Thing a Post - The Collaborative Lyric-Writing Forum Game
So there's a lot of creative folks on these boards, and I decided to start something creative. This could just be a fun game to pass time, or it could potentially lead to something more interesting. This is a collaborative game (not a competition) similar to a word association thread, but with the purpose of creating song lyrics. The "rules" (such as they are) are this:
- Someone will have posted a "hook" or other interesting line.
(I'll get us started)
- The next person posts:
1. A comoplete verse and/or chorus that incorporates that line.
2. A new (unrelated) hook for the next person.
Here's where I stole the idea from, if you want to see what I have in mind. I'm still figuring out how the rules could be extended to allow continuation of lyrics beyond a single verse or chorus -- if you have ideas, post them.
Example:
Say the previous hook was "This is the hook". Then I might post:
Next hook: "When life throws me lemons"
- Someone will have posted a "hook" or other interesting line.
(I'll get us started)
- The next person posts:
1. A comoplete verse and/or chorus that incorporates that line.
2. A new (unrelated) hook for the next person.
Here's where I stole the idea from, if you want to see what I have in mind. I'm still figuring out how the rules could be extended to allow continuation of lyrics beyond a single verse or chorus -- if you have ideas, post them.
Example:
Say the previous hook was "This is the hook". Then I might post:
And here's the first real hook...
This is the hook
For the song that I made.
It isn't well-written
But I'm not well-paid.
Next hook: "Doctor, what is wrong with me?"
Next hook: "When life throws me lemons"
Comments
I throw them at cars
I don't want a life
only guided by stars
Next hook: "I have more to do than feel"
Seems like none of this is real
I'm just circumstance in motion
A blur of superficial notion
I once wished I could connect
To some meaningful affect
But that has less and less appeal...
I have more to do than feel
Next hook: I don't even know her name
but there's some body stuck on me
It ain't no fun but that's the deal
upstairs in Brodmann area three.
Next hook: "It's only the shellfish"
[does this qualify as a hook? It's the second thing that came to my mind, after 'I've never been a waiter' which didn't seem hook-y enough.]
ETA: 6 hours of no activity and then I'm ninja'd by 8 minutes? What is this, worldwide lunch break? ('Worldwide Lunch Break' is the name of my hastily-formed Band-Aid cover band)
(PS, I've thought about my [in]ability to do lyrics on and off for years, but I really have no musical ability at all. I relish this chance, like the shadowing of Song Fu, to try to bounce some stuff of you guys, so please, if you have any commentary ...)
ETA: Changing paragraph two a little.
Just this and no more
That has me bent over
This toilet till Four
I should know better
Than to eat them in may
Only in months with an R
So they say
Next hook: acorn are falling
It isn't your selfishness, it isn't a trick.
It's not as if we've not had our share of tussles
But tonight I just can't stomach mussels.
Next hook: "The whole world's gone to lunch"
(ETA: Whoops, another ninja. Next person gets to pick which hook to use. Bonus points if you incorporate both!)
dog are in street
car are all empty
none there to meet.
The whole world's gone to lunch?
Well that just may be,
but where are the people,
with invites for me?
(Next hook...
"Let us live for the moment")
The acorn are falling.
It's that time of the year
Where gravity is calling
Our bounty to the ground
Squirrels assemble!
It's time for a munch
Now is the time that
The whole world's gone to lunch
And there are acorns abound!
Next hook: "They're out of McNuggets, this is an emergency!" (Inspired by a true story.)
ETA: I should have made my hook "Ninja Monkey'd" And Joe and I both used both hooks, too~
Ninjoe'd !!!
;' )
The basement where I was held was stocked with Tofurkey!
I escaped the Vegans with my carnivore teeth
gnawing quite easily through the all-cotton sheath.
Next: "Frivolity is a stern taskmaster"
I can't do what I'm s'posed to 'cause I must procrastinate,
I can't always do what you ask, master
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster
(the meter changes because I had Blue Sunny Day in my head as I wrote the first two lines.)
ETA: new hook from twitter: Doesn't feel completely like death today.
so hopefully if i just pay
my taxes death will stay away
hey wait - oh god - it's 7th may
oh hell - but wait! a late fee might delay the day
it doesn't feel - completely - like death today
next:
a liver's a terrible thing to waste
With a slight chance of blowing winds of change
The ground is shaking with a thunderous boom
And dark swirling clouds of aint that strange?
Our timeline is over my dearest friend
What weve had here is soon to be gone away
But because of my feelings for you, this end
Doesn't feel completely like death today.
ETA: Ninja'd!! darn it!
Three08's hook
next:
a liver's a terrible thing to waste
But Lord, I want to have just one more taste.
So please, Oh God, with some post-haste.
Have the cashier open these iron gates.
Another story inspired hook: This is where jingle trucks go to die.
Of an Aqua Maroon spotted freight haulers ride
For miles their carcasses litter the road
Theres a truck like a circus, theres one like a toad
These bright colored trucks really capture your eye
Highway One, this is where jingle trucks go to die.
Next Hook:
Am I not happy?
Am I not happy?
Stop asking me please
If I'm not happy
I do what you say
I say what you please
Since that day
I've been down on my knees
Am I not happy now?
ETA: Ah yes, my 'hook': "Oh my! I got ninja'd again."
like a psychotic shrink,
about the perplexities of life
but through all the strife
I come upon the realization
that I can't grip this alien sensation,
this unknown entity,
welling up inside of me.
But if I can't feel joy
watching my son play with a toy,
or not cringe at something sappy,
then...Am I not happy?
(I'm sixteen so I don't actually have any children, that I know of!, but it seemed like it would fit together better with that bit in. Also, I meant the main subject to be asking themself if they were happy or not.)
ETA: Grrr, it looks like I've been ninja'd by Encubed = / So the next person can go with whichever hook they like more.
Also, we should figure out a way to keep these mix ups from happening.
Next Hook:
a swaggering man came walking in
and beat me by just a short time.
Oh My! I've been ninja'd again,
by a swaggering man who could rhyme.
Next hook: Maybe I used too many ninjas.
Took the stall next to mine as he gave me a grin
I should have known by the way he swaggered
That wide stance of his, it must be Ted Haggard
(was that his name? don't remember)
Next: Fourteen in a row, and I'm only half finished.
a swift attack
a butterknife
that ends my life
I was begging him "please!
Not my arteries!"
So he went for the veins
And I felt the pain
I thought one thing as I died then
Oh my! I got ninja-d again!
Next hook: "There was a holdup at mcdonalds yesterday"
another alternative would be that as soon as you spot one you wanna pick up, post "taken" and then compose your piece and then edit and stick it in.
Earnin' my pay
Everyday
Flippin burgers was crap
Man I felt like a sap
So I thought up a trap
And now everything's going my way
I'm done flippin burgers for pay
Cause there was a holdup at McDonalds yesterday
*Big Band Outro*
.......And it was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Next hook: "My monkey's going to hell".
Fourteen in a row, and I'm only half finished.
Then thirty two Arby's, a dozen BKs,
I'm really going out in a flourish.
I'll finish off every fast food place I can
My cohorts and I on a rampage.
Maybe I used too many ninjas?
Is there such a thing in this age?
We're the cholesterol killers
The enders of fat
And we won't stop 'til everyone's healthy
We're the cholesterol killers
And that's simply that
So put down your Slurpee and drink tea!
(I want, like, super triple bonus points for cleaning up ALL THREE hooks~)
ETA: DAMMIT ENCUBED! :P Use his hook, I GUESS~ : "My monkey's going to hell".
My monkey gets sizzled, sometimes.
My monkey's got a gamey taste and twenty secret herbs.
My monkey acts evil, sometimes.
My monkey doesn't see or hear or speak like those proverbs
but every monkey's got a mean streak,
it doesn't matter if he don't peek,
he'll see the evil on his own, bec-
ause nothing ever makes a monkey love you.
My monkey gets saut
Don't get too comfortable with everything I gave you,
I'm going to come return someday.
You think you have a right to all the stuff I gave you,
But I'm going to take it all away.
Next hook: "It's guys like me who put pennies on railroad tracks"
Im the reason you won't get your cat back
I pull too many pranks
I rob too many banks
Your lives have failed
Your trains have derailed
And It's guys like me who put pennies on the railroad tracks
Next hook "all beacuse I had too much coffee"
but don't have anyone,
'cause I'm nobody's mooon
and I'm nobody's sun, (or: I'm a nobody sun)
I'm just spinning out here
all alone in the cold
'cause I'm too hot to handle
guess I'm too hot to handle.
For the hook I'll go with the one I thought of earlier: I've never been a waiter.
She knows that I love her, and she's got a plan
Once he croaks she says that I can date her
But I guess I've never been a waiter
Every single day, I follow her home
When they leave to get dinner, I follow some more
In my disguise, I poison the wrong fried potater
Oops! I've never been a waiter
Now she's dead and I'm in jail
I really wish I could have got out on bail
I plan my escape, to get out sooner not later
I guess I've never been a waiter
My mom brought me cake, my plan was real sly
But what's inside? Nothing more than a lie
It takes way longer with a cheese grater
Now I've become a woman hater
I guess I've never been a waiter
The next one was going to be about getting *ahem* pounded by an inmate and how waiters are effeminate, but that's not true and I wouldn't want to offend anyone, plus I need to go to work now.
Next hook: Where did all this money come from?
I was just drinking
but I have this feeling
That something just isn't quite right.
an uncomfortable feeling in my bum,
and a tattoo that says, "for hire"
writ across my back entire
and where did all this money come from?
No I don't remember what happend last night.
new hook: Squids feel funny in the dark
Where did all this money come from?
My uncle wasn't rich,
My girlfriend's not a millionaire,
It must've been my wish.
I found an antique oil lamp,
And thought that it was funny.
I rubbed it's side,
And then I cried,
"I wish for lots of money."
Use rob's hook, though: "Squids feel funny in the dark "
Some people up there want me to drown
I feel the water taking me to my hearse
But, all in all, the darkness is worse
Looking down, can't even see my hand
Something touches my leg that's as rough as sand
I hope to god that was a squid and not a shark
If it was, take my word, squids feel funny in the dark
Next hook "I don't think, I drink"
Flesh ripped away in bloody strips
Im laughing though just like the shark
Squids feel funny in the dark
ETA: NINJAS!!!
Pies Hook:
Next hook "I don't think, I drink"
yes, all i wanna do is play in the sun
and muck about with a mustard-filled water gun
get drunk, pass out, and have to run
but no one else says- you're the only one -
that i don't think
i could give them the real world but the real world's boring
those playing the home game are, by now, snoring
cos soliloquizing will ever lose to whoring
when the nielsen man tells us who they're ignoring
so sure i drink
i'll drink and i'll smoke and i'll screw like a rabbit
i'll chase nuns around til one trips on her habit
or jump from a plane, sure! i find life and grab it
cos when this all is over and the cameras all have gone,
will anyone else care about your silly little facts?
ain't no one ever leaves their tube on c-span for too long
they'd rather tv'd eat their brains and give them cataracts.
hook: "it's not you, but it's not me either"
dang, that's twice i've ninjaed you, gle3nn. sorry!
If I do I will need a strong drink.
Though this challenge is tough it is quite fun
Now I need some more time just to think
This process alone is frustrating.
Will I get it done and be the first?
All those ninja's are out there and waiting
And my drinking's not because of thirst
I don't think I'll get ninja'd on this go
But wait let me finish this drink
The liquid is making my thoughts slow
And slippery like an ice rink
I need to get myself together
Finish this and just hope it don't stink
I don't think......
I drink
@%%^#! Ninja's!!!
Three08's hook
hook: "it's not you, but it's not me either"
hook: "it's not you, but it's not me either"
Oh tell me so I can alert a Westmeather,
Who gave you these lines, who earned us this breather?
You say it's not you, but it's not me either.
My wallet on the way out the door.
Now I ran out of gas*,
And I had to skip class,
And my stomach wants to settle a score.
I don't want to forget my wallet anymore.
*Petrol for non-US readers, but that doesn't rhyme.
Next Hook: "If life were scored like golf"
If life were like a swim relay
I would truly be an ace
If life were like a distance race
I would be the perfect catch
If life was like a croquet match
And I'd be David Hasselhoff
If life were scored like golf
Next Hook: "I would jump if I were you"