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Just a False Alarm

Today I worked with a few of these lyrics, and I would like to do more because so many lyrics hold such unexplored territory, whole stories that could be told, and I have done a few stories that way. I’ll do more, I’m sure.

I only used the tiniest bit of the lyrics to help create today’s piece.

Dreams, Amelia
Dreams and false alarms

Other lyrics from this song that I find intriguing and inspiring:

People’ll tell you where they’ve gone
They’ll tell you where to go
But til you get there yourself you’ll never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Others just come to harm
Oh, Amelia, it was just a false alarm

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I wish that he was here tonight
It’s so hard to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
So this is how I hide the hurt
As the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm

and

Maybe I’ve never really loved
I guess that is the truth
I’ve spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude
And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

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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A Case of You

It is interesting, to me, how one bit of lyrics can spawn very different ideas. When I gave a part of this song as a prompt, I chose this bit:

I remember that time that you told me
You said, “Love is touching souls”
Surely you touched mine
‘Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

This spawned a fic focused on the first three lines, here, by Liana Mir.

My thoughts drifted toward the last couple lines, though, and were pulled in by a later part of the song to create my own piece.

“Go to him, stay with him if you can
But be prepared to bleed”

Oh but you are in my blood
You’re my holy wine
You’re so bitter, bitter and so sweet

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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Both Sides Now

When a fellow writer asked for 365 days worth of prompts, I thought of my Sing Along section and all the stuff that I’ve been influenced by or thought about writing something for. Now that I’m going to be adding to the Kabobble’s Choice section daily, I figured that I should use my own prompts as well. It’ll be interesting to see how one set of lyrics influences two different people.

The set I gave her was this one:

I’ve looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It’s love’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know love at all

Me, of course, I ended up taking in a lot more than that by looking at the lyrics again and listening to the song on repeat.

So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

Read the fic here.

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.