"ididnt know lovely 2"

had to write a love song
does this sound like love?
yeah i'm talking to you
and there's always a “you”
in a love song

could it be that you carried me at a frequency
higher than the trees
so high i couldn’t see

how to right a love song
when i love wrong
and it’s all about you
but i think about me
in a love song

could it be you won’t carry me
at a frequency
riding with the leaves
so high i can’t see

could it be you that carried me
and there's always a you
but it all about me
so high i can’t see
and does that
does that sound like love?
(repeat)

Finally finished this challenge and wrote my first original song. I play music, I like to sing, and I'm a student of Poetry, but I've always felt intimidated by songwriting. It was difficult in the beginning to merge the sound with words. Lyrics are my favorite though, close to poetry but more spare and mysterious. They can be cliché and repetitive because the sound carries the phrase. They also don't have to make any sense, and yet together with the sound, the song can make perfect sense. Anyway, :"> I recorded a million times trying to get it right, but I had to stop that. It’s Sunday already and no time to mull over perfection. I'll definitely keep working on lyrics and songwriting. Music's too stimulating to ignore.

Next time with feeling,

The DDD

Love In A Mist

Love In A Mist

You are my dream
You are my world
The mist moves in
You faded away

When I needed you
You were not here
Who do I blame?
Doubt haunts me
Like a veil of mist

(Chorus)
The flower
Oh, how pretty blue
Your thorns ward me off
But I see past it
Love in a mist

After the mist clears
I see you standing
You tell me its okay
Why did I doubt you?
You are still my world


(Chorus)


Like a star in the sky
You are always there
No matter what


(Chorus)


Love in a mist
Love in a mist
Love in a mist
Love in a mist



I liked this challenge. I used to write poetry back in the day, so this reminded me of those days. The song is the story of a girl and boy in love, but one doubts the other's love. The girl's thoughts are in the verses and the boy's thoughts are in the chorus. Will I write another song? Probably not. Song writing is hard, and I commend people who do it. Songs have a certain structure. Maybe I'm just not used to the structure, but I will stick with writing fiction. The challenge was fun though; it definitely challenged me to write something that is different than what I'm used to.

International Lullaby

(Verse 1)
любить (infinitive verb, meaning "to love" pronounced "Lewbeet") the beat of my heart
I knew from the start
That man was trouble
любить the beat of the dance
Never cared for romance
I remember the coolness of his touch
Never felt that much
That man gave me such a rush

(Chorus)
My Russian love
My international love
Winter days snow-capped nights
What has ever felt so right
My Russian lover
My international lover
Chilled days blazing hot nights
What has ever felt that right

(Verse 2)
любить the feelings I feel
His kiss, his touch It's real
I'm beside myself
Think of nothing else
This man has control
He's in my soul

(Chorus)
My Russian love
My international love
Warm-wrapped nights
Holding him tight
My Russian lover
My international lover
It's real It's real It's so real

(Bridge)
Lying in my lonely bed tonight
I think of Russian ice, My sexy Moscovite
The people throwing white rice
I see the light, I think I'm leaving tonight
First plane out, I'm going back
Friends, family understand, I'm leaving my homeland
Never been so bold and I hate the cold
But here I am packing a winter coat

(Music) ( Russian phrases spoken by male in background, English translation not part of song, added only for reader benefit)

(Verse 3)
Good morning
(Добрый день любовника ; Good morning, lover)
It's so right to be here with you
My love, my Russian love, my international love
Be with me
(Я хочу ; I want to)
Forever
(Давай ; Let's)
Snow-capped days, nights wrapped tight
My Russian lullaby
(Моя жена ; My wife)

Okay, so...
I haven't written a song since I was, like, nine years old. My cousin and I had decided we were going to become a rap duo a la Salt n' Peppa. We wrote our raps and performed them on our grandmother's front porch. Shudder. I still remember parts of those songs. Yes, they sucked.
Fast forward...
I now present to you, with my prestigious lyric writing background, International Lullaby. I admit, of the three challenges, I looked forward to this one the least. But turns out I enjoyed writing my song. I even kind of got teary at the end. I know the mechanics are off. Verse 2 is really short etc., but I like my little project. I think I will be writing more songs. It was an escape, not entirely unlike fiction writing, but not as cumbersome. Fiction lays on you, like a heavy cloak. You wear it and surround yourself with it and become immersed in the world you're creating. With a song, there's more freedom. Like pouring out feelings and thoughts without worrying that you're contradicting something written way back on page 119. A song lets you be as creative as possible with the short time allotted to express yourself.
I'll stop here before this becomes a novel.
Great challenge idea, team!

My LOVE Song

Ode to a Comic Book

I found you hidden on the rack
I bought you like you were the newest one
I took you home to never go back
You hit me like a machine gun

Why oh why can't I buy you all?
You're so pretty with your artistic scrawl
Without you all I want to bawl
My friends say I should act my age but
Why can't I buy you all?
Why can't I buy you all?

I know they're mostly for big fat men
But I can't live without those word balloons
Drawn with such a light stroke pen
You put me straight on the midst of the moon

Why oh why can't I buy you all?
You're so pretty with your artistic scrawl

Without you all I want to bawl
My friends say I should act my age but

Why can't I buy you all?
Why can't I buy you all?
And that's about the time my friends all left me
My friends say I should act my age but

Why oh why can't I buy you all?
You're so pretty with your artistic scrawl

Without you all I want to bawl
My friends say I should act my age but

Why can't I buy you all?
Why can't I buy you all?

Why can't I buy you aaaaaaaaaaaall?