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The Lion’s Roar

I love this song.

I think it could turn into dozens if not hundreds of fics. I’m pretty sure I used it to prompt others, though that was a long time ago. I’d even quote the lyrics for the whole song because I love almost all of them.

Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things
She plays a tune for those who wish to overlook
The fact that they’ve been blindly deceived
By those who preach and pray and teach
But she falls short and the night explodes in laughter

This is the part I believe I prompted others with, though I could apply it to many of my own characters:

Well I guess sometimes I wish you were a little more predictable
That I could read you just like a book
For now I can only guess what’s coming next
By examining your timid smile
And the ways of the old, old winds blowing you back ’round

I chose this part to do the first part of my album challenge:

Sometimes I wish I could find my Rosemary Hill
I’d sit there and look at the deserted lakes and I’d sing
And every once in a while I’d sing a song for you
That would rise above the mountains and the stars and the sea
And if I wanted it to it would lead you back to me

And the lion’s roar, the lion’s roar
Is something that I have heard before
A children’s tale, the lonesome wail of a lion’s roar

That does remind me of my own childhood and a certain set of books in particular.

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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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