Lyric Inspiration

I don't know if this is a game, but it is something that Silvone and I recently started playing. Basically, you listen to a song, examine the lyrics and then write a story inspired by all or part of the lyrics.

There is no length requirement for the story, it can be written as an actual story or as a plot idea. The only rule is that whatever lyrics you post must include a link to somewhere where the song can be heard. Often the music changes your feelings about the lyrics, so it is important that they can be listened to. Don't worry about what everyone else says the song "Means". Just write about what it means to you! Who knows, an awesome RP idea may come of this

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So, here is an example:

Muse, Exogenesis Part I
Aping my soul
You stole my overture
Trapped in God's program
Oh I can't escape

who are we?
where are we?
when are we?
why are we?
who are we?
where are we?
why, why, why?

I can't forgive you
and I can't forget

who are we?
where are we?
when are we?
why are we in here?

who are we?
where are we?
when are we?
why are we in here?

Response:

A man, a king, a warrior...he's lost his beloved in a war who's purpose he has long forgotten. Hatred fills his heart, and revenge is all he can feel. Against the will of his people, he pushes the war on with a hatred for all who oppose him, for if it weren't for them, his love would still be alive. Pleas to end the war come from his own as well as his enemy, but he will not forgive them for their crimes. He is lost in a sea of hatred.

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Again, your response can be as long or as short as you want.
Ready? Here is the first set of lyrics:

U2, One
Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One

There was a man who did no wrong, and that was especially the case when it came to the woman he loved. The woman he loved was above everything else in the world, no matter if it made sense or not.

So, it was tragic when he found out of the cancer she'd been diagnosed with, and the limit of days she had left to live with him.

The two were young love birds, fresh eighteen and twenty, and believed more than ever in the power of love. The girl was devastated with what she'd been told by the doctors and grew bitter. Every small lover's quarrel that she'd ever had with the boy, she brought up. She needed the burried past to aid her in reasoning against him loving her. It was in all of her being to make him fall out of love with her before she died, so that he would not be wounded as her life would be.

The man protested, devoting his love to her without a second thought, despite the things she brought up to tempt him otherwise. To her surprise, on the day before she would die, the boy came in with a wheel chair and begged her to come on a walk with him. She cried and struggled, but eventually gave in, allowing him to carry her from the bed since she was too weak to sit or stand up herself.

They walked the halls, he pushed her slow and fast to give her the last feelings of adrenaline that she'd ever had. He told her of all the things he'd do in her name, and when she was about to open her mouth again to tell him not to love her, still, her eyes opened to the hospital's waiting room.

Streamers and balloons almost hid a preacher who stood tall underneath an arch way, followed by her parents, his parents, and as many of their closest friends and family members that they could fit in the room, all sitting and waiting as the Bride's March began to play quietly.

The wedding was as beautiful as the man could make it, having to plan it within a week, and when the bride and groom kissed there was no doubt in the world of the love that the two shared.

Today, when people see that groom, they still see the bride's blush within his eyes.

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I am not sure. Is this the part where I would post up lyrics for someone else to write a story to? If so, then here we go. If not, disregard them and I will delete them as soon as I get told what an idiot I am. ^^

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Within Temptation - "Bittersweet"
If I tell you
Will you listen?
Will you stay?
Will you be here forever?
Never go away?
Never thought things would change, hold me tight
Please don't say again that you have to go

A bitter thought
I had it all
But I just let it go
Hold your silence
It's so violence since you're gone

All my thoughts are with you forever
'Till the day we'll be back together
I will be waiting for you

If I had told you
You would've listened
You had stayed
You would be here forever
Never went away

It would never have been all the same
All our time what have been in vain
Cause you had to go

The sweetest thought
Had it all
Cause I did let you go
All our moments keep me warm
When you're gone

All my thoughts are with you forever
'Till the day we'll be back together
I will be waiting for you

Yes, you did it right. Sorry, I kind of forgot about this, here it goes:


Letha drove home from the doctors office, the busy world flying by her window...she didn't even see it. She had just found out that she was dying. It might be years...or months. Letha ran different words through her head, trying to find a way to tell her lover, Michael, that she will not be with him for long. I am strong, she told herself. But inside she was terrified...and didn't want to face his possible rejection. She walked into the house, and found Michael sitting at the table, reading the paper. She stormed over to him, anger seeping through her tears, and screamed at him that it is over. She told him that she is no longer in love with him anymore, that she never was. He tried to argue but she wouldn't listen. She breaks his heart, and he leaves...

She went on, living alone, growing sicker not only in body but in soul.

When she was in her final moments of life, she began regretting her decision. She decided to try and find him again...but didn't know where he had gone. She reaches out with letters, calls...and hoped that someday, before she dies, he'd come back to her again. Little did she know, he'd already gone...commited suicide from despair.

Then she died...alone. Perhaps they will meet again?

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In The Glass - OK GO
At first there was
There was just no question
Who wouldn't rather be there reflection
When I get here everything was cold and perfect
When I get here everything was cold and perfect

It was clear and bright
Like a midwinter sunlight
My heartbeat counting down a moment precise and quiet
I look out and saw my own reflection helpless
I look out and saw him overwhelmed and helpless

[Chorus:]
But I
What have I done what have I done
Oooooo (Oh) what have I done
Ooohhhh what have I done
My God, what have I done
Oooo (OH) what have I done
Ooh what have I done

As time went on
You could feel a silence
Solidifying the sound of my thoughts, paralizing
I tried to come back to and melt the glass and perfect
I tried to come back to and melt the glass and perfect

[Chorus:]
But I
What have I done what have I done
Oooooo (Oh) what have I done
Ooohhhh what have I done
My God, what have I done
Oooh oooo what we can pay
To get what you want
Oooh to get what you want
Oh what have I done

[Repeat x5:]
Every day is the same
We're praying for rain
When it finally came
Oh when it came
Everyday was the same
Still praying for rain