https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:05:29 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55543 Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:08:26 +0000 2. The lion sleeps with the casserole
3. Abe Lincoln should have seen "Disney on Ice"
4. The Phoenix rose from the ashes, and he was hungry
5. I set it on fire
6. Then I lost my face
7. You say you've got no hands but I saw you flush the toilet
8. Get down from there
9. I'd rather be standing in the rain
10. Everything is defective]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55543 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55542 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:45:04 +0000
1) No Cow On The Ice

2) Moving Down The Hall

3) Caught In My Throat

4) Still On The Phone

5) A File For Everything


Possible lines/phrases/images:

6 ) No one asked about you...

7) ...singing the Lido Shuffle while the neighborhoods float by...

Do you have only one blessing, my father?

9) A house of light with rooms of shadows

10) ...whispering candlelight...

General ideas:

11) The impossible problems posed by "wanting it both ways..." Examples can be political (wanting good schools but not wanting to pay taxes), moral (wanting a God who'll forgive me but punish my "enemies") or personal (pick almost anything here)

12) A song with lyrics that are all advertising lines (be like Mike, be all that you can be, you deserve a break today...). At least in the verses. Chorus could be something very cynical like "you believe everything you see..."

Overheard that might be good somewhere:

13) "That's got "bad idea" written all over it"

14) "I hope you didn't pay good money for that"

15) "Head for the roundhouse, Nellie! They can't corner you there!"
]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55542 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55541 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:44:17 +0000 "What game are we playing now?"  
"Nothing to do but stare at the cows."  
"Maybe if i smell it long enough, i might want to."  
"Can you break my heart any more than you already have?"  
"I'll meet you on the steps next to the lions"  
"Someday, someday i'm going to have ground rules."  
Do you think thats the end?

And then, she stole my dope

Its always the same with youz lot

The Feds are in

Clear the air

One more down, then im gone

It too HOT! to have it

And anyway, I've got all mine

You always blow up stuff

Come on, more yourself
1. A more pleasant plane of existence

2. Today is nearly over

3. No coffee left, need milk

4. Don't read a paper anymore

5. Hate the 'pap' in paparazzi

6. She talks about nothing and expects me to be interested

7. You stole my line

8. You know when you wish you hadn't started a conversation

9. Don't get too close to people who shout at the sky
He's like a cat up licking my arse.

You made your bed sleep in it.

Look down on the clouds with contempt.  

You bring the man out in me.  

The tyre  is only flat on the bottom.

I been looking for you.

It will come, it will.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55541 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55540 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:42:58 +0000 and y'know ... they get enough 'serious' letters daily
all saying the same d**n thing
"i am qualified"
"i am experienced"
"i will kiss your ass"
i wanna have some fun with it
how 'bout: subject: "don't hire me"
and then i'd list reasons why they shouldn't hire me: ie:
"i'm neurotic. i'm higly OCD. i go out often, i drink excessively and don't sleep regularly. i show up late and occasionally with an attitude. you don't pay me enough. i don't work well with others because these 'others' are total morons. i think your ideas suck. your site sucks. i cuss often and i have a big mouth. i'm young and extremely arrogant. i have a huge ego. i think your designer is an not a very nice person, your account manager is a plebe and i wouldn't talk to your project manager except for the fact that i want to shag her; i play my music loud -- and tough nuts if you don't like it. i don't wear a suit, i will not wear a tie. i wear makeup to the office, drink too much coffee, and am not afraid to tell a client or your creative director when their ideas are nutse. in fact, i've been kicked out of multiple planning meetings for such activity."

sad times and rainbow bridges

i want to break something/someone anything/anyone.

i mean
i've kinda hit 'rock bottom'
in all too many places to list

i couldn't possibly be happier

The line between madmen and seers is fine, but there's no question where the Bishop stands.

Once, she had a family
]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55540 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55539 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:41:57 +0000
take another biscuit - not because you want one

I was thinking about the Titanic & it was so sad

But nothing will happen, will it?

There's been a change of plan

In the absence of Candyman Murphy, we have no cakes

the whole network is down

I've got a furry noisemaker

lots of vinyl available for a good home

you might wake up in the middle of the night & think ahhhh!   - yes and I wouldnt sleep a wink

playing catch-up


Ideas & stuff from events:

waking up alone in the night, too hot to sleep, crying about nothing

the disillusionment upon hearing intellectual arrogance in a pub  

1.  When is  tomorrow?
2.  Why are you pulling that "what" face?
3.  Sunday is midweek
4.  The quiet cat still drinks milk
5.  Don't fight with the wind, you will lose
6.  Have you got any salvation, he cut himself !!!!
7.  Which way does the wind normally blow
8.  Have you got a bottle I can put this cap on
9.  What we need is an oscilating squirrel
10.No you're not in my way, but if you move I can get out
Held together by wireless  
How can so many words say so little  
Neverlost  
East Upper Whacker Drive  
Conspiracy of one  
Big Daddy's pimp mobile  

- Everybody wants to be succesful, some want to work hard for it, few are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices

- Ask men if they want to have sex five times a day. Ask them again right after the first time.

- There's a thin line between overcoming your weaknesses and trying to be someone you're not.

- Smile at every person you meet.

- Overorganize and you won't get nice surprizes. Underorganize and you will have many nasty ones.

- You can only give when you are strengthened by the gift of others.

- Plan five things a day and only three will be achieved, resulting in a bad feeling. Plan two things a day and you will be free to do a third with pleasure.

- If you live in an environment which doesn't speak your native language, you lose the eagerness to score but will develop other skills such as listening carefully.

- It's not because you document your actions that you will perform them.

- Conversation needs atmosphere.

- My generation is the first which is not wealthier than their parents'.

- His grave spelled: "His charity knew bounds".

- When will Nike produce shoes with strawberry taste ?]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55539 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55538 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:40:07 +0000
Trader Vic's is in the basement

Riding in the pimp mobile

What if you compared a relationship to the return policy at a department store?

Afraid the rain won't stop

What goes on under East Upper Whacker Drive?

Not enough time to waste
1) the weirdest thing...is seeing something that's really really within your grasp, but knowing that to reach for it, means dropping everything else you're holding on to. Is it really worth it?  
2) Vivid petrol night across festival city.  
3) in this dark we call creation
4) My selections are starting on the jukebox, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is first. It floats across the empty tavern floor, and I stare at the wall, smiling to myself at the unintended irony. The world sleeps in dark abandon, and I stalk empty streets in search of the dreams I've lost. There has to be more than this
5) Strange memories float through the pillars of the Corn Exchange
6) Music stopped being a pleasure to me a long time ago. It got into my veins, spiked my blood, and I couldn't live without it. Even now, I'm just another washed-up junkie struggling with invisible ghosts. And the feeling has gone.
7) Dust hangs like mist across green Spanish countryside,  
Behind her roll skies of fire, the first nuclear night
9) I'm having the trouble telling the difference between beauty and tragedy these days
10) Alone in an empty parking lot, the sea calls for me. It's February 2003, Mahon harbour, Menorca.
11) all are a little older, few are any wiser
12) I finally became the person I hoped to become, back in darkest Dublin
13)  I didn't really have a childhood, I had a prison sentence of solitary confinement. Then I walked straight into another prison sentence, engaged at 19 or 20 or however old I was
14) What a rushing day it has been for me!  
15) sweet and low
16) Remind me again - what am I living for? Because I can't think of one single thing  
17) Despite all my regrets and sadness, I've managed to live a life along the way
1 This black heart longs to bleed red, and it will
19) When you live your life on a knife-edge, it's very easy to slip off. One misplaced word can push you right off the edge.
20) wanna hang out for a while?
21) all the cool kids are doing it
22) and the pink sky gave us that eerie feeling  
23) Somehow, come July
24) Her eyes shine from behind a shade of sadness, but she looks away, her lost world madness
25) Hey what can I say, my life burnt down. I'm just mowing it's lawn so the neighbours don't complain about it
27) the "train don't stop here anymore" station
2 if i wanted friends like you...i would have stayed at home
29) where you had nothing to lose because you lost it already.
30) He might have stayed in the mines for the rest of his life except for World War II

- (dreaming about an ex-girlfriend of long ago, she gently says:) "We had such a good time together, so it can only get better"

- (girl around the corner) "Are you ready for the octave ?" The whole dream through, she and I court each other using musical vocabulary. (Obviously, my subconscience tells me I should spend more time finding a girlfriend and less time playing the guitar)

- A jack-ass like game in which one boy runs for all the others who are entitled to use whatever means to capture him, a.o. throwing bricks. Finally, the fugitive gets stuck in a concrete tube and the pursuing posse carry tube and prey on their shoulders, singing a victory march song.
]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-55538 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/sunday-songwriter-group-week-47/#post-1428 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:37:54 +0000
What are we doing this week?  I have collected all of the random ideas and posted them in the Sunday Songwriters forum.  

Take any two of those ideas, only one can be your own, and combine them into a lyric idea.  What do I mean by that?

Well you might want to use:

"Walking around Chicago with a guitar in my hand"

and

"Don't get too close to people who shout at the sky"

and combine them into this idea for a lyric:

You walk around Chicago with a guitar and people look at you like you are different. "Who is he?" they wonder.  When you see street people talking to themselves or shouting at the sky you look at them like they are different.  Are we really all that different?  What would happen if you just stopped and started shouting at the sky too?

That's it.  All you have to do for next week is write a paragraph with an idea for a lyric.


Good luck and good writing.

Nick

Posted below and in the next several replies are all of the ideas and thoughts collected from the past several weeks.
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10) a song about writing a song - sounds very trite, and I've even done it before, but there you are...

9) Marrakech morning

"sudden death over time"  (what's a list from me without a play on words?)

7) who on earth are you talking to on a cell phone (on the bus) at four thirty in the morning?

6) "once more with feeling" - would make a great country song, no?

5) writing a song lyric in the style of a "for sale" ad, maybe about a car that has too many memories attached to it

4) "imagine your message here"

3) "it's not adding up"

2) I stole this idea from someone I knew in  high school. He wrote a short story about it and I've always thought it'd be a great song: a guy (person, couple or family) gets forced into the median strip of a busy highway (think Los Angeles) and can't get back on. There's too much traffic. So he/they has to try to live there or (as happened in the story) perish in a desperate attempt to run to the other side.

1) "that's not what you're wearing?"

1. I just can't wait to see what I've just seen
2. Life is not about getting the answers but asking the questions
3. Beware of road suprises  
4. Jiggy it around !!!!!!  ( still not sure what was meant here )
5. In my day !!!!!!!..................... and so it goes
6. Escoteric  times  
7. A cloud within a cloud
8. The essence of me
All the corn is gone

Its not as cold up north

Those ducks are geese

camping during a rain storm in a tent that's only water proof on the bottom

Went lawn-sale-ing and bought a guitar, drumset, vacuum cleaner and alien antennae with whirlygigs.

He's only a little bit psycho

Is that lady who gives me money back there?

"You don't have what it takes to be president, so maybe you should go to astronaut school"

You smell worse than an old, wet, skunk-chasing, three-legged, one-eyed black and tan hound dog.
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