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Good start :D I got to see what it feels like to be on the other side of the fence -reading lyrics about a story I had not read. And it was good for me to realize that it is hard for others to relate or care about the lyrics if they don't know the story....maybe unless the music is very good. :roll: Fortunately, the story was short enough I could read it just now....and now I appreciate the lyrics much more, and can enjoy them.

I think you did a good job picking lines to create a mood. I would have gotten way too side tracked by all the night's events and details about the dinner/dance party to be able to focus the idea to capture one mood...

.....set the whole thing to a haunting Irish melody and your done with this one :wink:

Thanks for sharing.

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week2-the-dead/#post-343222 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week2-the-dead/#post-37798 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:45:07 +0000
The Dead

Snow all over Ireland
The flakes against the lamplight,
Lost in the Shannon,
Lonely on your churchyard hill
Snow all over Ireland
Guess, it's time for me to go west

To the county of my wife
Past the garden where
A boy from the gasworks
Played dead for a cloud in her eye
Was dead to her hand on his chest
It is time for me to go west

Well, I am too clumsy to dance with the dead
In a ballroom upstairs
And I am too cold to care for blue
Sleeping bag corpses
And motionless limbs
On Halfpenny Bridge
Come spring I will have joined their ranks

So it's time I left while the snow's still covering my tracks
It is time for me to go west

Snow all over Ireland
On the daisies Aunt Kate'll plant for her sister
On the maps I have made of the continent
Snow all over Ireland
It is time for me to go west

Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y8week2-the-dead/#post-37798