Category Archives: Kabobbles Sing Along

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Kabobbles Sing Along Album Challenge

I have found much inspiration in music and lyrics over the years, and that got me thinking that, with some artists having more than one song that helped spawn writing or that I thought should spawn some sort of fiction, that doing a whole album’s worth of songs would be fun and interesting.

Ideally, I suppose, they would all feature on the same story line or characters, but I am not going to limit it that way since that may not be feasible.

So the idea is, take some part of the song, the whole thing, a snippet of the lyrics, or the title, and use it to create a piece of fiction. If someone else saw this and wanted to do non-fiction, they should. I happen to hate non-fiction except for a few subjects, so that won’t be me.

I’d suggest a 100 word minimum, and knowing me, sprawling things are likely, but that seems a good starting point.

Steps to Complete an Album Challenge:

1. Select an album
2. Write a piece related to each of the songs in some way
3. Share online

For the first challenge, I chose First Aid Kit’s “The Lion’s Roar”

1. The Lion’s Roar – Seeking out and Searching for You
2. Emmylou – The Complications of Language and Breakfast
3. In the Hearts of Men – Chosen Roles
4. Blue – Can’t Keep Reaching for What You Don’t Have to Give
5. This Old Routine – Still Standing
6. To a Poet –
7. I Found a Way –
8. Dance to Another Tune –
9. New Year’s Eve –
10. King of the World

I am currently debating whether or not to do the bonus tracks from iTunes.

Since I stalled out on The Lion’s Roar, I chose to start a new one when I revived it. I will hopefully go back to the other one, but meanwhile, here goes round two.

Melanie’s Stoneground Words

1. Together Alone – The Wrong Time to Go to the Supermarket – Nighttime Comfort
2. Between the Road Signs – Sentiments On and Off the Road
3. Summer Weaving – The Light Under the Door
4. My Rainbow Race – One More Try
5. Do You Believe?
6. I Am Not a Poet (Night Song)
7. Song of the South, Based on a Theme from Song of the North, Adapted from the Original
8. Maybe I Was (a Golfball)
9. Here I Am

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Big Girls Cry

I figure this song fits my week.

A lot.

If only because I think there wasn’t a day this week that I didn’t cry.

I may cry ruining my make up
Wash away all things you’ve taken
I don’t care if I don’t look pretty
Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking

~Sia, “Big Girls Cry”

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Life’s a Dance

So… I’m not a big fan of country music. I’ve even said I hate it in the past.

I have a few exceptions, though, and this song is one of them. When I was a kid, my older sister and I really liked it, and so did Mom, and we had the tape and listened to this song and one other on it. It was kind of funny.

When I had the idea of Dillon and Larina dancing in the barn that I wanted to do for today, I thought of this song again (I thought of a couple others but circled back to this one.)

The video had horses and barns and things that Dillon and Larina would be up to, and I think the chorus kind of fits with the overall story, so I went with it.

Life’s a dance, you learn as you go.
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow.
Don’t worry ’bout what you don’t know,
life’s a dance, you learn as you go.

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Feels Like Home

So I’m going with a song I’ve known for a while, one that could go for any number of things, but when I contemplated what I was doing with the scene I started for today’s piece of the digital care package, I was a bit stymied. The whole “chicken soup” idea was only bringing up silly old songs like “Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder.” (Don’t ask.)

Then I remembered this song, and it helped me find an end to the scene.

It’s very true for Larina, because this is all about her finding her way back home, belonging to the place she grew up in, having a spot in her home and her family, and that’s the story, so yes… this:

It feels like home to me, it feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me, it feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I belong

Not happy with the video I found for this (I hate lyric videos, I’m weird that way,) but I don’t feel like uploading my own, so… here, with lyrics on screen, much to my annoyance.

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Falling in Love in a Coffee Shop

I kind of figure sometimes, with as much as I love and live on coffee, that I’d fall in love in a coffee shop.

Then I remember that I’m very likely to remain single, and I try to be at peace with that instead.

Still, it’s a pretty song, and I like the sentiments in it all the same.

I think that possibly, maybe I’m falling for you
Yes, there’s a chance that I’ve fallen quite hard over you.

Just a sweet thought there.

This is the part that is Dillon and Larina and made it okay to use it with the fic today.

No one understands me quite like you do
Through all of the shadowy corners of me

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Winter

I heard this song and just… loved it.

It’s such a beautiful thought and wonderful imagery, and Tori Amos has a nice voice, too.

It was hard to find something to use it for because many of my characters lack this close relationship with their father, but then… There was Burditt. Burditt is a great father and father figure.

And there’s how Dillon doesn’t see the good in himself after all that his biological father did to him, so this part can fit for his relationships with just about everyone as well as Burditt and Larina:

“Your must learn to stand up for yourself
Cause I can’t always be around”
He says

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast

The part about things changing so fast fits in well with the story, because Larina’s life is completely flipped around at the beginning, and everything she thought she knew and had is gone, and she has to find a way to live with those changes, same with Dillon.

Plus I think, while several things led up to it happening, the way that Larina and Dillon lost their friendship must have seemed fast and horrible for both of them, leaving them both floundering for a while afterward, and that fits as well.

I had to use the lines about the white horses for this story, though, because they live on a ranch and care for rescue horses. The white ones are special, though, as the little fic shows.

Still, there’s a lot of Larina and Burditt that goes with this song.

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Keep Warm

So I am putting together a test of a second digital care package. I put the picture with the little fic, and it’s all here, but this is the song I chose to go with it.

While it doesn’t relate directly to the fic, it has some elements of that and also embraces the whole of their saga, because these lyrics here:

Sables and wine till the end of time you give me much more than that
Diamond rings and beautiful things
Oh you give me much more than that
When you smile

are very much who Dillon and Larina are. It’s not about luxuries with them. They’re simple people who live a hard life on a ranch. And it’s not about rings though he does give her one that is a promise to always be there, but their friendship was always so deep and his smile was everything to her when they were younger because he’d been so hurt and she loved drawing it out of him. He knew her smile as a sign of trouble. 🙂

(I did also use this song for Vred and Malina because rarely does Vred smile, but when he does… it’s for her, and it’s something amazing. And then there’s the effect her smile has on him.)

This part, however, applies to the fic:

And it’s cold outside but I’m just fine
You are mine to keep warm

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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She’s Like the Wind

This is one of those songs I’ve heard dozens of times before and could have applied to many stories, but when I heard it more recently on the radio, it reminded me again. This time, it was screaming Vred and Malina, but I didn’t actually settle in to write anything until today.

I used this part to create my short bit of fic for today:

Can’t look in her eyes
She’s out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She’s like the wind

I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream
Am I just fooling myself
That she’ll stop the pain
Living without her
I’d go insane

Though I’d argue that I didn’t do much justice to the characters or the lyrics.

I wanted to use this, but it didn’t quite work out:

She leads me through moonlight
Only to burn me with the sun
She’s taken my heart
But she doesn’t know what she’s done

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Flowers in Your Hair

Today I managed to resume posting my themed snippets, starting with a Saturday song piece based off this song that I felt fit Enadar and Felise.

I have been listening to the Lumineers lately, and this is not the only song of theirs that reminds me of those two, or of others in the story because this fits them, too.

Still, this was what inspired the piece, so I went with this.

When we were younger we thought
Everyone was on our side
Then we grew a little bit
And romanticized the time I saw
Flowers in your hair
It takes a boy to live
It takes a man to pretend he was there

These are the parts that applies to many of the characters:

Cause it’s a long road to wisdom
But it’s a short one
To being ignored

And…

It takes a man to live
It takes a woman to make him compromise

That part should be done for Vred and Malina, too. Even Alik and Malina.

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.

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Diamonds and Rust

This song is a favorite. And it has been asking for a story for years now.

And I could quote all the lyrics. I always sing along. And now I have a bit of something using this, which I am posting for my themed snippet today.

I love the opening.

Well I’ll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that’s not unusual
It’s just that the moon is full
And you happened to call

This part gave me the opening bit of my latest snippet:

And here I sit, hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I’d known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

I included a bit that used both of these thoughts, and I am, I admit, absurdly proud :

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin’s eggs
“My poetry was lousy”, you said

This part led to her having a memory of the two of them:

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
An’ snow in your hair
Now you’re smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel over Washington Square

Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

I still really, really, want to use this part, though:

Now you’re telling me
You’re not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You, who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague

‘Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It’s all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly

And if you’re offering me diamonds and rust
I’ve already paid.

Kabobbles Sing Along is just what I think when I hear songs. I sometimes see images when I hear lyrics, pictures or movies in my head. Sometimes I relate it to stories. My interpretation of the songs and lyrics are probably nothing like their original intent.