Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC028 December 2019 - Submissions until 24-12-2019 11:59pm GMT+1/CET
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 01:35 CET
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ZU0WN ... p=drivesdk
I hope I'm not too late.. Gotta run to the store, I'll be back to add some thoughts. Thanks!
Some starry day we'll fall away
Once traveled through all the ages
It's all we took: a hardcover book
No title that needs display
Just pictures on the pages
Some sunny night we'll see no light
Swept under the ocean foam sound
And never see how far we bleed
Like skeletons dropping bones
Not knowing where to go now
There will come a time in that book we bind
Where the pages end on a fire sign
And the record sent as a golden friend
It will find it's way to a molten end
Can we take it slowly while the wind ain't blowy?
If I die before you, you're the one and only
Will I see you wonder why you're sinking under?
When the lightning strikes me, will you hear the thunder?
Some people say we're in a play
What happened to all the stages?
It's all we took, no need to look;
There's nothing they wrote to say
Just pictures on the pages
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Thoughts: I mentioned in a previous post that I wrote a loose verse of this about 4 years ago, but it has been on the shelf until this challenge inspired me to pick it up again, and turn it towards the topic at hand.
After finishing it, I figured out an artsy-fartsy way to put it:
Act1: Contemplating the end
Act2: Realizing the end
Act3: Accepting the end
I don't appreciate songs being explained too much, and I like to leave them in the dark, but since I wrote this as a challenge, here is what I made of it:
The song tells a story, as much as a song can without sounding like one. It is sprinkled with metaphors and imagery, but the underlying concepts are: there is nothing to go on after civilazion has collapsed, because nothing was left behind, and/or there was no way to figure anything out because after only a few generations, illiteracy became inevitable. Eventually, it becomes only two people, (as far as they know) whether they be lovers, friends, or parent and child. There is speculation on the cause of the end, but no mater what, nature always has the ruling hand; "*WHEN* the lightning strikes me, will you hear the thunder?" (Or will I be the last one?)
The "record sent as a golden friend" is a reference to the Voyager spacecraft that was sent with a golden plaque, that attempted to explain our existence to any intelligent life that may come across it, and includes a recording of the sounds of earth, including nature and music. Sadly, it is quite possibly a message in a bottle that is extremely unlikely to ever be found, and will find it's demise in the pull of a star or black hole many many millions of years from now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
It's kinda sad : )
I hope I'm not too late.. Gotta run to the store, I'll be back to add some thoughts. Thanks!
Some starry day we'll fall away
Once traveled through all the ages
It's all we took: a hardcover book
No title that needs display
Just pictures on the pages
Some sunny night we'll see no light
Swept under the ocean foam sound
And never see how far we bleed
Like skeletons dropping bones
Not knowing where to go now
There will come a time in that book we bind
Where the pages end on a fire sign
And the record sent as a golden friend
It will find it's way to a molten end
Can we take it slowly while the wind ain't blowy?
If I die before you, you're the one and only
Will I see you wonder why you're sinking under?
When the lightning strikes me, will you hear the thunder?
Some people say we're in a play
What happened to all the stages?
It's all we took, no need to look;
There's nothing they wrote to say
Just pictures on the pages
----------------
Thoughts: I mentioned in a previous post that I wrote a loose verse of this about 4 years ago, but it has been on the shelf until this challenge inspired me to pick it up again, and turn it towards the topic at hand.
After finishing it, I figured out an artsy-fartsy way to put it:
Act1: Contemplating the end
Act2: Realizing the end
Act3: Accepting the end
I don't appreciate songs being explained too much, and I like to leave them in the dark, but since I wrote this as a challenge, here is what I made of it:
The song tells a story, as much as a song can without sounding like one. It is sprinkled with metaphors and imagery, but the underlying concepts are: there is nothing to go on after civilazion has collapsed, because nothing was left behind, and/or there was no way to figure anything out because after only a few generations, illiteracy became inevitable. Eventually, it becomes only two people, (as far as they know) whether they be lovers, friends, or parent and child. There is speculation on the cause of the end, but no mater what, nature always has the ruling hand; "*WHEN* the lightning strikes me, will you hear the thunder?" (Or will I be the last one?)
The "record sent as a golden friend" is a reference to the Voyager spacecraft that was sent with a golden plaque, that attempted to explain our existence to any intelligent life that may come across it, and includes a recording of the sounds of earth, including nature and music. Sadly, it is quite possibly a message in a bottle that is extremely unlikely to ever be found, and will find it's demise in the pull of a star or black hole many many millions of years from now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
It's kinda sad : )
If any of you is unsure whether or not you're still within in the deadlines, we do have a Global Countdown for that purpose. Also, the World Clock at the index of the forum.
How do we go from there?