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Now with test lyric ideas!!! Hey!

 

Just curious if anyone has any input on what they like below. These are just ideas, unformed from my notebook.I've just now sort of jammed on some lyrics to each title to see what flows. This is all just written to the title in the past 10 minutes to see what flys or not. That's clear when you notice they all have the same cadence. Whatev... anything?

 

Stuck Holdin' the Shovel

(Imagine Keith Richards attending Ian Stewart's funeral. How ironic. Imagine a father burying his son. Imagine the one who deserves to die outliving the true and righteous.)

 

Never thought I'd have my hand out carrying you down this aisle

Never thought this would be the last time I'd see you in a while

Never thought you'd leave the table with your cup full

And leave me stuck holdin' the shovel

 

Tourists and Purists

Tourist and purists and everything in between

Lovers of pure beauty or the sickly sweet obscene

Drink it in then move it along, trust it has staying power

But please dearest patron don't forget...we charge by the hour

 

Little To Say

I've got little to say, nothin' to add, that hasn't been said before

Words are wasted as they feather to the floor

Don't look at me and tell me I'm hardened steel

I got little to say but way too much to feel

 

Memoirs of an Idiot

If anybody can take a sweet thing, pick it up and turn it right sour

Spoil the simmering broth trying to thicken it with flour

It's me brother, it's me, it's true, I concede

Sit back put your feet up, take your time and read

It's all in there, I've been completely fair, you'll feel the truth of it in your gut

Enjoy my latest release... Memoirs of an Idiot

 

 

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Stuck Holding The Shovel is going to sink or swim with the rhymes for shovel (of which "cup full" is not one)

Tourists and Purists has got to pick up that 5 beat pattern, and there are a lot of songs around that type of paralell construction (Beggars and Choosers, Handbags and Gladrags etc.)

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rsadasiv wrote:

 

 

Stuck Holding The Shovel is going to sink or swim with the rhymes for shovel (of which "cup full" is not one)

 

Tourists and Purists has got to pick up that 5 beat pattern, and there are a lot of songs around that type of paralell construction (Beggars and Choosers, Handbags and Gladrags etc.)

 

shuffle, muscle, hustle, truffle, nuzzle, etc...

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LCK wrote:

 

"Stuck Holdin' the Shovel" is the most interesting title of these 4, IMO.

 

I also gravitate to this as a title, but it has some difficulties to resolve :

1. And leave me stuck holdin' the shovel reminds me too much of Gerry Rafferty - 'Stuck in the middle with you.'

2. However - It's also difficult to sing the two words with double syllables as an ongoing sentence, so the phrasing needs to change, and that may disassociate it from Gerry Rafferty. 'And leave me stuck / holdin' the shovel'

 
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