OCt- Nov Challenge ~ GZ makes a start

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Well . . . sort of.

So far I've got just two words: "empty" & "hollow" (which I may or may not use). I haven't had the opportunity to give this challenge a lot of thought yet, and my daily walk failed to conjure up any insights.

To make matters worse, I remembered I've already got a song on this theme, and I couldn't get it out of my head . . . it kept pushing new ideas away. I was tempted to post the lyrics to that (and it's already been recorded). But that would hardly be sporting. Maybe I'll post lyrics and song after the challenge.
 
Hmmmm . . . . still not any progress with lyrics. I kind of had something floating in my head before I drifted off to sleep, but it's gone now.

I worked out some chords that will give me a structure, so that's a start at least.
 
i started to write last night and i came up with a very different idea and just worked with it so i have nothing so far
 
keep trying . . . you've still got about a week.

as for me . . . still no further progress!
 
At last some progress!

I've managed to squeeze out a verse:

in a chest I kept my thoughts
safely under lock and key
when I opened up that box
there was nothing there
just emptiness
nothing left
for me

Now for the rest of the song!
 
After scraping together one verse, then spending a lot of time staring at it with nothing else forthcoming, I gave up and went for a drive to watch the attempted refloating of a sunken yacht in the river. On the way, some words started popping into my head.

When I got there, I found a pen and the back of an old receipt, and jotted them down. Now I am only a couple of lines short.

So far:

in a chest I kept my thoughts
safely under lock and key
when I opened up that box
there was nothing there
just emptiness
nothing left
for me

all my words had turned to dust
crumbled stories ever told
I turned the casket upside down
and hoped for something left
no emptiness
nothing there
for me

I cannot find any words
left alive to tell the tale


I walk along an empty street
waiting inspiration's call
my feet kept up a steady beat
but there's nothing there
just emptiness
nothing there
at all
 
Louis, you're supposed to start yer own thread...rules, you know!

-Mike
 
I've been empty since we met
Two lives with too much past yet we can’t let it rest
As hallow as the ground we’ve walked
I’ve kept this to myself
We’ve given all we got!
What’s the point in all this pain?
What’s the point
Of this agony?

We both lost in the end
And I can't fix this
lost in the end
It's gown bigger than the both of us
 
My lead guitar player jst walked in from making some noodles.. i told him to pick up the guitar and we just belted this out and it worked... for the style we play.
 
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