#ScribesAndMakers 4/8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

When meek folk sleep
In their dull, soft beds
I creep over roots
That the weasel treads
And only the fox knows the ways I go
And nobody knows the things I know...
Wise I be,
Wise I be
When the changeling blood runs green in me!

Excerpt of "Changeling" by Leah Bodine Drake, p.36 in A Hornbook for Witches.

(There are a lot of other good poems, but that's the one that stuck with me as a child, and made me hunt this book down decades later.)

#ScribesAndMakers 4/8 Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you.

*Speechless* from Disney's LA Aladdin, performed by Naomi Scott, has been resonating in my soul a lot lately.
I can't fathom why...

"I won't be silent
You can't keep me quiet
Won't tremble when you try it
All I know is I won't go speechless.
Speechless

Cuz I'll breathe
When you try to suffocate me
Don't you underestimate me
Cuz I know that I won't go speechless."

https://youtu.be/mw5VIEIvuMI?si=PEkYujn0_sCDHa0V

#ScribesAndMakers 08
Sarah Brightman - Deliver Me

Deliver me, out of my sadness.
Deliver me, from all of the madness.
Deliver me, courage to guide me.
Deliver me, strength from inside me.

All of my life I’ve been in hiding.
Wishing there was someone just like you.
Now that you’re here, now that I’ve found you
I know that you’re the one to pull me through.

My intro to Sarah as my life unraveled. 16-yrs later, it fit Riparia's life. It’s pleading w/someone, yet recognizes inner-strength.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 8: Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas."

Hallelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell,
The Christmas we get, we deserve

I always thought of that as what 'we' *as a species* deserve. If we can't get it together and have one peaceful, happy, generous day...

So we should work for that. Maybe even more than one day.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I've never written a song, but my eternal answer to this is Grace Petrie's "The Losing Side":

And if I spend my life on the losing side
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
There's a better world and on a quiet day
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
She's on her way

#ScribesAndMakers 4/8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

Pretty much anything by Richard Thompson. Recently I've been singing "Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen" in my mind:

If you'll have me, truly have me
Word unspoken, sight unseen,
I'll come newborn to be your lover
Word unspoken, sight unseen....

#ScribesAndMakers Apr8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

"Cigarettes can kill you
But if they don't, they make you stronger"

There's a lot of good in this song. Living Lo-Fi by Cheekface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrZOLYyK44

#ScribesAndMakers Mar 8
Resonating song lyric

My Woodspell MC is a singer/songwriter & I thought the text should have songs. I cannibalized from my angsty teens-20s. She's enchanting the crowds, so they didn't need to be good, but one I liked was about a little girl's confusion at the world. A final line you have to imagine the MC belting out:

"Jam smeared on her face, hair all out of place,
Wide eyes looking to see!
Is there a time for?
Is there a place for?
Is there a world for me?"

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 8: Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you.
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 8: Share a simile or metaphor that stuck with you.

Combining these 2...

Al Stewart's lyrics tend to stick with me for some reason. Vivid similes and metaphors. Here's a particularly good one from "Year of the Cat":

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running,
Like a watercolor in the rain.

#ScribesAndMakers 8, Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you.

I do dabble in the occasional diddy. My poems have a certain rhythm that easily leans into the lyrical.

8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

Always resonates:

"...Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... "

John Lennon, Imagine

and also always

"...Hey, farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
..."

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 8 - Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song)

Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
An October's day, towards evening
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough
Salt on a deep chest seasoning
Last of the line at an honest day's toil
Turning the deep sod under
Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone
Flies at the nostrils plunder.
The Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron vie with the Shire on his feathers floating
Hauling soft timber into the dusk
to bed on a warm straw coating.

Heavy Horses / Jethro Tull

8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)
Lyrics by our friend @johnyNocash from Gullible's Travels
Your good looks and my unlucky charms
We could make our living selling hand me downs
If you're killing time
I've plenty on my hands
Desperate times call for gullible measures
I can't accept these exotic pleasures
I've had a bellyful of being me
Once had a heart turn to stone
Gave it to a girl calling Rag & Bone

#ScribesAndMakers 8/4: Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I was a songwriter before I was a novelist, and might still be if I weren't such a rotten guitarist.

This is from "Strange Jane", the song which named our lone EP, "We Are All Strange Jane":

"...if this is strange
Well, I'm Strange Jane
And I love myself far too much to change
If that's strange, who wants to be normal?
If that's strange, who wants to be normal?"

#ScribesAndMakers 4/8: Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you.

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It′s based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer

Yeah, that. The entire song always spoke to me, and now that I'm an author, it does so tenfold.

(Paperback Writer, Beatles)

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 8: Share a song lyric you've (written or) heard that resonates with you.

Rightly or wrongly I’ve always been proud of my own lyrics. Here’s two that I think ‘yeah, actually, that’s not bad’:

“I’ve got a way with words but it’s the wrong way”

and

“I’ve seen the world; the world saw me coming…”

As for lyrics by other artists, well you can pretty much take your pick from 1990s Trash Can Sinatras…

“When I think of you it’s as the genius I was”

“You came into my life like a brick through a window”

I could go on. And on. And on.

And then there’s other lyricists who say things that really resonate. Half Man Half Biscuit’s Nigel Blackwell has come up with some fantastically self-deprecating lyrics
“Face down in a last ditch: my natural home”

Or ones that are so painfully well-observed
“When I had my loft converted
Back into a loft
the neighbours came around and scoffed
And called me ‘retro’

And then there’s Neil Finn, Mikey Georgeson, Neil Hannon, Stephen Jones…

I could be here all day.

#ScribesAndMakers 8th April 2025. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain
Prince

#ScribesAndMakers 4/8. Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

Shakespear sisters, Stay:

You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell
If you can break the spell back in your own world

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 8: Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you.

I haven't written a song since my childhood, but here's the one that always touches me:

"Never forget it's a good life
I know you can turn it around
Just make for the break in the clouds
I′ll wait for you there"

(It’s a Good Life, Rea Garvey)

full lyrics: https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/rea-garvey/its-a-good-life-2341d80f.html