MODPOST: Challenge #5
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For challenge #5, we're changing things up a bit. For this time around, we're gonna let our wonderful members offer up prompts. Challenge #5 will focus on song lyrics. Members can prompt lyrics to songs and come the beginning of September, the prompts will be compiled. From there, authors can choose from the prompts. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
PROMPTING IS NOW OPEN!
Rules:
- No more than 2 prompts per member.
- Prompts must be lyrics from a song. Nothing too long, 2-6 lines.
- Artist and song title must accompany the selected lyrics.
- Song must be easily available online (either a download or youtube vid, preferably) or prompter must provide link to download song (at the end of the challenge, all the prompts/songs chosen will be put into a zipped file for download).
- The story does not have to follow the song, only the prompted lyrics.
- Deadline for prompting is August 25, 2011. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Examples:
I still see you on your knees begging me not to drive
But I took away the keys and made you climb inside
And I’d take your place in this field of stone, if I only had the power
Look what it took for me to finally bring you flowers
Chris Young - "Flowers"
Download link HERE.
Blinded by your sacred faded past times
Only time is your enemy
Granted a second chance
To prove that your arrogance
Is stronger than you'll ever be
Godsmack - "Cryin' Like A Bitch"
Video:
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Date: 2011-08-05 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-05 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-07 01:14 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXBYrp6Uzas
Ok. Spoiled for choice with lyrics from this one- so I'll leave it up to promptee to pick a set of lines.
He’s a great lyricist, and this is one of his best yet weirdest, so the imagery should inspire Supernatural fic pretty well!
mix and match, take your pick, listen to the song for the images that I didn't transcribe??
I heard a siren scream Pulled over to the shoulder and I fell into a dream. There were 3 men eating pennies and 2 young girls who cried. “ The west coast is falling, I see rocks in the sky”
Well the preacher took his bible and laid it on the stool, said “With the congregation running, why should I play the fool?”
Well I used to be a folksinger, keeping managers alive, till you saw me on the corner and told me I was jive. So I unlocked your mind, you know, to see what I could see. If you guarantee the postage I’ll mail you back the key.
Well I woke up in the morning with an arrow through my nose. There was an Indian in the corner trying on my clothes.
Well I used to be a woman, you know, I took you for a ride. I let you fly my airplane, it looked good for your pride. Because you’re the kind of man who likes what he says. I wonder what it’s like to be so far over my head.
I used to be asleep you know with blankets on my bed. I stayed there for a while til they discovered I was dead. The coroner was friendly. I liked him quite a lot. If I hadn’t been a woman I guess I’d never have been caught. They gave me back my house and car and nothing more was said.
I was driving down the freeway when I ran out of gas. Pulled over to the station but I was afraid to ask. The servicemen were yellow, and the gasoline was green. Although I knew I couldn’t I thought that I was going to scream.
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Date: 2011-08-07 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-07 07:54 am (UTC)Incubus - Love Hurts
"Sometimes when I'm alone I wonder if there's a spell I'm under."
"Love hurts but sometimes its a good hurt, and it feels like I'm alive."
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Date: 2011-08-08 01:41 am (UTC)Same song for both lines?
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Date: 2011-08-09 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-11 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-10 07:28 am (UTC)Conjure One - Sleep
Drown out the machinery in my head
Bring your peace of mind to my bed
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Date: 2011-08-11 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 01:42 am (UTC)"Rockin' In The Free World"
Neil Young
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
Not sure I did this right and the lyrics are alittle long
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)The lyrics are pretty long. Do you think you could shorten it to about 6 lines? Maybe combine a couple of the lines, so that while a bit longer, won't look so long in the end?
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:22 pm (UTC)Now she puts the kid away and she's gonna get a hit,she hates her lifr and what she's done to it
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:27 pm (UTC)I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand,
under an old street light near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away and she's gonna get a hit,
she hates her life and what she's done to it
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Date: 2011-08-19 11:04 am (UTC)Both sets of lyrics are from the same song
"Blinded by love
The thought of a life without you has got me
Muted by fear
From the pain you left when you went away"
"Somehow all the rain
Is telling me that the pain is going to subside"
Song here
http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Spot+In+The+Corner/3947877
Lyrics here
http://stevecarlsonfans.com/index.php/discography/kinda-crazy-these-days/
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 08:28 pm (UTC)There's nothing left to prove
There's nothing I won't do
There's nothing like the pain I feel for you
Nothing left to hide
Nothing left to feel
I am always here
Since the link didn't show up well... I uploaded it so you can download it to listen to.
http://kliqzcamelot.org/LJ/06-NotEnough.mp3
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Date: 2011-08-26 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 08:36 pm (UTC)http://kliqzcamelot.org/LJ/TimMcGraw-TheCowboyInMe.mp3
I don't know why I act the way I do
Like I ain't got a single thing to lose
Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
I got a life that most would love to have
But sometimes I still wake up fightin' mad
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Date: 2011-08-26 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 01:41 am (UTC)"Turn the quiet up, turn the noise down
Let this ol' world just spin around
I wanna feel it sway, wanna feel it sway
And put some feel good in my soul"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWjtWONuGc&list=FLa6hV8FySwnBLBRefXDK1YQ&index=16&feature=plpp
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 01:56 am (UTC)"I know you know we're had some good times
How they have their own hiding place
I can promise you tomorrow
But I can't buy back yesterday"
(excuse the '80's video. . bit of an old song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8MIp2FOhc&feature=related
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 04:06 am (UTC)Will you be by my side or are you gonna leave when it all falls down
Will you stay with me all the way or will I find that you're nowhere to be found
Would you rescue my life or would you break the promise that you once made
Say would you carry me all the way or would you leave me out there in the rain
Youtube Vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tV0pTOJk_U)
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 04:23 am (UTC)Nobody ever had a dream round here
But I don't really mind that it's starting to get to me
Nobody ever pulls the seams round here
But I don't really mind that it's starting to get to me
I've got this energy beneath my feet
Like something underground's gonna come up and carry me
Youtube Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60sv7WV5zY8&ob=av3e)
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 04:29 am (UTC)And you, you've gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eEobPFhpws)
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:47 am (UTC)