43 Second Hand
2 Y10W41 Songwriters' Block
2 Y10W39 Aunt Kathy
2 Y10W14 Smile
2 Y11W40 Angelina
2 Coauthor Hard to Change (the One you Love)
2 Y11W13 Empty Dance Floor
2 Y9W27 Songkran
2 Y9W30 They Say
2 Y9W14 Saint 451
2 FAWM #9 Gossamer
2 Y9W31 Constantine
2 Y8W27 co-author Where the Wild Things Are
2 Y9W9 Mark of the Beast
2 Y8W51 A Miner Miracle
2 z Why not Now?
2 BMI #6 Why God?
2 BMI #2 The Red Eye
2 Y10W29 Dreams that Won't Come True
2 2012 FAWM Don't Just Say It
2 Y10W22 Forgive and Forget
2 Y10W12 Touch and Go
2 Y10W10 Room
2 Y10W2 Wish
2 Y9W47 Children of a Lesser God Pray
2 Y9W26 Don't Take Me for Granite
2 Y9W20 I am Your Big Tree
2 Y1W36 We Had it All
2 Y8W12 Phoenix
2 Y7W19 Train of Thought
2 Y11W46 How Many Roads?
2 Y7W17 Million Dollar Baby
2 2012 FAWM Losing
2 Y10W9 Elephant
2 Y10W7 Charing Cross Road
2 Y10W5 How do You Feel (In My Arms)
2 Y9W24 Magic
2 Tomorrow's Song
2 Y9W6 Cu-cu-koo
2 Y9W5 Come Away with Me
2 Y8W10 Why Not?
2 Y8W13 Lottery
2 Y10W1 The Cowboy Code
2 FAWM #2 School
2 Y7W44 A Little Time
2 Show it if you know it
2 Jingle Stay Dry with CCI
2 Y8W4 Go West
2 Y8W21 Edgar (Evermore)
2 Jingle The Eye Place
2 Y9W38 Graduation Day
2 Y9W21 Birthday Cake
2 Y7W51 Where You Belong
2 Y12W31 The Sidekick
2 Y9W42 Bad DNA
2 Y12W16 1964
2 Y10W27 Pre-multimedia Church
2 Y7W8 Christmas in Our Hearts
2 Y12W33 Wake Up!
2 Y8W23 Children of the American Dream
2 Y12W32 After You
2 Y10W3 Psalm 100 (1551)
2 Y9W7 Carousel
2 2012 FAWM I'll Get You
2 co-author Who Knows?
2 SongU Trouble Maker
2 Y12W14 Dancing with Ghosts
2 Y12W13 The Crossing (The Ballad of Judas)
2 Y11W4 One Stop
2 Y8W52 Goodbye
2 FAWM # God-shaped Box
2 Sing them a Story I Miss You
2 Y11W26 When Love Slips Away
2 Y7W30 Rodeo Clown
2 BMI #3 Aren't You Glad You Married Me?
2 Y12W4 All the Wrong Things We did Right
2 Y10W50 Janitor Jimmy
2 Y7W33 An Inconvenient Truth
2 Y10W11 You are Love to Me
2 Y10W40 Number One
2 Y11W5 Not a Single Word
2 and 3 co-author It Will Be (2 versions)
3 Y8W29 Eight
3 Y11W44 Return to Sender
3 Y7W29 Headlines
3 Y12W30 Dog Years
3 Y7W38 Happy Together
3 Y12W17 Opposites Attract
3 Y8W48 Ain't No Joke When You're Broke
3 Y11W17 Crime & Punishment
3 Y11W15 iLover
3 Y10W52 Burn
3 Y11W48 Charley & Lily
3 Y11W49 Chopsticks Party
3 Y11W35 Hermes' Rock 'n Roll Road Show Plays the Styx
3 Y9W48 Two Doors
3 FAWM Jerry Had a Little Plan
3 Sing them a Story The Great Robbery
3 Y10W48 Don't I know You from Somewhere?
3 Y10W4 The Night of the Iguana
3 Y9W22 Where the Sun Don't Shine
3 Y12W35 Wedding Veil Betrayal
3 FAWM Pick-up Line
3 Y10W37 The Panda Eats Shoots and Leaves
3 Co-author Amy Peanut Plays the Blues
3 Y7W11 1985
3 Y10W8 Cellophane
3 Y9W1 Bollyood Blues
3 Y10W23 Mordecai
3 Y7W45 Faith Like a Child
3 Y9W17 Blackout
3 Y9W15 Detectives Fog and Drizzle
3 Y8W25 No-Brainer Blues
3 Y8W6 Batman vs. Heroes
3 Y7W40 Too Good to be True
3 Y7W39 Ugly as Sin
3 Y7W14 Hermes' Hunger
3 Y12W24 Multiples of 24
3 Y11W47 This, That, These, Those
3 Y11W30 5W's
3 Y11W28 The Articles
3 Y10W28 Captain Izzy
3 Y9W41 Love Is
3 FAWM #13 Logophiles in Love
3 Y11W9 The British Invasion
3 Y11W33 Late
3 Y7W34 TV Land
3 Y7W15 Hometown
3 Y7W10 All is Quiet on the Western Front
3 Y11W45 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
3 Y7W27 Terra
3 Y12W27 That's How the Song Goes
3 Y9W32 Black Birds
3 Y9W13 Good Luck, Bad Luck
3 Y8W15 Split
3 Y8W40 God Still Moves on the Water
3 Y11W37 Lady Libra and the Zodiac Gang
3 Y11W36 Sell Sally Shells
3 Y10W47 A Road Called Revenge
3 Y11W34 Balder at the Plate
3 Y7W32 Black Pearl
3 Y7W7 Samurai
3 Y12W28 Peter the Blues Lovin' Elephant
3 Y12W22 Jolly the Precarious Rickety Trolley
3 Y11W19 Maybe
3 Y8W31 Celebrity Kids
3 Y11W27 One Thousand and One
3 Y1W28 Bell Jar
3 Y12W7 Here Comes the Train
3 2012 FAWM Cu Chulainn
3/1 Y9W11 The Caged Bird Sings
3/1 Y10W51 Second Best
3/1 Co-author Daddy Please Don't Cry
3/2 Co-author Y1W20 See His Face
3/2 Y7W28 Hope to See You Again
3/2/1 Y7W37 The King & I
N/A Y8W17 "To Be" in Community
50s Y7W24 Les is More
60s Y9W29 Stone Cutter
African Y12W12 Thank you, Father
Alternative Y9W19 Born on a Blue Day
Alternative Y8W14 Bangkok
Alternative Y7W6 The Melody
Alternative 2012 FAWM Shut Up!
Alternative Y10W44 Los Angeles
Alternative Y7W26 Half-way
Alternative Y7W10 Stars
Alternative Y7W13 Undercover
Alternative Y8W28 Chlorine
Alternative Y8W6 The Kiss of 2006
Alternative Y9W51 Motor
Alternative Y9W43 Scarlet Letters
Alternative Y9W34 Cranberry Kites
Alternative Y10W46 Just Nuts
Alternative Y9W52 Pillow Fight
Alternative BMI #1 Friend to Buddha
Alternative Y9W39 Out of Date
Alternative Y9W34 Fifteen
Alternative Y9W28 Breathe in, Breathe out
Alternative Y11W16 Dave the Dihydrogen Monoxide Transparency Enhancement Facilitator
Alternative Y7W18 Michael
Alternative Y10W45 Vesper Sparrow
Alternative Y10W32 The Fly
Alternative Y9W18 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Alternative Y8W46 Dream a Little Dream
Alternative 2012 FAWM Love Fever
Alternative Y8W3 Tequila Sunrise
Alternative Y7W4 Beautiful Mind
Alternative 2012 FAWM Kayaks and Cruise Ships
Alternative Y11W41 Carbon Man
Alternative Y10W31 Mr. Apostrophe
Alternative 2012 FAWM Hippo Mouse & Spider
Alternative Y9W8 Summer
Alternative Y10W49 The Night Guard
Alternative Y8W41 Snowman
Alternative Y10W35 Windows Open
Alternative Y10W36 My Kazoo
Alternative 2012 FAWM coauthor Scars, Cars and Mars
Alternative Y8W44 4orty
Alternative Y12W3 & Y1W20 Gypsy Woman
Alternative Y7W9 Ms. Keeto
Alternative Y11W50 First Love
Alternative Y11W21 Farms
Alternative Y10W26 Counting Raindrops
Alternative Y8W50 coauthor 10,000 Words for Blue
Alternative Y12W6 & Y1W21 Before There's an After
Alternative Y9W2 Love & War
Alternative Y8W22 A Clockwork Orange
Alternative Y11W42 The 7 1/2 Floor of the Mertin Flemmer Building
Alternative Y12W34 Cabbages & Condoms
Alternative Co-author Just Give a Little Love
Alternative FAWM co-author Twitter
Alternative Y12W23 A Normal Day
Alternative Y7W16 Daddies and Daughters
Alternative Y7W12 Hero
Alternative Y12W36 & Y1W37 Mr. Right
Alternative Y12W21 Just Like You
Alternative Y9W36 Mint Oreo Milkshake
Alternative Y9W23 Favor
Alternative FAWM #3 You're a Someone
Alternative FAWM #2 Words
Alternative FAWM INFP
Alternative Tomorrow's Song
Alternative FAWM #5 BFF
Alternative Y12W19 Start Again
Alternative Y10W43 Second Hand
Alternative Y10W14 Smile
Alternative Y11W40 Angelina
Alternative Coauthor Hard to Change (the One you Love)
Alternative Y9W14 Saint 451
Alternative FAWM #9 Gossamer
Alternative Y9W31 Constantine
Alternative Y9W9 Mark of the Beast
Alternative Y8W51 A Miner Miracle
Alternative BMI #2 The Red Eye
Alternative Y10W29 Dreams that Won't Come True
Alternative 2012 FAWM Don't Just Say It
Alternative Y10W12 Touch and Go
Alternative Y10W10 Room
Alternative Y10W2 Wish
Alternative Y9W47 Children of a Lesser God Pray
Alternative Y9W26 Don't Take Me for Granite
Alternative Y9W20 I am Your Big Tree
Alternative Y7W19 Train of Thought
Alternative Y10W9 Elephant
Alternative Y10W7 Charing Cross Road
Alternative Y9W24 Magic
Alternative Tomorrow's Song
Alternative Y9W5 Come Away with Me
Alternative Y8W10 Why Not?
Alternative Y8W13 Lottery
Alternative Y7W44 A Little Time
Alternative Y8W4 Go West
Alternative Y8W21 Edgar (Evermore)
Alternative Y9W38 Graduation Day
Alternative Y9W21 Birthday Cake
Alternative Y7W51 Where You Belong
Alternative Y12W31 The Sidekick
Alternative Y10W27 Pre-multimedia Church
Alternative Y12W33 Wake Up!
Alternative Y9W7 Carousel
Alternative 2012 FAWM I'll Get You
Alternative SongU Trouble Maker
Alternative Y12W14 Dancing with Ghosts
Alternative Y12W13 The Crossing (The Ballad of Judas)
Alternative Sing them a Story I Miss You
Alternative Y7W30 Rodeo Clown
Alternative BMI #3 Aren't You Glad You Married Me?
Alternative Y12W4 All the Wrong Things We did Right
Alternative Y10W50 Janitor Jimmy
Alternative Y10W40 Number One
Alternative Y11W5 Not a Single Word
Alternative Y11W44 Return to Sender
Alternative Y7W29 Headlines
Alternative Y7W38 Happy Together
Alternative Y12W17 Opposites Attract
Alternative Y11W17 Crime & Punishment
Alternative Y11W15 iLover
Alternative Y10W52 Burn
Alternative Y9W48 Two Doors
Alternative FAWM Jerry Had a Little Plan
Alternative Sing them a Story The Great Robbery
Alternative Y10W48 Don't I know You from Somewhere?
Alternative Y10W4 The Night of the Iguana
Alternative Y12W35 Wedding Veil Betrayal
Alternative FAWM Pick-up Line
Alternative Y10W37 The Panda Eats Shoots and Leaves
Alternative Y7W11 1985
Alternative Y10W8 Cellophane
Alternative Y10W23 Mordecai
Alternative Y9W17 Blackout
Alternative Y8W6 Batman vs. Heroes
Alternative Y7W40 Too Good to be True
Alternative Y7W39 Ugly as Sin
Alternative Y11W30 5W's
Alternative Y9W41 Love Is
Alternative FAWM #13 Logophiles in Love
Alternative Y11W33 Late
Alternative Y7W34 TV Land
Alternative Y7W15 Hometown
Alternative Y7W10 All is Quiet on the Western Front
Alternative Y7W27 Terra
Alternative Y12W27 That's How the Song Goes
Alternative Y9W32 Black Birds
Alternative Y8W15 Split
Alternative Y7W32 Black Pearl
Alternative Y7W7 Samurai
Alternative Y11W19 Maybe
Alternative Y8W31 Celebrity Kids
Alternative Y1W28 Bell Jar
Alternative Y12W7 Here Comes the Train
Alternative Y9W11 The Caged Bird Sings
Alternative Y10W51 Second Best
Alternative Y7W37 The King & I
Americana Y8W23 Children of the American Dream
Ballad Y8W11 Rain
Ballad Y1W19 Kiss Me
Ballad Y11W39 Incredibly Short People
Ballad Coauthor Let's Remember Tomorrow
ballad Y11W11 Mama, Mama, Mama
Ballad Y8W2 The Lovely Bones
Ballad Y11W29 For My Children
Ballad Ps23
Ballad FAWM #10 A Ballad from Your Ex
Ballad Y7W50 co-author Nathalia
Ballad Y8W20 Stand by You
Ballad Y8W8 Smiles
Ballad Y7W52 I Tripped Across Your Father's Spirit Today
Ballad Y10W39 Aunt Kathy
Ballad Y9W30 They Say
Ballad Y8W27 co-author Where the Wild Things Are
Ballad BMI #6 Why God?
Ballad 2012 FAWM Losing
Ballad Y10W5 How do You Feel (In My Arms)
Ballad Y11W26 When Love Slips Away
Ballad Y10W11 You are Love to Me
Ballad Co-author Y1W20 See His Face
Ballad Y7W28 Hope to See You Again
Blues Y11W6 Whatever Happened to the You I Knew?
Blues Y11W31 The Prisoner of Progress
Blues Y11W25 Nobody's Fool
Blues Y11W38 Knock on Wood
Blues Y11W43 Locked Out of Heaven
Blues FAWM #4 Porch Light
Blues Y10W22 Forgive and Forget
Blues Y1W36 We Had it All
Blues FAWM #2 School
Blues Y12W32 After You
Blues Y8W48 Ain't No Joke When You're Broke
Blues Co-author Amy Peanut Plays the Blues
Blues Y8W25 No-Brainer Blues
Blues Y8W40 God Still Moves on the Water
Blues Y11W36 Sell Sally Shells
Blues Y12W28 Peter the Blues Lovin' Elephant
Classical Y11W8 Prepare for Winter
Country Y11W3 Water Turns to Wine
Country Y10W25 Drive
Country Y11W10 I've Got Nowhere to Go (and No Money to Get There)
Country Bridge to Eden
Country Y8W18 Because of Winn-Dixie
Country Y9W12 Home
Country Y9W16 Breakin' In
Country Y11W52 Thinamajigs & Whatchamacallits (Nouns)
Country 2012 FAWM I was Walking on the Moon
Country Y9W46 "To be" a Student
Country Y10W6 Christmas Surprise
Country Y10W42 Cold Water
Country Y9W10 I've Changed
Country Y10W30 I was Sober Enough to Remember Your Number (And Drunk Enough to Call)
Country Y8W49 The Executioner's Lullaby
Country Y11W51 The Corner of No and Where
Country Y11W14 Going Home
Country Y12W1 Going To Strathmore for Christmas
Country Y12W18 Deadlines
Country Y10W41 Songwriters' Block
Country Y11W13 Empty Dance Floor
Country Y9W6 Cu-cu-koo
Country Y10W1 The Cowboy Code
Country co-author Who Knows?
Country Y11W4 One Stop
Country Y8W52 Goodbye
Country FAWM # God-shaped Box
Country co-author It Will Be (2 versions)
Country Y12W30 Dog Years
Country Y11W48 Charley & Lily
Country Y9W22 Where the Sun Don't Shine
Country Y7W45 Faith Like a Child
Country Y11W47 This, That, These, Those
Country Y9W13 Good Luck, Bad Luck
Country Y11W37 Lady Libra and the Zodiac Gang
Country Y10W47 A Road Called Revenge
Country Co-author Daddy Please Don't Cry
Country Y8W17 "To Be" in Community
Folk Y11W22 My Barong
Folk Y11W20 Polly the Pretty Prep O' Sition
Folk Y9W25 Mr. James Conrad
Folk Y11W46 How Many Roads?
Folk Y8W29 Eight
Folk Y11W34 Balder at the Plate
Folk 2012 FAWM Cu Chulainn
Gospel 2012 FAWM Mighty Close
Gospel Show it if you know it
Gospel Y11W45 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Indian Y9W1 Bollyood Blues
Jazz Y11W24 Nickles and Dimes
Jazz Y22W23 The Special
Jazz Y7W33 An Inconvenient Truth
Jazz Y12W22 Jolly the Precarious Rickety Trolley
Jingle Jingle Stay Dry with CCI
Jingle Jingle The Eye Place
Middle Eastern Y11W27 One Thousand and One
Minstral Y12W29 My Dulcimer
Minstral Y7W14 Hermes' Hunger
Motown Y9W15 Detectives Fog and Drizzle
Praise Y11W7 We Bring an Offering
Praise Y11W40 Prayer for Today
Praise z Why not Now?
Praise Y10W3 Psalm 100 (1551)
Rap Y8W1 I was Made in the USA
Rap Y12W15 Oh, Those High School Days
Rap Y7W17 Million Dollar Baby
Reggae Y8W7 A Kwanzaa Carol
Reggae Y11W32 Monday Sundae
Reggae Y11W1 It's Sunday Somewhere
Rock Y8W19 Tomorrow Never Dies
Rock Y9W37 Road Rage
Rock Y7W5 Rock 'n Rolls
Rock co-author King of the Road
Rock Y10W24 Nowhere Fast
Rock Y8W30 Sun-Kissed
Rock Y10W20 Rockin' Hair
Rock Y7W43 My Tattoos
Rock Y7W41 I Hate You!
Rock Y7W20 Belong
Rock Y8W16 Victory
Rock Y7W25 co-author We Got Pictures, We Got Proof
Rock Y8W12 Phoenix
Rock Y9W42 Bad DNA
Rock Y12W16 1964
Rock Y7W8 Christmas in Our Hearts
Rock Y11W35 Hermes' Rock 'n Roll Road Show Plays the Styx
Rock Y11W28 The Articles
Rock Y11W9 The British Invasion
Spanish Y11W18 When I was a Verb
Synth Y11W2 Pocky Stick Day
Synth Y8W47 Run with Scissors
Synth Y8W45 Midnight Snacks
Synth Y9W33 Speed Graphic Baby
Synth Y8W42 SOS 4115
Synth Y8W9 Happy New Year!
Synth Y9W27 Songkran
Synth Y11W49 Chopsticks Party
Synth Y12W24 Multiples of 24
Synth Y10W28 Captain Izzy
Waltz Y11W12 The English Lesson
Waltz Y7W36 Wedding Dance
admiration Y8W29 Eight An 8 cow wife
admiration Y8W42 SOS 4115 Song of Solomon 4:1-15
adventure Y12W34 Cabbages & Condoms New Restaurant
anger/revenge Y7W41 I Hate You! The Hulk
anger/unaccepting Y8W19 Tomorrow Never Dies Personification of political injustice
angry/regret Y11W44 Return to Sender Relationship over
appeal for love Co-author Just Give a Little Love Pet Adoption
appreciation FAWM co-author Twitter Personification of Twitter as relationship
awe Y9W19 Born on a Blue Day Synesthesia -Daniel Tammet
awe Y12W23 A Normal Day awed by normal facts
awe/appreciation Y7W24 Les is More A tribute to Les Paul
awe/appreciation Y8W14 Bangkok Tourist enjoying Bangkok
awe/appreciation Y7W16 Daddies and Daughters Relationship encouragement
awe/appreciation Y7W12 Hero Captain Chesley B Sullenberger US Airways Flight 1549
awe/appreciation Y8W11 Rain Personification of rain
awe/frustration Y7W29 Headlines American swam to Aung San Suu Kyi's house while she was under house arrest
brokeness Y12W30 Dog Years Abused child in prostitution
cavalier Y9W37 Road Rage Tales of the Jackalope
celebration Y7W6 The Melody celebration of the harmony of life
celebration Y7W38 Happy Together A man loves his guitar
celebration Y8W7 A Kwanzaa Carol The spirits of Kwanzaa past, present, future
celebration Y7W5 Rock 'n Rolls Celebration of marriage
celebration Y8W9 Happy New Year! celebration
celebration Y7W36 Wedding Dance Celebration of marriage
contempt Y12W36 & Y1W37 Mr. Right Coming out of the closet after marriage
couriosity Y11W42 The 7 1/2 Floor of the Mertin Flemmer Building John Maalkovich
curiosity FAWM #10 A Ballad from Your Ex Relationship ended
curiousity Y12W17 Opposites Attract Relationship Why are they together?
defeated Y8W48 Ain't No Joke When You're Broke Relationship ends over lack of funds
defiant pride Y7W20 Belong underdog not giving up
desire to rekindled flame Y7W50 co-author Nathalia Relationship ended
desparate Y12W21 Just Like You Relationship request
desparate Y9W36 Mint Oreo Milkshake temptation of food
desparate Y9W23 Favor Mermaids want sailors
desparate Y1W19 Kiss Me Relationship request
desperate Y11W40 Prayer for Today Request
desperate hope 2012 FAWM Shut Up! Relationship request
desperation Y11W17 Crime & Punishment Relationship abusive
desperation Y11W15 iLover Human loves a robot
desperation Y10W52 Burn Passion and the End of the World
desperation Y11W3 Water Turns to Wine alcholic
desperation Y11W24 Nickles and Dimes Son misses father
desperation/hope Y10W44 Los Angeles Dangerous place
desperation/hope FAWM #3 You're a Someone Relationship request
desperation/hope FAWM #2 Words Relationship request
detached indifference Y11W39 Incredibly Short People Short people don't need a song
embarassed/resigned Y11W48 Charley & Lily Adam and Eve
encourage to persevere FAWM INFP Relationship differences
encourage to persevere Tomorrow's Song Marriage proposal
encourage to persevere FAWM #4 Porch Light Marriage Fildelity
encourage to persevere Y8W16 Victory Team encouragement
encouragement Y7W26 Half-way ice-cream encouragement talk
encouragement Y7W10 Stars Prayer of acceptance and appreciation for life
encouragement FAWM #5 BFF Marriage appreciation
encouragement Y8W20 Stand by You Relationship appreciation
encouragement Y8W8 Smiles Your smile is a gift
encouragement Y7W52 I Tripped Across Your Father's Spirit Today Family member told to be respectful of in-laws
encouragement co-author King of the Road Metaphor for giving one's life to God
encouragement Y7W25 co-author We Got Pictures, We Got Proof underdog preparing for battle
encouraging Y12W19 Start Again Don't give up on love
encouraging Y10W43 Second Hand Second chance at love
encouraging Y10W14 Smile dentist talk
encouraging Y10W39 Aunt Kathy cancer
encouraging Y10W41 Songwriters' Block A place to play songs
encouraging to persevere Y11W40 Angelina Relationship ending
encouraging to persevere Coauthor Hard to Change (the One you Love) Relationship differences
encouraging to persevere Coauthor Let's Remember Tomorrow Relationship differences
excitement Y9W48 Two Doors Relationship forbidden
excitement Y10W25 Drive Coming of age
excitement Y11W13 Empty Dance Floor person wants to dance
excitement Y11W22 My Barong Relationship to marriage
excitement Y11W35 Hermes' Rock 'n Roll Road Show Plays the Styx Rockers in the afterworld
excitement Y11W2 Pocky Stick Day Pocky Stick Day
excitement Y9W27 Songkran Thai new year
excitement Y11W49 Chopsticks Party Help others
excitement/resigned Y9W30 They Say Relationship forbidden
fear Y7W13 Undercover Based on the movie A Scanner Darkly
fear Y9W14 Saint 451 Fereignheit 451 prayers
fear/concern FAWM #9 Gossamer Older angel warning younger
fear/confusion Y9W31 Constantine Comic hero sees spirit world
fear/hope Y8W28 Chlorine Nemo
fear/hope Y8W6 The Kiss of 2006 Having cancer
fear/hope FAWM Jerry Had a Little Plan unstable worker
fear/hope Y8W27 co-author Where the Wild Things Are To the parents of a runaway child
fear/hope Y8W47 Run with Scissors An experimental subject escapes
fear/resigned Y9W9 Mark of the Beast End times
fear/resigned Y8W51 A Miner Miracle Personification of mountain and Mother Earth regarding Chilean miners trapped
fear/resigned Y8W45 Midnight Snacks Self vs Fate
forgiveness Sing them a Story The Great Robbery Woman forgives robber
freedom z Why not Now? Praise Surrender to God
frustrated/accepting Y9W29 Stone Cutter Fable retold
frustrated/accepting Y9W51 Motor Invention gone wrong
frustrated/accepting Y9W43 Scarlet Letters Adultry
frustrated/accepting Y9W34 Cranberry Kites tune to "Strawberry Swing" by Coldplay
frustrated/accepting BMI #2 The Red Eye Affect of love
frustrated/accepting BMI #6 Why God? Question of pain
frustrated/accepting Y9W33 Speed Graphic Baby Pornography POV from the camera
frustrated/resigned Y10W46 Just Nuts Relationship differences
frustrated/resigned Y10W29 Dreams that Won't Come True Relationship over
frustrated/resigned 2012 FAWM Don't Just Say It Relationship ending
frustrated/resigned Y10W48 Don't I know You from Somewhere? Relationship ending
frustrated/resigned Y9W11 The Caged Bird Sings Freedom
frustrated/resigned Y11W10 I've Got Nowhere to Go (and No Money to Get There) giving up on dream
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W52 Pillow Fight wanting to sleep in
frustrated/unaccepting BMI #1 Friend to Buddha The neighbor's husband dies
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W39 Out of Date The Beast OV from Beauty and the Beast
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W34 Fifteen tune to "Yellow" by Coldplay
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W28 Breathe in, Breathe out Skier paralyzed on life support
frustrated/unaccepting Y10W12 Touch and Go Relationship differences
frustrated/unaccepting Y10W10 Room Hobby overshadows relationships
frustrated/unaccepting Y10W2 Wish loved one's death remembered
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W47 Children of a Lesser God Pray Fishing from the worm's POV
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W26 Don't Take Me for Granite Properties of graodiorite
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W20 I am Your Big Tree a tree's POV
frustrated/unaccepting Y10W4 The Night of the Iguana based on the book
frustrated/unaccepting Y10W22 Forgive and Forget Relationship differences
frustrated/unaccepting Y9W22 Where the Sun Don't Shine Prostitute killed
frustration Y11W16 Dave the Dihydrogen Monoxide Transparency Enhancement Facilitator Lazy but experienced pool man
frustration Y12W35 Wedding Veil Betrayal Jacob betrayed
frustration Y11W6 Whatever Happened to the You I Knew? Relationship ending
frustration Y1W36 We Had it All Relationship over
frustration Y10W24 Nowhere Fast traffic
frustration Y8W12 Phoenix Relationship differences
frustration/appreciation co-author It Will Be (2 versions) Relationship over time
frustration/hope Bridge to Eden looking for peace
frustration/hope Y8W18 Because of Winn-Dixie Relationship differences
frustration/relief Y10W51 Second Best Marriage adjustment
frustration/resigned Y7W19 Train of Thought Relationship ended
frustration/unaccepting Y7W18 Michael Relationship ended aka the selling of Beatle songs to Michael Jackson
frustration/unaccepting FAWM Pick-up Line Relationship differences
frustration/unaccepting Y11W46 How Many Roads? A driver's rant
frustration/unaccepting Y7W17 Million Dollar Baby Boxer's mind talks to her body
fun invitation Y11W32 Monday Sundae want to take a break
funny Y10W37 The Panda Eats Shoots and Leaves joke
giving up Y10W45 Vesper Sparrow Feeling futile prayer
gratefulness Y12W29 My Dulcimer Love found and kept
happy Co-author Amy Peanut Plays the Blues An elephant plays the piano
happy/resigned Y7W11 1985 After 1984 temperments altered
hope Y10W32 The Fly escape
hope Y9W18 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Relationship request
hope Y8W46 Dream a Little Dream Relationship request
hope Y10W9 Elephant Is there God?
hope Y10W7 Charing Cross Road Relationship request
hope Y9W24 Magic Relationship request
hope Tomorrow's Song Relationship marriage proposal
hope Y9W5 Come Away with Me Get away from city life and work
hope Y10W8 Cellophane human nature
hope 2012 FAWM Losing Relationship starting
hope Y10W5 How do You Feel (In My Arms) Relationship request
hope Y9W6 Cu-cu-koo obessed fan relentless; Relationship request
hope 2012 FAWM Mighty Close temptation
hope/frustration Y8W10 Why Not? Relationship request
hope/frustration/resigned Y8W13 Lottery Relationship request
hope/frustration/resigned Y9W1 Bollyood Blues Relationship request
hope/resigned Y10W23 Mordecai accepting who we are
hope/unaccepting 2012 FAWM Love Fever Relationship request
hopeful Y11W31 The Prisoner of Progress journey to Heaven
humble/encouraging Y7W45 Faith Like a Child Dad reminded to read and pray by his kids
humor Y8W3 Tequila Sunrise A mother wants her son married at any cost
humor Y7W4 Beautiful Mind Personification of one's mind
humor Y9W17 Blackout Blind people save a city in a blackout
humor Y8W6 Batman vs. Heroes Which is the better TV show?
humor Y7W40 Too Good to be True Plastic surgery makes a woman unrecognizable to God
humor Y7W39 Ugly as Sin Sentences in Hell based on beauty
humor FAWM #2 School Principal doesn't want to go to school
humor Y8W25 No-Brainer Blues Relationship differences
humor Y10W1 The Cowboy Code cowboy life
humor Y9W25 Mr. James Conrad aka Mr. Bo Jangles
humor Y7W14 Hermes' Hunger JP Richardson, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly meet Hermes
humor Y9W15 Detectives Fog and Drizzle Police Detectives
humor frustrated Y9W12 Home Married with kids
humor frustrated/resigned Y9W16 Breakin' In Prison is better than the Depression
indifference 2012 FAWM Kayaks and Cruise Ships the sea personified
indifferent/resigned Y7W44 A Little Time Time personified talks to a man from cradle to grave
Informational Y8W17 "To Be" in Community Grammar
informative Y11W41 Carbon Man Periodic elements
informative Y10W31 Mr. Apostrophe Grammar
informative 2012 FAWM Hippo Mouse & Spider Grammar
informative Y11W30 5W's Grammar
informative Y11W52 Thinamajigs & Whatchamacallits (Nouns) Grammar
informative 2012 FAWM I was Walking on the Moon Grammar
Informative Y9W46 "To be" a Student Grammar
informative Y11W47 This, That, These, Those Grammar Declarative Adjectives
informative Y11W20 Polly the Pretty Prep O' Sition Grammar
informative Show it if you know it Abraham and Isaac
Informative Jingle Stay Dry with CCI Roofing Company
informative Y11W28 The Articles Grammar
informative Y12W24 Multiples of 24 math
informative Y10W28 Captain Izzy Grammar
informative -sad/resigned Y11W18 When I was a Verb Grammar
Informative/humor Y9W41 Love Is Description of love based on a Rubik's Cube
intimidation/pride Y8W4 Go West The Trail of Tears
intimidation/pride Y8W1 I was Made in the USA Personification of a bullet
irony Y10W6 Christmas Surprise Relationship thankfulness
jealousy Y8W21 Edgar (Evermore) Relationship ended by death but continued
jingle Jingle The Eye Place jingle
joke Y10W42 Cold Water A dog licks plates clean
joy Y9W38 Graduation Day celebration
joy Y9W21 Birthday Cake Birthday party
joy FAWM #13 Logophiles in Love Relationship appreciation
joy/frustration/resigned Y9W8 Summer Summer personified
laidback Y11W1 It's Sunday Somewhere want to take a break
loneliness Y7W51 Where You Belong Relationship separation
loneliness/desperation Y10W49 The Night Guard lonely man
lonely Y8W41 Snowman Personification of a snowman
lonely/content Y10W35 Windows Open Internet
loyalty Y12W31 The Sidekick Friendship support
manipulation Y9W42 Bad DNA Darth Vader's Father/son talk
nastalgia Y8W30 Sun-Kissed Remembering summer youth
nervous excitement Y11W9 The British Invasion 1964 Rock 'n Roll
nervous uncertainty Y11W33 Late Unplanned pregnancy
nonchalant Y10W36 My Kazoo Relationship physical
nostalgia 2012 FAWM coauthor Scars, Cars and Mars love of music
nostalgia Y10W27 Pre-multimedia Church church changes
nostalgia Y7W34 TV Land TV personified
nostalgia Y7W15 Hometown Returning to a childhood town that's changed
nostalgia Y7W10 All is Quiet on the Western Front Based on the book
nostalgia Y12W15 Oh, Those High School Days Nostalgia
nostalgia Y10W20 Rockin' Hair Remembering youth
nostalgia Y12W16 1964 Nostalgia
nostalgia Y7W8 Christmas in Our Hearts Christmas
optimistic Y11W45 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Noah
panic Y12W33 Wake Up! Missing out
passion Y7W27 Terra The Planets personified- the end of Earth
pathetically surviving Y12W27 That's How the Song Goes An old stripper
patriotic/hope Y8W23 Children of the American Dream Personification of Lady Liberty
perseverence Y12W32 After You Relationship over
Praise Y10W3 Psalm 100 (1551) Praise
pride Y7W43 My Tattoos Proud of tattoos
resigned Y8W44 4orty turning 40
resigned Y9W7 Carousel Metaphor life is a carousel
resigned Y9W32 Black Birds Mortality
resigned Y8W15 Split King Solomon's decision
resigned Y11W25 Nobody's Fool Relationship denial
resigned Y9W10 I've Changed Relationship over
resigned Y9W13 Good Luck, Bad Luck Fable
respect Y8W40 God Still Moves on the Water Respect God who never changes
revenge Y12W3 & Y1W20 Gypsy Woman Poison food
revenge 2012 FAWM I'll Get You Relationship over
revenge Y11W36 Sell Sally Shells Sister's death
revenge Y10W30 I was Sober Enough to Remember Your Number (And Drunk Enough to Call) Relationship over
revenge Y8W49 The Executioner's Lullaby Adultry; betrayal, murder
revenge Y11W37 Lady Libra and the Zodiac Gang bank robbery gone wrong
revenge Y10W47 A Road Called Revenge Cowboy story
revenge Y22W23 The Special Relationship abusive
revenge/mischief Y11W34 Balder at the Plate Loki's trick
sad Y7W32 Black Pearl Valdez oil spill from a sea creature's POV
sad/appreciation/resigned SongU Trouble Maker Confession to God
sad/appreciation/resigned co-author Who Knows? Relationship differences
sad/disheartened Y7W9 Ms. Keeto Personification of a mosquito
sad/disheartened Y7W7 Samurai Samurai's son is a thief
sad/encouraging Co-author Y1W20 See His Face The crucifixtion
sad/encouraging Co-author Daddy Please Don't Cry Child dies
sad/regret Y12W14 Dancing with Ghosts Relationship over
sad/regret Y12W28 Peter the Blues Lovin' Elephant An elephant plays the piano
sad/resigned Y11W50 First Love Relationship over
sad/resigned Y11W21 Farms Son misses father
sad/resigned Y12W13 The Crossing (The Ballad of Judas) Betrayal
sad/resigned Y11W19 Maybe Sex for love
sad/resigned Y8W31 Celebrity Kids Celebrity kids with messed up lives
sad/resigned Y7W37 The King & I King David's affair and murder
sad/resigned Y11W11 Mama, Mama, Mama get rich quick
sad/resigned Y7W28 Hope to See You Again N. Korean husband and German wife kept apart 47 years
sad/resigned Y11W38 Knock on Wood witche's curse
sad/resigned Y11W51 The Corner of No and Where homelessness
sad/resigned Y11W4 One Stop killing of a gambler
sad/resigned Y8W52 Goodbye a goodbye
sad/resigned FAWM # God-shaped Box Keeping God in a box
sad/resigned Y12W22 Jolly the Precarious Rickety Trolley Story about retired trolley
sad/resigned nervous/hopeful Y11W14 Going Home Prodigal Son
sad/unaccepting Y10W26 Counting Raindrops Relationship over
sad/unaccepting Y8W50 coauthor 10,000 Words for Blue Relationship ended
sad/unaccepting Sing them a Story I Miss You Father dies
sad/unaccepting Y7W30 Rodeo Clown Divorce from a child's POV
sad/unaccepting Y8W2 The Lovely Bones based on the book a father grieves for raped and murdered daughter
sad/unaccepting Y11W26 When Love Slips Away Relationship over
sad/unaccepting Y11W43 Locked Out of Heaven Relationship over
sad/unaccepting Y11W8 Prepare for Winter Relationship over
sarcasm BMI #3 Aren't You Glad You Married Me? Relationship differences
sassy Y12W6 & Y1W21 Before There's an After Entering adulthood
sassy Y12W4 All the Wrong Things We did Right Relationship enduring
sassy Y10W50 Janitor Jimmy do the job
seduction Y11W27 One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
stoic Y9W2 Love & War Relationship refused
suicidal Y1W28 Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
suicidal Y12W7 Here Comes the Train Anna Kareniana
suspense Y7W33 An Inconvenient Truth Movie D.O.A. an accountant is poisoned
thankful Y10W40 Number One Relationship thankfulness
thankful Y10W11 You are Love to Me Relationship thankfulness
thankful Y12W1 Going To Strathmore for Christmas Visiting family
thankful/nostalgia 2012 FAWM Cu Chulainn Norse tale
thankfulness Y12W12 Thank you, Father Nelson Mendala
Thankfulness Y11W5 Not a Single Word Relationship lifespan
thankfulness Y11W29 For My Children thankfulness
Thankfulness Ps23 Psalm 23
Thankfulness Y11W7 We Bring an Offering Praise
threatened Y8W22 A Clockwork Orange Personification of Dali's painting
tongue and cheek Y11W12 The English Lesson Grammar
untroubled Y12W18 Deadlines Procrastination is fine
Hey eveyone, you may or may not have noticed I've been missing for a while...circumstances conspired against me. However, you can' t keep a good man down.. hopefully I can squeeze into that category. Ain't going to type the new song lyrics - 42 - out tonight. Not on my phone. Got to pay a visit to the local library in the AM, maybe a couple of revisions...feels good to be writing again, though! All the best
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Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
