https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:57:43 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349996 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:49:56 +0000 :lol: so i won't spell it out :wink:

yes, i know, the music and the rambling... my usual fallacy :P

thank you so much for battling through my rambles!
cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349996 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349734 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:06:28 +0000
As usual, just joking - this is so multi-layered and so deep, it's going to take a lot more reading.

And I'm guessing it's going to take a fair bit of work to put some music to this one!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349734 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349453 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:35:08 +0000
Great vignettes :D so many great lines.



I really like this idea and it drives me crazy to not being able to figure out what the 2 deaths are :evil: .....but it leaves it intriguing not being spelled out :roll:

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-349453 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-38698 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:09:49 +0000
You Only Live Twice #2

From an escalator down the subway,
Clinging to the balustrade like a sailor's wife
Who, though she loves the sea salt on her lips,
Won't exchange her kitchenette's seasoning shelf
For the crow's nest on her own ship,
For postcard years and sea leg fears have made her dizzy

From an escalator down the subway,
Clinging to the balustrade like a sailor's wife,
She makes a call and says that this
Slow-motion traffic accident
On a crowded crossing
Is gonna be the death of her

And her sister says, “you'll live again
There are only two deaths of importance
And the first is worse than the second”

At the third-floor window,
He stands like a statue on a slalom slope
His colleagues rush past him and ignore
His mobile phone bursting into song
For the fifth time now
To roughly the same extent as he has been doing for days

At the third-floor window,
Standing like a statue on a slalom slope,
He knows it's his mother
But he can't talk to her
He can only numbly watch
His failure manifest

But if he answered she'd just say
“You'll live again, the first death
Is always worse than the second”

On a snowed-in threshold,
They blur under a leaking umbrella of words
That they collected for shelter
Or shouted to score sores
Down in a rabbit hole
With no map of the burrows

On a snowed-in threshold,
Blurred under a leaking umbrella of words,
They avoid glances but shake in unison,
Think of what they've been told
And doubt that it holds true
Or relativises the pain

You only live twice
Once before the first death, and once after it
And the first one, they say, is always worse than the second


Er.. or something like this.. not quite happy with it as a whole though I do like some of the parts..
and it's #2 because there was a version #1, as well, that only focused on the escalator persona.
Eh... well. I did try :lol:
Looking forward to turning towards the minimalistic approach for next week :lol:
Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week19-you-only-live-twice/#post-38698