Sample of Week 4 - Alternative Lyrics Submissions

Rest your head right next to mine
Close your eyes and ignore the time
Place your hand upon my heart
Fall asleep don't fall apart

I dream of you, in dreams I see
In your sleep dream of me                     
Rest your head upon my chest
Let my heart beats say the rest

Now you sleep and sleep so well
Eyes are closed but dreams do tell
I kiss you soft, I close my eyes
For now I sleep with you tonight.
 

One of these days I'm going to change 
And then you'll see the hidden me 
I never thought I'd get this far
But am I really where I wanna be?
There are things I have to write
And things I have to say to you
But that will only work out if
If I can decide to see it through

CHORUS
Too many letters
Not enough words
Desperately yearning
Just to be heard
Why can't I tell you
What I want to say?
Not enough words
But maybe some day

Things can never stay the same
I don't know why that has to be
I just hope I don't change too much
'Cause then you might not know me
In a world where who we are
Is based on what we do and how
I guess I have to do something
But should I do it now?

CHORUS
 

Outburst
Of joy is long
Longing
For nothing wrong
To happen to us

Love is a light
Shining into your heart
It gives us a start
To being alone in the night

Enjoy
The feeling of your
Spirit
That which I adore
Is all in you now

Calm the world
That you make me
Feeling curled
Up beside you

Love is a light
Shining in your heart
It gives us a start
To be alone for the night
 

Standing on the street corner peddling your crack 
your killing our youth both white and black.  
With a nine straped to your chest, 
your a roach a fly an annoying little pest,
a troll, a goule,You grovel on the ground, 
You have millions hooked as You cook that stuff by the pound. 
So I'm slaying no delaying do you see what I'm saying 
It's the frist round of a bout 
and like Mike Tyson I'm taking you out.  
You nickle and dime penny snatching little rat 
I should go up side your head with a baseball bat. 
Soon you'll be somewhere lying on your back 
pumped full of holes with a pocket full of crack, 
Your killing our youth both white and black.  
Front page on stage the people in a rage 
your a murderer a rat you belong in a cage.  
So I'm taking you on you and your wack crew 
I don't need any help I know just what to do,  
I have my eyes my ears some paper and a pen 
and with a hand like that no way your gonna win.  
So get off my corner grab your crack and a napsack 
Stop killing our youth both white and black... 
 

Tell me what life is
Because you seem to know
Tell me what love is
Cause lonliness is so low

I'm tired of wanting happiness
I'm turning into this
Look at me with your beady eye
I'm a little glimmer you missed

You try to strike me down
Stop aiming for my heart
Cause you know that's the part of me
That's tearing us apart

I used to look at you and smile
Now I look at you in fear
The evil is seen in your black eye
Through a reflection in my tear

You gave me something I won't forget
I have the knowledge I need
In time I will show you ME
In this battle I will succeed

You try to strike me down
Stop aiming for my heart
Cause you know that's the part of me
That's tearing us apart
 

If love had a face, it would look like you
When I look in your eyes, I find something new
I need your love, and I want it too
Because I can't imagine spending an eternity without you

Chorus:      
So hear's to all the things that I love
To the things that are pure, pure as a dove
Summed up into one word, that word is you

Hear's what I need, what I want to do
I never want to be away from you
I'd still kiss you when your sick, and I'd catch it to
But I cant imagine spending an eternity without you

(CHORUS X2)

I cant imagine spending an eternity without you  
 

Did you ever feel a time
In your life that contained
Such a sense of joy
But so much of pain

Was there ever a single moment
When you felt so full 
Of potential
But yet it seemed to late
To begin your journey

Was there a past in your life
That held you back
From your destiny
That encouraged you
To sit down when you 
Should of stood up?

There might be times
in our life when it seems
A little to late to
Turn around and take
The street we should of traveled by

There never is a too late
For this is only the end
of the beginning

Down those weary streets
Lay a future waiting 
For us, whatever it maybe
It calls to us, and waits 
Till we find our way.
 

If you could only see my smile
And know that it's for you.
I'd tell you that you'll be the one
To make my dreams come true.
I know my heart, I know my mind.
Someone like you is hard to find.

(chorus)
For you I'd fly across the seas,
And give you anything you need.
But since I'm simple, plain, and true
I wrote this love song just for you.

If I could walk right down the aisle
In a pure white gown of lace
Nothing in the world could take
The smile from off my face.
I need you now, I love you so.
Unless you tell me I won't let go.

(chorus)

(bridge)
But when you're not here
And I start to fear
That I'll never see you again
I feel a glow
In my heart I know
That you'll love me forever and ever
My darling.
Ohhhh, simple and true...my love...
(chorus 2 times)
 

Looney tune man sells prizes at door number three
tv dinner scratches at the eyes of a tattered child in the snow
I want to bring the chandeliers down
Teardrops on the floor
and they want you to beg,
keep begging for more

Taxi Cabs and Satin Stains
Meloncholy Sounds and Thin Spaghetti Guitars

We're safe in a box under lock and key
A mouse gets to roam
till he trots on his trap
A mouse gets his cheese
but what are we?
what are we. . . but

Taxi Cabs and Satin Stains
Meloncholy Sounds and Thin Spaghetti Guitars
 

A poor child can't find misery
When looking for salvation
Concentrating just on life
Not melancholy, but elation.
As they tear your purple wings
And rip you from your cloud
You keep your chin raised up high
And all quiet turns to loud.
World wide chaos comes into view
And you prepare for attack
But when you least expect it
Your joys peirce your back.
You wonder why things happen 
You ask why to you
Cause when you reach your peak of red
Your dreams are split in two.
Fly away from your perch
And enter eternal dark
You cannot see to strike a match
And left alone in stark.
If you try hard enough
If you want nothing more
You can escape your terror
and achieve freedom adore.
You can't be ugly and be good
wishing to be one of the shining
With your golden halo above
And your own silver lining.
You wonder why things happen
You ask why to you
Cause when you reach your peak of red
Your dreams are split in two.