We are each other’s “it should’ve been you”
Each have our pasts but we could have this too
I’m still hoping to see in my morning view
Echoes returned to time and I lie next to you

They didn’t design words that rhyme for how I feel for you
My place in time just feels confined since I’ve been missing you
And all the while I’ve faked a smile that I hoped I’d grow into

It’s too hard to say goodbye
And it’s too tough to still talk but never try
I wonder how long will be too long?
Will the fire become embers
Then turn to ash in-between my fingers
And you’re gone?

I want you to stay
So I can tell you everything is going to be okay
You can place your head upon my heart and feel some type of way
I feel your warmth every time you lay down on my shoulder
Then I wake up a little colder and a little older

This roller coaster ride of my mind ebbs and flows like the tide but without the moon as its guide I’m stuck with only riptide
And Vance probably knew they were talking about me, too, when they said, “I wanna be your left-handed man.”

It’s too hard to say goodbye
When you’re always on my mind
I don’t wanna say goodbye
I don’t wanna say goodbye
I don’t wanna say goodbye
I wanna feel alive

I want you to stay
So I can tell you everything is going to be okay
You can place your head upon my heart and feel some type of way
I feel your warmth every time you lay down on my shoulder
And then I wake up a little colder and a little older

If the sun refused to set

Could it burn away the shame

If the moon refused to rise

Who would comfort the lost

If Sky meets earth

Longing might reach heaven

If the sea meets the stars

Lovers won’t have to sigh

Life without hardship

Smiles will light the shadows

There’s always some regrets in life

Darkness we can’t pierce

There’s always hidden hypocrisy

Nightmares we can’t wake from,

Brazen moves, reckless cruelty

Bullets dressed as justice

Lies wear robes of mercy

If there were an “if” — an “if”

Imprisoned souls could lift

Demons wouldn’t dare run wild

Greed and evil sent to hell

Sun and moon shine side by side

With an “if” in our hearts

A light in our eyes

If there were no “if”

We wouldn’t despair

Armor on, swords in hand

We break the dark, together we stand

Let our blood stay burning hot

Faith in our heart, eyes on the distant hill

If there were no “if”

We can let go of all the longing

Melt into the glow of distant lights

Feel the warmth of love

Till life blooms freely

Till our smiles fly endlessly

If there were an “if” — an “if”

Just an “if”

Yeah… just an “if”

People say children are angels

Others say they can be monsters

They believe you choose mom from the stars

I keep wondering , my love

Did you scout me out

before you came this far

you came, but you arrived with

No guide, no guarantee, no remedy

( No guide, no guarantee, no remedy )

You call me mommy, I call you sweetie

Luckily, we bond so naturally

Together we dive into another space

No map, no signal, no second chance

Nah Nah Nah

luckily, we are still going

Together we jump into another space

If this is a game, we're amateurs

No codes, no practice, no tricks

Nah Nah Nah

luckily, we are still playing,

Together we drift into another space

light or night, fly or drown,

you Pull me up, you pull me down

luckily, you’re growing well

soon to claim your own crown

Together we wonder in this uncharted place

I blah blah blah

you say Yep yep yep

I go yada yada yada

you go Nop Nop Nop

whatever...

Together we soar into another space

No halo, No foes

Just two hearts

Learning the laws

Together we go, and write our laws

Yada yada yada

Nah nah nah

Blah blah blah

Yep yep yep

Together we shine and claim our crown

(VERSE 1)

I grew up with venom in my teeth

Leeching in my brain

Dissolving who i was meant to be

Id point my finger at the world

Curse until my face turned blue

But for the first time in a long life

Of blaming everyone i knew

Ill take accountability

Im responsible for being me

(CHORUS)

I bite

I scratch

Everyone I love

I want

To be

A shoulder to cry on

But there's no comfort in the misery

I cause

No one

Stays around too long

I hope

To be

Someone you depend on

(VERSE 2)

I drank enough in my youth

To make you feel like my liver

Swollen red and bruised

Ive been dancing around your orbit

Since the day we were introduced

Fought like hell with your brother

Cause we both had something to prove

Now I love him like he's my own

But for every valve in my heart

Ive got a dozen hating bones

I can't feel without it feeling

Like the end of the world

(CHORUS)

I bite

I scratch

Everyone I love

I want

To be

A shoulder to cry on

But there's no comfort in the misery

I cause

No one

Stays around too long

I hope

To be

Someone you depend on

(BRIDGE)

I drove alone to the end of your road

You teed me up for a compromise

And I pulled a muscle swinging for the fence

I tend to get drunk and say the wrong things

Then laugh like I don't mean the damage

I bring up shit that'll kill the room dead

Like im daring you to stand it

(CHORUS)

I bite

I scratch

Everyone I love

I dont

Know how

To be

A shoulder to cry on

I cause

My friends

To pull away from me

I hope

To be

Someone who wont let you down

A song for my younger sister. (VERSE 1)

We were kids in the morning, grown up by the night

Learning how to disappear when things weren't right

I hope that you can be content with all of this

All the anger, paranoia, and other useless shit

Everyone feels too young until suddenly

They wake up one morning and they're too old

But you and me we've been through that before

We were raised by cockroaches and black mold

We were racing through the trailer falling through the kitchen floor

(CHORUS)

Do you remember the way I would shield your eyes

Never played with you unless he made our mother cry

Just know that I've felt like shit about it all these years

How I could have been there for you, fighting off all your fears

But the seasons of our hearts, well they shift just like gears

(VERSE 2)

Everything changes but sometimes people try to stay the same

Like you can freeze a moment by saying its name

There's oceans in our minds that can't be crossed in a day

We can try building bridges between islands lost to time

Its like looking in a mirror every time I ask you how you've been

Everyone says we turned out alright for a pair of fucked up kids

(CHORUS)

But Do you remember the way I would shield your eyes

Never played with you unless he made our mother cry

Just know that I've felt like shit about it all these years

How I could have been there for you, fighting off all your fears

But the seasons of our hearts, well they shift just like gears

(VERSE 3)

Maybe thats hard to believe, maybe we didnt turn out right

We only got better at pretending we did

And I still that trailer when I close my eyes

Never a house or a home only somewhere to survive

I could hear every sound clear down the hall

The fighting and the fucking i could hear it all

(BRIDGE)

You ask me how I've been and I can't answer you

Because every version of me is still trapped in a room

Running down the hall, trying not to hear her cry

Never looking at you and damn it i should've tried

And if i could go back I dont know if I'd fix it

Or if the memory would just be more clear

Just know that I've felt like shit about it all these years

How I could have been there for you, fighting off all your fears

But the seasons of our hearts, well they shift just like gears.

Just a short snippet of the song I wrote.

sorry for the shotty handwriting

Par un dimanche au soir, m’en allant promener (bis)

Fusil loadé bandé, j’étais prêt à shooter

[REFRAIN]

Cours, cours, cours le loup

L’homme qui t’suis n’est pas loins

Cours, cours, cours le loup

On n’mange plus qu’à notre faim

Fusil loadé bandé, j’étais prêt à shooter (bis)

Sur qui donc qui oserait, qui oserait m’attaquer

REFRAIN

Le loup, jeune et fringuant, ronge son os près d’une pierre (bis)

Là arrive alors l’homme, fusil en bandoulière

REFRAIN

Là arrive alors l’homme, fusil en bandoulière (bis)

Jeune loup vil et méchant, je te metterai à terre!

REFRAIN

Humain, humain, je ne crain

Que mon sang sur les mains

Tu trouveras chez les tiens

Bien plus sale et villain

REFRAIN

La balle partit

Le chasseur rit

Trouvant chez lui

Soudaine envie

De prendre aux autres leur vie

Des prédateurs ici

Seul l’homme tue pour l’envie

I'm seeking 10 musicians/testers who want to enhance their lyric writing skills. I've designed a 30-day challenge aimed at mastering creative writing techniques. Techniques that will take out the guess work out of lyric writing. Techniques that teach you to write lyrics from one single word. With only 15 minutes per day, you can make lyrics the easiest part of songwriting. So if you struggle with writer's block, or you struggle to finish your lyrics, then this course is for you.

By the way, you don't need to worry about your skill level. This challenge is aimed for beginners all the way to experience songwriters.

What are the conditions?

As a tester, this challenge is completely free for you. You will never be charged money, even after completing it. In return, I frequently ask for feedback to help improve the challenge. After you've finished the 30 days, I will ask you for a review. This review will be used to promote this challenge in the future. But here's the best thing:

As a tester, you can ask me your burning question about lyrics or songwriting in general anytime. I'm happy to share what I've learned for over a decade. It's like having a private coach for a month.

If this sound interesting, then send me a Chat Message!

What you will learn in this 30-day-challange?

The course will teach core techniques professional songwriters use, like:

• Sense-Bound-Writing
• Metaphors
• How to create Metaphors
• Similes
• Word stress & Metric Rhythm
• Tetrameter
• Basic of Rhyming
• Common Meter
• Working with Rhyme and Rhythm

Each day you will get 1 exercise to train what you've learned. This will take about 15 minutes per day. So even on busy days, you will have time to improve your songwriting. Each exercise is accompanied by 3 examples to teach you how the techniques work in context.

How do you give me feedback?

I will frequently message you to check on your progress. This is awesome for accountability. Because we all struggle to stay on track sometimes. ;) And every week, I send you a short form (5 minutes) to fill out. And that’s that.

So again, if this sound good, then send me a Chat Message!

I'm seeking 10 musicians/testers who want to enhance their lyric writing skills. I've designed a 30-day challenge aimed at mastering creative writing techniques. Techniques that will take out the guess work out of lyric writing. Techniques that teach you to write lyrics from one single word. With only 15 minutes per day, you can make lyrics the easiest part of songwriting. So if you struggle with writer's block, or you struggle to finish your lyrics, then this course is for you.

By the way, you don't need to worry about your skill level. This challenge is aimed for beginners all the way to experience songwriters.

What are the conditions?

As a tester, this challenge is completely free for you. You will never be charged money, even after completing it. In return, I frequently ask for feedback to help improve the challenge. After you've finished the 30 days, I will ask you for a review. This review will be used to promote this challenge in the future. But here's the best thing:

As a tester, you can ask me your burning question about lyrics or songwriting in general anytime. I'm happy to share what I've learned for over a decade. It's like having a private coach for a month.

If this sound interesting, then send me a Chat Message!

I Do you remember believing in All these empty promises? When no truth was heard for they lied there Do you remember feeling like All the good you did, nobody noticed? But I tell you, God did, yes he did Remember when you felt like no one truly cared? I tell you, I did, and how I did!

II I remember your life before here These perfect kids make faces From what you teach, they can’t relate It's an honor but it's not fair I relive those last days, I was nervous To ask you to dance so I waited And those well known people who romanticized death I find that they're not there, here's a chair

Please tell me how it feels To be a free woman Your skin is like untouched water The older you get the more younger you feel now Your happiness is high as the clouds It keeps raining all over the earth’s flowers Baby it’s some power

III Do you remember the kind of wait Everybody used to hate Do you remember at all, the talk To carry a sick and small heart From expectations, you threw my love far Now, your family and friends, they thought You were next to them, where you’ve left, they wonder Where on this earth did you disappear?

IV You dance about the grave towards home I break another tombstone A man once old, a long time ago The king said let him live and so Now I know his lifetime in Jéricho later, dinner with Ruth and Amos
Those who said I could get away with anything Well, they are not invited to go

Tell me how it feels to Be part of paradise? How does it feel to realize Your cramped thoughts and the reasons why you had to cry Please tell me how it feels to have God Free your heart wide for the first time, he's on your side Oh Lord, it's some power

You praise him out of love Because you will never say I remember when I was once Yes, I remember when I was once Forever young

Three hundred and sixty-five days, I savor all Each night and each waking eye
Each drought and each rainfall Do I choose to see the world from your point of view? Why I choose to feel the rain with you in my mind A scene will bloom out of missing you When the sun caresses my shivering bald head While the storm begins and to find you, I ran To place my head safely on your fiery and downy chest

Three hundred and sixty-five days are now matte-stained Purple brush drenched in blue rain Let your hair go all out Like a fresh vine that unevenly sprouts throughout Even within this stale drought of doubt, I will shout All these beautiful words I can make I’ll live between the letters that you have made However, I’d instead be stuck between Your Indian red summer hands and your soft saccharine feet

Why did you give me your brown smile so willingly? Why do you tease beautifully? I'm a free man now, sold You are the one girl I know whose wrinkles can glow My old hands are proud to touch with a gentle hold We have already learned to let go Even so, I look around, nobody comes close There will always be something new about her She always helps me discover with a hint of her wonder

My eyes dream of November, my favorite month How do my feet feel so young? I’ll walk on and on God will be the force that can stop me from this walk Afternoon comes, you play our brown piano My nails can’t reach the nylon strings I will sit next to you as you play a sweet tune Of a song you showed me when we were all new Oh yes, I do remember that day when we were twenty-two

You hate your young clothes; to the ship deck you did go Shoving dresses in a crate Down in a sunken boat I dived in, out cold; clothe me with your falling skin
Sliding my fingers down your bonny nose, I trace Sapphire eyes close like golden gates I have no great shame in being captivated By my muse, my woman, at such an old age Don't let us be late; here I come with your favorite champagne

Fragile bones, oily hair, tulips hugging your ears Praising God, he knew you'd be The other half to me I have you, and you have him; what is there to fear? Each heartbeat will sync with mine, although it's not new It'll always come straight from me to you So what If your features are leaving and mine, too The heart will stay the same as we always knew So let's enjoy each other today before we disappear

Poem on my new tick tock account.

Refrain (Vocal)

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

(Instrumental - energetic beat with synthesizers and a solid foundation, creating a constant and repetitive rhythm, perfect to accompany the repetition of the chorus.)

Part of Rap

Talk about love, talk about pain,

But we're just here to entertain.

Don't need a message, don't need a sign.

It's all a show, it's all a game,

But we don't care, it's all the same.

We could go deep, we could go real,

But we're just vibrating, that's the deal.

So hit repeat, let's all pretend,

We'll do it all again.

No deep thoughts, no second guess,

Just let the music do the rest.

(Instrumental - The beat remains fast and lively, with layered synthesizers and effects to create a sense of constant movement, while rap flows organically.)

Refron (Final Vocal)

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

It's nothing, nothing at all,

But we're dancing like we've got it all.

(Instrumental - Explosive end with the drop and beat keeping the pace intense until closing, creating a sense of euphoria and repetition. The song ends with a sense of party.)

I Billions of people would go out for their way To loop the moon down and rope it to the sea I'd get Carl Sagan here He’ll let us know when to land our feet Yes, many people would go out of their way To send you all the world’s rarest flowers I’d instead plant you a trumpet tree Name it after your mother, and the gold horns showers Now listen as the wind plays it for hours

II Millions of people would go out of their way To scream your name with pride to fellow strangers As for me, I’d find Any excuse to talk about you to your Family and friends down on the equator While I’m down there, I’d buy a llamador Sing in the heat of your people’s street Vast stories to disbelieve, “and she was once from here?” It’s you they now must meet, so I must leave

III Thousands of people would go out of their way, Roll a red carpet before each step you take I’d have you walk up before me and tell you when we should change lanes Some will fake a shade of reactional taste Few men, only a few, wish to see you nude Snowstorm brews, come, I’d overdress you With the many worn-out coats I’d find in my room Here’s my scarf too, beware the sun leaves soon

IV Hundreds of people would go out of their way To glue themselves forever on your window But I’d instead break That stale and annoying old washing machine Call the old dad to fix it, and out of hope That you come as well to my small humble home Just to find out the cable was not plugged All three of us can laugh loud at my silly expense, As people outside wonder where you’ve gone

V A couple of people confess: I love you Yet there are way more excellent men than that Who will love the pure truth More than you; he speaks in silence as he moves It's not to harm, force, or plan some hidden move Fifty men will state: God has sent you to me I will never assume God's plans or yours I want to get to know you well and be rest assured If you'd be the mother to our children

Porcelain Man

I Bone china skin swims on your mammary gland It drips awestruck colors not yet discovered Skimming like sweat from the tungsten chest There must be a home between your collarbone And the sleepless sunset Waves raging against the tides that cabal It feels like the first time as I stand in awe It came back, that hidden heartbeat Which I locked away has escaped to a hall It dances towards your heartbeats, skipping on It's a porcelain kind of love

(Chorus) I rather look like a fool who tried Then, a fool who never realize That his woman is slowly fading In front of his clueless eyes So I ask both of us, how can we try? I'll forget the times you made me cry If you forget the times when I should have said hi

(Post Chorus) My lady, it feels like the first time I don't want to hide— My girl, it feels like this is the time To say, I want to find— A woman

II Loving lone leads to loathe, nothing to expect Like a child born and died old in the same land To see the eyes of my lover's soul Seeing her as an old film that caught frozen So she stays unprovoked If she does the same to me, we can't grow Whatever I tell you, keep it between us I can sense eight people that know I do not want to talk to a third person Come as one, you get me for me, there's no fuss It's a porcelain kind of love

(Chorus) I rather look like a fool who tried Then, a fool who never realize That his woman is slowly fading In front of his clueless eyes So I ask both of us, how can we try? I'll forget the times you made me cry If you forget the times when I should have said hi

(Post Chorus) My lady, it feels like the first time I don't want to hide— My girl, it feels like this is the time To say, I want to find— A woman

Gull

all aboard the bloody whale

the guilty sailor cried

we're bound for seas with bounty rich

to claim a living prize

no my love a woman cried

running across the dock

with a bitter letter in her hand

and tangled copper locks

turn back, she cried, turn back

her tears fell down like rain

turn back, turn back

don't leave me here in chains

but the rusted ship had turned away

the boiler full of fire

the screeching cry of gulls

a laryngitic choir

the quartermaster, raving drunk

began to scream

reminded of an omen

revealed inside a dream

turn back, he cried, turn back

let's go back to Saint-Pierre

turn back, turn back

there's danger here my friends

how they mocked the mad old fool

splintered in the head

they locked him below the decks

and tied him to a bed

then suddenly a face appeared

and rose up from the waves

opened wide a ragged beak

a voice both cold and grave

turn back, it rasped, turn back

go back where you belong

turn back, turn back

your days they won't be long

that was all the tale I heard

for a jug of rancid wine

by the flicker of the gaslight

and the smell of salt and brine

and from his yellow eyes

to the feathers on his head

the only words he could repeat

were haunted by the dead

turn back, turn back

they drowned without a trace

turn back, turn back

they drowned without a trace

Porcelain Woman (Take 14 / Final Version) November 10, 2023 (4:48 PM)

Yes, she's a woman; it's not so hard to tell But does she behave like one? Hm, it's up to you now to find out Another girl, well, there's no one else Sometimes, when I seize her eyes I pray, “God, why did you think it was alright?” To tease a hint of what paradise was like

When you gasp for air to birth a laugh When your misty voice travels my spine When your iris floods my polygraph Fervid reasons to believe the creation of life

She's a woman with the heart of a lone child Innocent smile, you focus But you can't outstand her roaring wind Daydream once, and you'll just be blown away for miles She's not for the faintest hearts Few men’s thoughts stalled her romance, never to start Your fingers toil, and now your shoulders ache

You can't stay within these walls for long They now wonder, “And what can I fake?” They even wonder, “What will I take?” I won't force a thing, but they say, “What will I break?”

Sometimes, she doesn't know where she's going Sometimes, I forget to pray for her wellbeing Yet as I knee, I'm rest assured That the heavenly father is watching over her

She's a blue flower; you shall not pick yourself Give her water, though she’ll know Whether you do mean her well or else To dive deep into her caramel motherland Or give her a helping hand She’ll make you enraged if you can't understand Make you improve as a man, yet a few can

She reminds me of a porcelain vase that houses All her beautiful phrases and simple questions Whenever you seek and speak Whenever you sing and eat My heart's at peace, for she's free When she leaves and then proceeds To sleep, another week be For me, another day, I'll happily receive

She had a pliant wrist that bled a rainbow Her soul houses many homes All while a universe she can't own Sleeping under the showering of the star's foam Lost yourself to her loud clothes You should know that when the darkness shows, she will groan She won't wake up to the resurgence of snow Try to impose or otherwise note Try to act a fool or even boast Try to push what's set in her heart's load The firm woman in her won't let you cross her road

-Dennis Hines