https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:33 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-314971 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:56:38 +0000 And since you asked for them:

pawnslost

I would say to myself
Don't bet your heart on this
And when you return from Sweden
Don't leave your parents alone with the photographs
And when you graduate
Don't leave your friends for a sleeping, high blank

Don't run and wait
Because it's only you
Who moves the figures on this board, losing
Every single pawn to get to the other side
With hopes like high-rises
And you will say
If no one waits and holds their plans
We'll never find a space inbetween the words
On his to-do-lists
To meet in

I would say to myself
That is true but you
Can only lose
This game
Because a game it is
And a kiss will end it

So, don't bet your heart on this
But then again I'm not sure I could have helped it.

Lighthouses & Cinnamon Tea

I wouldn't tell myself not to take your hand
In a night, one July, years ago
Or to keep the heart in safe command
As its veins reach out for you
Because life in a hospital bed
Is not where I want to end up at

I might tell myself that they're right
Every night, August, a year ago
There are smiles in the future, cry,
But chocolate and cake
Will never fail you
And you will dare to eat again

I know it's the saddest thing
The snow of five days melting
And the asphalt already breaking
Through

But sometimes there is nothing
Except waiting at the foot
Of lighthouses or drinking
Cinnamon tea in the dark
Sometimes there is nothing
You really can do
And I think I knew
Still I might swear
This will pass

..... little more of the same topic, I guess... you see that it came from the same stream of thoughts :D

Cheers,
straycat.

P.S.: good to see all that studying's not affecting the writing - the nights get shorter+ the sleep less :lol:]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-314971 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-314968 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:08:16 +0000
"If they stopped skimming through the book
And losing a page would make any difference
To where I am
I think I would steal, I think I would unstitch."

One thing I'm curious about - why didn't you start the second song with the title?

"If you stopped skimming through the book,
I think I would steal the yarn and needle
From out of my slapdash hand".....etc....

seems to flow well to me, but of course I've no way of knowing what sort of melody, meter etc you've got in mind....I just thought the title would make a nice opening line to set the scene, so to speak...

Anyway, good to see all that studying's not affecting the writing - now where's the other two songs?

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-314968 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-34190 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:30:55 +0000
strawberry cake with vanilla sauce

It is getting warmer
It is getting warmer again

And I hear her smiling
As she points to the sky and
Talks of futures in bellies

While I wish I had
Cancelled the meeting
Had not gone to the movies
The day before

I wish I had had
That snowballfight
In the backyard
With our neighbours
Like we said we would
On our way back through
A bed-time story town
To our flat where
Each of us went
To sleep in separate beds

She hears me sighing
Sings “where is your mind” and
I find myself saying lightly

“I wish I hadn't had
Those last three pieces
Of warm strawberry cake”
and think I

wish I had had that snowballfight.

If you stopped skimming through the book

I think I would steal the yarn and needle
From out of my slapdash hand
I would apply scissors and knives to the threads
That will make me
Stumble in darkness
And stop dead on one foot
In broad daylight
For years to come

If losing a page would make a difference

I think I would take all the stitches
Out of you
I regret that I sew all those songs
Onto you

If they stopped skimming through the book
And losing a page would make any difference
To where I am
I think I would steal, I think I would unstitch.

Hm... it was so difficult to decide which of the 4 to post and I'm not sure I chose the best... but I am sure you don't want to read 4 at once :wink: And I gotta go to work now, so never mind :)

Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week4-strawberry-cake/#post-34190