RPM CHALLENGE 2024

Song idea for the 2024 RPM Challenge number 19 becomes finished song number five. Dynamics, am I right? Why yes, yes I am. that secret to good song writing that I always fail to do... and sort of still failed to do here even though the change…

There are not enough songs about coins.

The long, slow death of print media...

Didn't start out to write a break-up song, but like a lot of well-intentioned relationships, this one turned out that way.

Wrote this just after last years RPM. Maybe a little John Prine influence in the lyrics ? Kind of fun :-)

Yup, my wife is the girl :-} I wish I could have made it sound as good as she looks.

Just had to do this. We've all had to deal with someone like this and in some ways might have wished at least for a moment we were them.

[Verse 1] I just got a new method Doing something that's better than the usual thing When anxiety strikes, you use your lungs Noticing how the space is filled up Today is better than yesterday And yesterday not as much as just this day…

Draft recording for RPM Challenge 2024. Recorded on 20 FEB 2024.

VERSE I I'm tough while I'm alive I'll soften up with heat and time I'm fine baked or fried It's up to you CHORUS Cut me up and bury me Keep me down 'till I grow leaves I got eyes, but I can't see I go great with sour cream VERSE…

VERSE I And we, both encased in sweet And you make sure it all stays all so still While I, still let it all flow free Your top, is by far more colorful And you are beautiful CHORUS We are not so different We rise all the same Ready…

VERSE I I come from the cold I need you to knead me Stretch me, I take form Need you to complete me Pr CH Cause you, you make Me all I am and all that I should be Chorus With all that you are craving for I don't know where I fit…

VERSE I And we waited till night falls To be fully changed by the fire But the wait is over now, it won’t be too long And your pushing to far again CHORUS Our Skins turn from the afterglow And we can’t stay too long And we don’t want…

Words/Music/Production: Rich Blenkinsopp