OK. We didn't get a ton of participation in the Lyric Challenge. But for those of you who did step up to the plate, I thank you!
So how about this as a creative outlet......instead of writing lyrics for a complete song (and never mind putting THOSE to music).....how about we throw out some song title ideas? What sort of title would grab your attention? What title would make you think, "I wonder what that song is about"? Here are thirteen titles I've come up with (I know I've got a lot more in my head):
No More
No Longer Alone
No Longer Lonely
No Longer Here
No Longer There
Looking Back
Alone Together
Every Now and Then
Falling (out of love? In love? Into depression?)
Please Don’t Say Good-bye
Lookin’ for Comfort
She Lived Alone
There Comes a Time
Let's hear what you've got.
Well this reminds me of a project I started after a few TGers commented on my dramatically expressive eyebrows. (which Sue often teases me about at home, when I'm singing that is). Chas said that my eyebrows had a life of their own and looked like caterpillars. So I started writing a kids song called "Caterpillars on my forehead". In one version all of the verses were about the attics that my caterpillars get up to. On another I branched into other animals and their characteristics.
Some examples I've jotted down on my notes app on my phone.
Version 1
(Insert oohs if appropriate)
Caterpillars on my forehead
Ooh ooh ooh
Love to dance about and frolic
Ooh ooh
Love to have a little fun,
Love being in the sun
Love to jump in the air,
They don't care
'Cause they're crazy and they know it.
Caterpillars on my forehead
They can really make you giggle
when they really start to wiggle
Sometimes they get down.
Turn my smile to a frown
But they pick up again,
when they see a friend
Then they're happy as can be
they start to go whoopee '
Caterpillars on my forehead.
Caterpillars on my forehead
They can be real horrid,
Look real surprised,
jump off my eyes.
You'd look shocked too,
if yours did it to you
Caterpillars on my forehead
Version 2
There's a rhino in my kitchen
He has such perfect diction
He loves Mozart and Chopin.
He's an expert on Japan
Well know across that land.
[line]
There's a rhino in my kitchen
There's a gator on my ceiling
Boy he sings with feeling
Loves rhythm and blues
and his blue suede shoes
This crooner gets you swooning
[line]
There's a gator on my ceiling
Obviously the above needs work for both versions. Still it was fun just playing with ideas. I have some sung basslines and ooh pattern ideas recorded in my phone too.
So yep! There's power in a song title.
Shel