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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Free - NSFW (2016)

Free (NSFW)

Chagall
March 8 2016 International Women's Day

Lyrics:

Hustling at my job and my coworker says I
Must be greedy cause I'm working too hard (for lard)
He don't know where I came from
The streets I've been harassed on would make a hooker blush
But because I'm a woman I get hate for wanting to be flush

Get called names like bitch and cunt every day
Work ten times as hard for half the chance (a glance)
But if you sit back and look for romance you're a gold digger
it's a hard world for a woman it's five times less fair & hair trigger

Damned if you care
Condemned if you don't
Whore if you fuck
Slut when you won't

Yeah I just wanna make enough to get out
Born a slave to society and self-doubt
But in my heart I'm a ruler
Got a kingdom within treasure's in my soul
Don't need to be rich just need to be free

Free to love
Free to sing
Free to be
Free

Materialism is a curse on this whole earth
But the abundance is there it's just been shut up (cut up)
So why chase crumbs like dogs
When there's a kingdom that never rots and thieves can never steal
It's deep inside your mind baby I've been there I know it's for real

Damned if you care
Condemned if you don't
Whore if you fuck
Slut when you won't

Yeah I just wanna make enough to get out
Born a slave to society and self-doubt
But in my heart I'm a ruler
Got a kingdom within treasure's in my soul
Don't need to be rich just need to be free

Free to love
Free to sing
Free to be
Free me

Wanna rise rise and shine
Shine up name in lights

Free to love
Free to sing
Free to be
Free
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When The Force Flows (2015)

When the Force flows

Chagall
December 10, 2015

- Prompted by #HipHopStarWars

Lyrics:

Never be a Sith, never have a creed
Dark Side's just a spiral of destruction, lust and greed
I see, I seek something deep inside
and the finer things of life and love which can't be denied

So I make my own mind up which side's up
And which side's upside down
Gonna train hard, best part
Gonna get out of this damn town

Just remember my heart centre
Enter the wisdom within
I spin the crucible of galaxies
Ecstasies, realities on a whim
Did you know?
When the Force flows it glows
When the Force flows


Never be a Jedi, never submit
The Council calls themselves wise but they've never lived it
Light Side is blind which is plain to see
But it's cool to be a Force Ghost for eternity

So I make my own mind up which side's up
And which side's upside down
Gonna live right, gonna apply
Live to be proud when I die

Just remember my heart centre
Enter the wisdom within
I spin the crucible of galaxies
Ecstasies, realities on a whim
Did you know?
When the Force flows it glows
When the Force flows
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Luxury Is A Necessity (FAWM 2016)

Luxury Is A Necessity

Chagall
FAWM 2016

Envisioning this as a show tune, maybe cabaret jazz?

Liner Notes

Ok wine being food *is* a stretch... but...

Lyrics

Sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do
Twenty dollar coffee beans and a mirror for the loo 
A record player and a big soft chair
Cause I ain't going anywhere

You can take your mansion and shove it
You can take your fine cars, what of it
Just give me a computer and an ipad and a tree-house
Luxury is a necessity

Oh people will frown
people will scowl
But us high-heeled girls
Ignore their howls

You can take your private planes, what of em
You can take your cigars and flush em
Just give me fine wine and I'll make this a glee-house
Luxury is a necessity

Comments



  • @colgoo  5 days
    I hope my comment didn't hurt your feelings. Illness does take its toll on relationships. I think that there should be a special class on how to do friendship on a regular basis. So many people don't know how to be supportive during rough patches. That makes those who do that well much more precious. I hope you are able to find better health and less pain soon.
  • @colgoo  1 week
    I like that you point out the simple luxuries. One of mine is a new board game to play with my friends. You can keep your high heels and your bottle of wine. I'll choose good friends over those anytime.

    Great writing here. Very relatable and a catchy, sassy energy.
  • @metalfoot  2 weeks
    Very nice lyrics!  There are indeed necessary luxuries...
  • @jessica14 3 weeks
    I am that girl that makes a connection between coffee beans and a mirror in the bathroom. It's has the finger on the pulse of the life-style of modern day women. I like this 
  • @cts  3 weeks
    I'm probably THAT person who isn't making the connection between the coffee beans and a mirror in the bathroom. I mean, I think I know, but I have a feeling I'm missing. Still - this is a solid girl power anthem.
  • @marvsmooth  3 weeks
    A nice empowered woman song there Chagall 

    Great writing, and it would make a fabulous song when set to music I'm sure.
  • @kc5 3 weeks
    Sassy! Whoa, does this song have some sass!
  • @ryuu 3 weeks
    You're so speaking from my soul!
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Scraping By And Hanging On (FAWM 2016)

Scraping By And Hanging On
Chagall
FAWM 2016

Yes many people love country music. I detest fake country music, where people put on a fake twang to sound authentic when they've never been near a horse ranch. And although I have been near a horse I'm totally a city girl born and raised so I feel I can't really do country justice like the real country stars - Willie, Johnny, Dolly and more locally Uncle Herb and friends.

Liner Notes

Oh ugh I just wrote a country song.

Lyrics

It's six oclock in the morning
and I hope my cheque has come
because I really want a coffee
and this uncertainty to be done

It's a hard life living paycheck to paycheck
Some days I wish I wasn't strong
But I'm still here to thank the Lord
scraping by and hanging on

The lights are still on here at my place
Thinking of you I never can sleep
Between a rock and a bankruptcy
Flashbacks and fantasies

It's a hard life living paycheck to paycheck
Some days I wish I wasn't strong
But I'm still here to thank the Lord
scraping by and hanging on

Comments



  • @johnstaples  1 week
    Well, as a writer of country songs, I like it! Why "ugh"?  Nice hook and that chorus would be easy to sing I think! Maybe a little pedal steel and a fiddle and this would be good to go! I really like this "Between a rock and a bankruptcy"! Nice work!
  • @kc5 2 weeks
    Oh wow! I think your lyrics will resonate with much of the lower middle class. I see lots of comments that this would be a good country song. That may be, but I see McCartney-sounding rock potential in this one as well.
  • @andygetch  2 weeks
    Could work as blues, rock or even alternative
  • @metalfoot  2 weeks
    Hey, nothing wrong with a little country song!  And this is nicely constructed. Will you be recording it?
  • @jessica14 3 weeks
    Those are great lyrics, very honest and true. Would be great to put them to music  Thanks for sharing!
  • @marvsmooth  3 weeks
    Another great piece of upbeat writing Chagall 

    That is has great country song potential!
  • @popmythology  3 weeks
    Yesss, Chagall writes a country song! Scraping by and hanging on is certainly the name of the game, isn't it? It didn't occur to me as I read but I saw the comment below and now agree that an upbeat country tune would actually wed well to the somewhat downbeat lyrics.
  • @ryuu 3 weeks
    I feel this. Upbeat country music would be just the perfect juxtaposition for the slightly angsty lyrics; I'd be thrilled to hear that 
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Tinder (FAWM 2016)

Tinder

Chagall
FAWM 2016

Liner Notes

Hmm. Interesting.

Lyrics

Every day I feel pain I remember nothing's the same
Every breath too much stress you've made it all a mess

Are you a demon?
Dark eyes
Dark hair
A ready smile
Takes my air

You may as well be agent orange
Or iron and a match
Cause I'm dying inside
A fact you didn't catch

You may as well be kryptonite
Or flint and tinder
Cause I'm going up in flames
A sanctified sinner

It was nothing to you but who am I stained with rue
It was true love to me but it seems I must be free

Are you a demon?
Your hands
Your touch
Awkward laugh
Means too much

You may as well be kryptonite
Or flint and tinder
Cause I'm going up in flames
A sanctified sinner

You may as well be agent orange
Or iron and a match
Cause I'm dying inside
A fact you didn't catch

Or did you

Gotta stay strong
Gotta stay strong
Stay alive stay alive
Don't ask you to
Stay

Comments


  • @metalfoot  2 weeks
    Powerful lyrical effect to these words. Curious to see what sort of musical magic you might make!
  • @electrocelte 3 weeks
    Nice... wrote a song called "Lady is Kryptonite"... it's out there...somewhere...
  • @jessica14 3 weeks
    Very intensense and beautiful lyrics! Would be great to put this to music... Great job!
  • @marvsmooth  3 weeks
    I think there are bits of a few heroes in here!
  • @kirrivath  3 weeks
    Gonna pull a Taylor Swift and not say who this is about. Maybe more than one guy. Just to confuse things. ^-^ @popmythology
  • @popmythology  3 weeks
    Great lyrics! Because of the title, at first I thought this song was somehow related to that Tinder dating app, lol. It's definitely a bit abstract as a superhero song, as you were saying, but I can see how a former significant other (if I'm right that that's what this is about) could have been a kind of kryptonite to your Supergirl.
  • @cts  3 weeks
    I've read this a few times and I kept trying to determine if there was a specific super hero you were alluding to. I thought it might be the Ghost Rider, but after read #4, it became clear to me this write is much bigger than that. Great work here!
  • @marvsmooth  3 weeks
    Ooh, I really like the writing here so much.

    There is a definite rhythm to the writing here, and I really want to hear this set to music.

    Fabulous writing!
  • @ladycarolynhyde 3 weeks
    Wow girl, love the depth of the lyrics, and, to me at least, the imagery of you as a superhero and the possible thought processes they think, the feelings they feel because they have such an important and often thankless job. Totally captures what it's like. Can also hear ominous music but with a shred of hope stitched through it because of this passage "gotta stay strong gotta stay strong, stay alive stay alive, don't ask you to stay." that is so powerful. love the duality. great job!
  • @nadia 3 weeks
    wow, i want to hear this with music! you have some really great imagery here and i love your repetition of "you may as well be..." great effort--now put it to some rocking music!!!
  • @nancyrost  3 weeks
    "Sanctified sinner" is a wonderful alliterative paradox, very catchy. I can hear the rhythm in these words, and it rocks.
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Wonder and Stars (FAWM 2016)

Wonder and Stars

Chagall Sierra & Bonita Storm Chavez
FAWM 2016

Written in response to the death of David Bowie and quite a few other inspiring musicians who've left us lately.

Liner Notes

Started pre-FAWM with a couple of fragments. One was in response to the death of Bowie and the other, written by a Facebook friend a few months ago and placed into my fragments file.

"See the stardust falling down
See the dark side of the moon
See the signs of life on other planets
You were taken too soon

Once I was a child staring in open wonder"
My fragment

"We are here to feel
We are here to heal"
by Bonita Storm Chavez

Combined that with a dream and finally sat down to take a write.

Lyrics

Once I was a child staring in open wonder
Upon the fields of stars that filled my sight
Tall pine trees whispered thunder
Pebbles scattered like memories

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

Walk the dark side of the moon
See the signs of life extraterrestrial
Are you coming back soon
You were taken you are gone

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

See the stardust falling down
Dream the ghosts beside us floating
This is seeded you have sown
In the river never twice

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

All the stars are falling from the sky
And I never had the chance to touch them
Haven't had the chance to fly
You're taking a piece of my heart with you

Comments

  • @reggiestyte 1 week
    Awesome tribute. "Awesome" for imagery, that is. Nice contrast of humanity & humility to end the chorus. Love the line "tall pine trees whispered thunder". (I typed that before reading other comments & still love it) Nice work! I highly encourage you to develop some melody for this. 
  • @kirrivath  4 weeks
    Hmm @tsunamidaily you're somewhat right about the pine trees. Evergreen is too rushed though, especially as whispered is already rushed.
  • @tsunamidaily 5 weeks
    it flows. the first verse gets me out of the flow with the third line being short. the ending line is fine short. i hear a missing anapest at the beginning of the third line, like "evergreen"-- "evergreen pine trees whispered thunder," though i would not presume that is correct or that there is a problem once fitted to the intended music. the rest just flows so well that that one line stands out to me, i guess. i like how you have the rhymes on the first and third lines in parts instead of the usual 2 and 4. it really gives it a different feel. i agree that "other planets" will sing much better than "extraterrestrial." it is simply an ungodly word. good job. let me know if it gets demoed.
  • @ladycarolynhyde 6 weeks
    The is amazing, I would love to help you set this to music anytime you like. Seriously hit home for me.
  • @mojosarmy 6 weeks
    Well done!
  • @darcistrutt  6 weeks
    Pretty lyric. I was struck with the fact scientists teach we are all made of star stuff. So that starlight does truly illuminate and mark our frail humanity.
  • @tunecat 6 weeks
    Yeah.. that seems really cool..
  • @tawny249 6 weeks
    Hi, this is very pretty. I like the sentiment and the phrasing. My only suggestion, oddly enough, is that your original "signs of life on other planets" flows better as a song lyric than "extraterrestrial." The word doesn't lend itself to singing in general. : P If you have a special plan for it, ignore me, but otherwise you might consider switching it back. Everything else is very cool as is. Looking forward to music.
  • @donna  6 weeks
    Absolutely lovely, Chagall.  Such tender imagery. I love the repetition.
  • @popmythology  6 weeks
    This is very beautiful, Chagall, a moving tribute. With music and your voice, it could be wondrous.
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