Song fodder - 2008/05/04 11:47A blog entry by Baby's First Ride got me thinking... What did you write your songs about this year?
To start the ball rolling: 1. Lucked-out 80s beauty queen becomes whore 2. Shagging like cats 3. Catching two-timing boyfriend with another girl over the luxury of a coffee shop latte 4. Making your own luck rather than waiting for things to happen 5. Realising that first love was actually a bit of a letdown, actually 6. Embracing denial 7. Destroying ex-boyfriend's flat but stealing his chewing gum because he always tasted kind of nice 8. Depression caused by annoying psychologist ex 9. Asking for forgiveness after rude extra-marital unpleasantness 10. Trying to finish the RPM challenge with an obvious filler 11. Unfortunate collision with fortune teller leads to life of looking over your shoulder
4 of which are autobiographical - ooh, intrigue!
You?
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 12:10If I remember rightly number 10 was an autobiographical one
Mine are something like:
1. Celebrating the Dance in 4/4 time 2. Life on a (tiny) mountain with no neighbours within shouting distance (except on very still evenings)* 3. Having a 12 year old daughter I was looking ahead a little. Of course I set it in the past to make this easier. 4. This is about overcoming insurmountable rhymes. 5. a) Death b)Therapy c)Redemption d)Responsibility but not neccessarily in that order. 6. Death, immortality and wind chimes. 7. Depression and time distortion. 8. Rain 9. Loss and .. erm .. no just loss 10. Head pain and the medical industry 11. The mellowing effects of time and weather 12. The Afterlife.
* alright it's a hill, OK!
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 12:14Gumbo wrote: Mine are something like...
You see, these are pretty dark themes, but your cd doesn't play that way, not overall anyway. Interesting stuff! Will have another listen with this in mind.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 13:12I guess number 5 kind of skews the balance a bit. - really there a four darker songs in the middle. And then a blues erm and then the one about loss/broken love erm and then the head pain and then the ... ok you're right it's pretty dark. I'm glad it's not obvious when you're listening
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 14:15Gumbo wrote: I guess number 5 kind of skews the balance a bit. - really there a four darker songs in the middle. And then a blues erm and then the one about loss/broken love erm and then the head pain and then the ... ok you're right it's pretty dark. I'm glad it's not obvious when you're listening
It's ooh feel-good-bleak. I wonder what Joshua "genre" Wentz would think of that.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 17:47Oh, this is going to be tough.. Science fiction isn't always easy to explain. And this isn't exactly in chronological order relative to the events taking place.
1) A man takes refuge in a dark place and isn't completely aware of how he ended up there. 'Spirits' who are familiar with the man try and protect him from somebody they perceive to be a threat. He is 'rescued' from this darkness by a strange entity who promises the man great things.
2) The strange entity naturally backstabs the man, trying to upload his entire consciousness to the man, after his own brain has become too full. We learn the entity somehow became separated from space/time and it seriously messed him up.
3) Different scene - another spends his/her lifetime trying to communicate with somebody who left for space.
4) Instrumental piece written about evil people and how even they have their toys they like to play with. The toys are certainly unfortunate.
5-7) The entity has a 'music box' he created which serves as a prison for somebody who may have been dear to the entity at some point.
8) A time-displaced sailor has a custom-built shower which lets him re-experience his past. He's stuck in the distant future after a mishap involving wormholes, miniature blackholes, or possibly some variant of the Bermuda Triangle.
9-11) The strange entity is placed in a 'safe place' by whoever regulates the multiple universes, since being disjointed from time/space, he tends to corrupt all the time and space he comes in contact with.
12) Gothic boy works a morning job, and his numerous waking up instruments annoy him one by one.
13) Death By Karaoke - MWAHAHA. The name says it all. (Sorry, I was really bored when I wrote this.)
14) Quick tale about somebody who works hard for everything encountering a man who has it all and didn't work for any of it. It creates a real 'grimey' situation.
15-16) Two sides of the same coin.
The first is about somebody who involuntarily thrown a significant distance by an idiot motorist who drove away from the scene of the crime. (It actually happened right outside my apartment during the RPM Challenge. The lady didn't make it.)
The second is more general, about somebody who keeps taking off for the stars - as 'another' tries to reason with him before his aspirations injure him.
17) Continuing from #3, 'another' finally receives communication from the somebody, and the end result isn't what (s)he expected. Sometimes people can change.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 19:16Lunarsight wrote: 4) Instrumental piece written about evil people and how even they have their toys they like to play with. The toys are certainly unfortunate.
Tell me about your mother.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 19:32I'm following this thread. Interesting stuff here. Especially Lunarsight's observations. WOW!
Anyway, my humdrum fodder:
1. Dotcom singlemindedness and suicide 2. Aging 3. Adultery 4. Escaping from cults 5. Aging 6. Drugs 7. Aging 8. Sex and Paolo Coehlo 9. Imaging my mom talking with an Albanian
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You and Me and the Goddamn City? Woah, I'll have another listen!
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 20:28Tell me about your mother.
(ROFL) Outside of #15 and maybe #12, none of it is based on real events or auto-biographical.
#8 was actually based on a dream I had. My brain conjured up this really cool 'steam punk'-looking shower that could simulate different environments. The main valve for the shower was a metal-looking dial that clicked as you turned it.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 20:54My list would be like this:
1. loosely based round images I associate with Amsterdam on Queensday (sort of a national holiday on 30th of april when the whole city is a increasingly more drunken mess) 2. about trying to learn to care less about things; just get things done. 3. about being fed up with my job while at the same time taking the piss out of kids who think they'll be in paradise once they become a famous rapper, sort of. 4. trying to write the worlds most miserable song 5. about the so-called "lost generation"; how time and circumstance can put you in a position with significant less chance of ever reaching your goals than other people. 6.stream-of conciousness nonsense with a mock-moral at the end. 7.Part parody on an "americana"-lyric and part me imagining myself having a "regular" life. 8.I only want to procrastinate; I do actually. When you procrastinate you always have something to look forward to. 9.This was supposed to be a lyric about an American tourist "doing" Europe; it's an instrumental now (the title is a line from a Tuxedomoonsong) 10.Trying to write cheesy Italodiscolyrics (with some quasi-serious pretext of comparing life with a "nightflight to the sun") 11.This was supposed to be about the Natalee Holloway-case; it's an instrumental now.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 22:021. The effects of depression on someone who doesn't realise they are depressed (kind of about a work colleague) 2. A tale of theft with allusions to the theft of the soul of music by those who have 50 gazillion illegal downloads but have never listened to 99% of it. 3. A sociopath murdering his ex-girlfriend in order to make himself famous (kind of inspired by the Son of Sam) 4. A straightforward critique of the Northern Rock scandal in the UK (for non-UKers this is where the government of the UK bailed out a private bank when it got into trouble effectively nationalising it with our tax money) 5. Ripped straight from an episode of some crime drama I saw on TV - can't remember which, something like Law & Order or similar 6. An ancient lyric I wrote when I was 17 or so but never set to music. Kind of a teenage angst type of thing though I've forgotten what I was so upset about 7. What happens when you go to bed having not resolved an argument 8. Complete nonsense lyric. I often write nonsense lyrics to get a tune and then replace them with real ones later. I decided to keep the originals in this case for some reason (like you can't guess it was something to do with getting near the end of February...) 9. Chavs, white trash, hoodies, whatever you want to call them. They're the scum that steal your car for a bit of fun 10. A song about the RPM Challenge itself, and how draining it was physically and emotionally
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/04 23:55I've found it really interested reading this thread and seeing quite how precise and definite other artists are about the content of their lyrics.
My songs tend to be about a mish-mash of random themes that, in my strange mind, seem to have some kind of connection. With the odd exception they're autobiographical, but usually it's very much stream-of-consciousness. I often don't know what a song is about until after I've finished it.
Okay, let's have a go at this.
1. Frustration, passive/aggressive fear of rejection, and drinking too much.
2. Am I actually growing as a person, or just lazily letting my life fall apart?
3. No idea. Sorry.
4. Kind of about failure and disappointment in myself. It's actually not about Nick Drake at all.
5. Partly about the hypocrisy inherent in religious fundamentalism, partly about a dream I had when I was 8, partly about a load of other random stuff.
6. Love.
7. Mainly about people who do lots of drugs and look like they're heading for trouble (I had a couple of people in mind); I think verse 2 is about RPM itself, but I can't be sure...
8. Just your typical booze-sodden night out in Liverpool.
9. Insecurity, a perceived lack of achievement, love... Aaargh! I don't know! Ask Tess - she's doing a cover of it and probably has a much clearer idea of what it's really about than I do.
10. This is about a whole load of things. Deceit, loneliness, loss, all sorts of really miserable stuff. I called it Sad Song just to let people know what they were letting themselves in for.
11. No idea whatsoever. I just chucked it together because I liked the rhythm.
So, there you go. I don't know what my own songs are about, but I do know that mostly they're miserable as fuck. Anybody else out there with this approach to songwriting? Or am I a lone freak?
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 03:141. and so- just had a cynical line in my head, rolled with it. its the only lyric in the song. 2. a thousand voices coming clear- overwhelming feeling of something, and one person feeling they are in another's head. 3. the view from up here- no idea where it came from, but its about that kind of person that needs others to define them, others to make them who they are. 4. watch it go- the world is pretty awful. feels like it didnt used to be so awful. id like to see that world sometime. 5. don't worry ill bring sunglasses and bottled water- personal feelings on religion and a response to a deathly earthquake in a holy place in asia and a deathly tumor in the holy brain of my best friend's uncle. 6. freedom and drain cleaner- growing up and being free doesnt necessarily mean you don't hate your life. its about moving somewhere new, being on your own, and wanting the exact opposite. 7. filthy mirrors- such a long, long, song, but a story came to mind that has ties to depression, and ultimately, pushing your way out into a new, promising life. 8. the looking back- like it sounds. spurred by a cold breeze or a poignant song, the song was inspired by situations in which an extra-body event becomes an inner-body, and inner-mind event. 9. into the city lights- my brother was in a rough spot. i thought if i were him, all i would want to do is disappear for a while and walk around nameless in a city, hopefully under the rain. 10. lifetime of circles- situations with horribly complicated ex led to her going away to france. i thought of myself being on a journey of my own, but one entirely in my own head, while she was exploring the world.
holy shit im depressing. but, the music sounds happier, i think!!!
and im a happy enough dude! ill write some happier ones soon, perhaps.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 04:49I came up with an album title and then tried to write songs that fit. As everything is instrumental: I just came up with groovy sounding song titles that were evoked by the music.
I have a terrible time writing lyrics.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 04:56Actually, it's very therapeutic. I'm working on a new album too.
1. Possible transsexual heavy petting going on but then discourse in the meaning of gender instead 2. Making a new home, being prepared to face challenges in your life, doing what makes you happy. J.J. Ratter = Penny Rimbaud of Crass. 3. Israeli Palestinian conflict/violence everywhere analysis in 90 seconds point? Total hypocrisy and madness. 4. Some days you have to look under the semi to see if anything crawled under there and died while taking refuge from the death ray in the sky. Then you could roast it. Don't say I didn't warn you. 5. Transcendent human spiritual singularity approaches. WHAT to do what to do. Be a part of something. Watch out for robots. 6. I fell asleep in the tunnels behind the county municipal building and all I got was this lousy acidic acidic rash shaped like a t-shirt. 7. I consider myself a feminist, but damn some women know exactly how to turn you a pool. Watch out. 8. I love my friends. You should too, or at least your friends. You should love everybody. This analysis is now longer than the song's lyrics. 9. GARG! The troll emerges! How can he LIVE with himself! Why does he continue on?!?! 10. Conspiratorially examining the big picture part 1. I don't know exactly what a Westiclivity Accent is, but the idea was revealed to me at the very last moments of a dream, on a hillside, sung by Eve Libertine of Crass. 11. Hitting the RPM Wall. Many of you know the history of this song, as with who wrote the words. Possibly self-indulgent, possibly orchestra? Bust through the wall and find out. 12. I named this song The Power of Incompleteness because I was running out of time and knew I wouldn't perfect the sound, but then again it's a pretty good series of riffs and 13. Nanotechnology might just be the coolest and creepiest thing ever. Do you know what a memristor is and how it works? That's awesome! Do you know what an RFID chip is? That's scary! I'm a grad student in this field! That's even scarier! 14. It is not a secret anymore that governments use energy weapons high above the ground during unannounced tests. Passenger jet planes do not spray huge chemical trails behind them. Those belong to military planes that disperse amounts of magnetic material (Barium salts) into the air for radar tests. The time, place, and date in the title records an observation of an energy event. Are we in the thick of it and we don't even know it? Or are we in the clear? 15. Doesn't it make you feel safe to know that if somehow all the worlds agriculture fails at the same time YOU will never ever ever ever ever see any more seeds because they are hidden in the arctic? The burp at the end says it all.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 05:131. Depression after a breakup.
2. Girl leaves boy. Boy goes to get her back. Boy goes back home rejected.
3. A guy is in love with his best friend but she has no idea.
4. Death
5. Father reads a suicide note written by his daughter.
6. Boy leaves girl. Boy comes back to be with her again. Boy is rejected.
7. Your guess is as good as mine.
9. Boy tries to fix relationship with girl. Girl tries to leave. Boy kills girl and throws her into a river.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 05:161. sleep - i have a friend who never sleeps. sleeping is my favorite thing. it's also tongue in cheek about my wife who sleeps more than i do 2. u and us - this was a love song to my wife 3. loser - listening to NPR all day drives you crazy, makes you hate people 4. winter - i went running in the snow one day. the trees are filled with crows. millions of them. 5. insane - about me eventually 6. voices - ditto 7. songsong - about writing a song basically 8. come - a poem actually from college about a girl who said she never had an orgasm and my heroic attempt to correct that 9. now - about my wife literally, every single line is true 10. ready - made up from scratch. just about hitting on a girl i suppose 11. escape - my wife takes trips alot. 12. everything - a realization about marriage (mine)
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 08:331. Fantasies of murdering my horribly loud and obnoxious neighbors 2. Pulling all-nighters 3. Instrumental, but we'll say it's about ennui 4. I think the title sums it up pretty nicely: "The Shameless Objectification of Hot Men" 5. The irrelevance of men/romance in my life due to other major issues demanding my attention 6. Deciding to stop having a crush on a guy because it was only going to end up making me unhappy; also how amazing it was that I was able to do this as I was quite insatiably boy-crazy in my youth 7. A stalker, stalking 8. Another instrumental, but we'll say it's about the cyclical nature of life 9. Knowing your limits, building a fortress around yourself to keep out the bad things in life, being self-sufficient 10. This is technically a love song but really I wrote the lyrics just because I learned the terms for the nearest and farthest points in the orbits of bodies in space and wanted to use them in a song
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 12:36OK, I'll bite. It is pretty interesting to get the author's perspective on the lyrics. So, for the record, here are mine:
2. The Homecoming Long lost girl friend turns up unannounced at the local bar, after having made it to the big time in Hollywood. It's been ten years, and this is the ex-boyfriend's perspective.
3. Would That I Could A different kind of homecoming. Inner struggles of ex-husband who's been through rough times as he's passing by the house where they used to live and love.
4. Try Again A pretty cheerful tune about living life to the fullest while it last, since you don't get to try again.
5. You And I Two souls entwined; one lost at sea, the other left ashore, increasingly torn apart by the aching hope. Finally they join again.
6. Do What You Wanna Do The subject of the song is down on his knees, and he just asked the woman he loves to marry him. These are the thoughts racing through his mind during those longest seconds of his life, breathlessly wating for her answer.
7. Going Home My friend John Powers wrote these words. It is about a trucker on a long haul, just aching to be home again, holding his loved one in his arms.
8. Taste Love Again This one’s about heartache, and the curious human trait to be able to get past grief so bad ordinary animals perish from it.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 13:12ColinGarvey wrote: 9. Insecurity, a perceived lack of achievement, love... Aaargh! I don't know! Ask Tess - she's doing a cover of it and probably has a much clearer idea of what it's really about than I do.
Well, OBVIOUSLY, it's about deciding not to take a chance on something because you're too scared of the consequences, when in the back of your mind you know that you're just taking a shortcut to the most unhappy of conclusions, and it really wouldn't cost you anything to take a leap of faith. So...breaking up a relationship because you're scared of getting hurt, which is a just plain DUMB option, but who hasn't done that?
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 14:32For me, it was easy. I just picked 10 of my favorite boardgames and wrote a song about each. I am also "Dweeb" on http://www.boardgamegeek.com
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 16:03I blogged mine a while back. No sense in a redo.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 16:55Now that I have more time...
1. "Stoking the Furnace," I wanted to create a piece that evoked the mechanism of dreaming: musically, the switch from falling asleep to R.E.M. when the power chords start kicking in. We humans have left the waking world and entered one of our own [collective] imaginations.
2. "The Dream Furnace" was inspired by my musing on what the neurons do when we dream: workers in a factory firing off random then recognizable images and sounds. My freams often feature similar or repeating themes, so I wanted to express this musically.
3. "Management" was originally supposed to have been a melody to last year's "Empires of Oppression." But the sound collage style of the original did not leave room for any melody (not to get political, but what music would go with George Walker Bush's speech?) So, instead I reworked it into a shorter piece and used some odd sounding synths to emphasize how management never seem to quite sync up with work. In retrospect, it makes a good metaphor for how our waking selves (our managers) have a hard time dealing with the subconscious.
4. "Travellers & Thives" is my hymn to discos. You will always find some of both in a bar. Dance, you fools, dance!
5. "The Acrobat Tries to Impress" because I was writing a piece that kept metamorphosing into some acid jazz. I am still not sure if I, the acrobat, succeeded.
6. "The March of Fortune" was originally from last year's first attempt at "Painted Tense." It has gone through so many changes... the martial beat seem to complete the tone. I have yet to write an effective ending of this.
7. "Your Pillow, Empty" is based on ancient arabic melody done in an east Asian style. Its hard to sleep, much less dream if you are painfully alone.
8. "Glare" has been sitting on my hard drive for years: now it is finished, and I can see what I'm doing.
9. "Cup of Joe" was the first piece I actually finished in February. I started "Acrobat" shortly afterwards and felt I was straying into too smooth a groove for the album. Coffee would be the last vice I give up.
10. "Passengers Watch the Night Slip By," was suggested by the VST's I downloaded. It really just fell into place one afternoon. The middle section is a reprise of "Management"
11. "Dangerous Stars" is an interstellar collision of the news reports about the falling of a military satellite and Wang Chung's "To Live and Die in L.A." My favorite track.
12. "The Furnace Closes" represents a softer framing, like the opening track, in which the waking mind muses over the refrain from "The Dream Furnace" and slips quietly back into full consciousness haunted by the evening's activities. A reprise of the title track, at a much slower, groggier pace. See what I mean about coffee?
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 18:231. Kounter Kulture – Wanted a theme song for my SL DJ gig. Mostly an adolescent rant about not fitting in but wanting to have a really really good time.
2. Fast Train – A song for my fiancé. How hard it is to be away from her.
3. Chocolate Abba – What’s better than listening to ABBA? CHOCOALTE ABBA of course! Disclaimer: This song sounds nothing like the music of ABBA.
4. 137 – Based on Psalm 137. About being in a place where you feel invisible and rejected but you know inside you deserve better.
5. Ghosts in the Background – Saying its okay for shadow parts of consciousness to exist. Welcoming them back after stuffing them away.
6. Bones – We have 8 cats. All 8 cats are named in the song. They have lots of bones.
7. Folk Punk Baby – Meeting a really cool girl in a club. Love/lust at first site. Meeting someone who is an instant connection.
8. Ivory Tower of Primitives – Location in SL with a really cool name. Wrote the name down once as a place to visit. In February I found the name scribbled down and thought that would make a good song.
9. Too Late – Long term relationship dies dies and ends.
10. Lullaby From a Ghost – This is three one take improvised layers. I can never reproduce this song. It came out of nowhere. The idea came from EVP recordings that ghost hunters do and what kind of song I’d do if I came back as a ghost. The vocal is purposely difficult to decipher, but there’s stuff about sycamore trees, coffee and donuts with sprinkles in there. Just a few of the things I’m bound to miss in the afterlife. And yes, the distorted overblown notes on the recorder are intentional.
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1. Plane crash/ejection/chute failure 2. A crime of passion 3. White-out conditions 4. Being overwhelmed by doomsayers 5. Increasing altitude 6. Cumulonimbus clouds, and what lies within them 7. Piloting 8. Instrument Meteorological Conditions 9. Celebratory landing 10. Not being overwhelmed by doomsayers
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 21:34fenceflatley wrote: 3. Chocolate Abba – What’s better than listening to ABBA? CHOCOALTE ABBA of course! Disclaimer: This song sounds nothing like the music of ABBA.
That's because ABBA are great and everything, but they definitely do not RAWK.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 22:43For the most part, my inspiration is right there explicitly in the titles of my songs (and in the lengthy descriptions I wrote for them on my website), but in quick summary:
1. Civilization's grand failures, the futility of (some) of our actions 2. The formation of the Salton Sea in 1905 3. The underground mine fire that's been burning beneath Centralia, PA since 1962, and the notorious Cuyahoga River fire in Cleveland in 1969 4. Stupid phrases ("Free or best offer -- what does that even mean?") 5. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in 1986 6. The failed Ryugyong Hotel, which has dominated the skyline of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, unfinished and untouched, since 1992 7. The I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse in Minneapolis on August 1, 2007 8. The failure of the Salton Sea to become a resort paradise in the 1960s, and the ecological disasters that have been occurring there over the past decade or so 9. Wrapping it all up -- the title says it all: "Unnatural Disasters"
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 23:10sister_savage wrote: Well, OBVIOUSLY, it's about deciding not to take a chance on something because you're too scared of the consequences, when in the back of your mind you know that you're just taking a shortcut to the most unhappy of conclusions, and it really wouldn't cost you anything to take a leap of faith. So...breaking up a relationship because you're scared of getting hurt, which is a just plain DUMB option, but who hasn't done that?
My word... is that what it's about?
See, that's the great thing about writing totally vague and ambiguous lyrics. People supply their own stories to fill the vast gaps you've left.
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Re:Song fodder - 2008/05/05 23:32Ok we'll chime in... 1. first thing that came to mind (think I Love Lucy!) 2. mental illness 3. hope we don't offend anyone...George Bush 4. the title says it all 5. a beautiful sunset over the ocean 6. a maiden dance 7. sequel to...little fishies where are you? from RPM 07 8. the title says it all 9. the title says it all 10. hey, we live on the gulf coast...hurricanes (Yikes!)
K&W, aka another cultural landslide
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