SpinTunes 21 Round 4

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1.	Tunes By LJ - Watermelon 01:53	lyrics
Out there in the haze A million miles away Sunlight grows brighter and bold Underneath the roads Buildings fade to gold Legends from fighters of old Those who know Bow their heads to the ground Solemnly take hope Alone Point your face at the sky Pray it doesn't fall to pieces Deep inside the maze A billion lives to save Candlelight flickering glow Just outside the lines Water turns to wine Fire is under control Start the show Burning lights falling down Suddenly explode Below Only faith left to die Go get right with God
2.	Stacking Theory - Goodbye Baby 02:48	lyrics
this is not a love song i’ve given that away instead I'm trying to understand the hurt behind the way I feel it's so bad sick of all the swan songs they're leading me astray my silver throat's a fucking joke a voice with nothing left you say “goodbye” sunlight calling through the window but we won't get up because we've dropped any hope for repair lost time falling ever over we're a hopeless cause shut the open door the rope's tied short shorter than the fall holding on to one long minute that's replayed as life unfolds before our eyes collapsing like a crashing wave baby
3.	The Dutch Widows - Finish On A High 03:58	lyrics
It’s an irresistible slide Slowly reaching full decline Motor functions elide Spongy brained yet alive Stumble through lonely nights Words no longer comply Tripping tongue mangles rhymes Teeth shattering vibes Lips gripping sounds just to find Wordless noises fade to die Hands don’t grip like they used to do Broken bones misshapen, yellow, ugly, bruised Eyes spy a photo, colour senses collide at first sight Gravity diminishes height Taller aged four to five Bulk shrinking to size Boredom stretches out time Impatience holding back the tide Small wins fall between the widening cracks Accumulate near the floor now the sweeping lacks Tipping scales balance falling off the shelf to one side See the signs that were never there Partly hidden by the gorgeous hair Seek a way to force a circle square Raise a fist into the air We are capable and able theoretically Selecting an end point secretly carefully Inflatable mattress aside Silence dogs me everywhere Grief’s an ancient’s despair Future planning’s not my affair Long to be most anywhere else You wouldn’t let an animal suffer distress Offer treatment stop the suffering embrace the abyss Death comes too gradual to the wretched, the old, the benign Push these thoughts across a sleepless night Entertaining in cold blinking light Where are people who pretend to care To make amends for your thoughtless prayer The ending I want selfishly, choosing free Finish on a high
4.	Hot Pink Halo - Mimeograph 03:00	lyrics
Fill in the blanks so the sentences Start to make sense They tell a tale that’s Already been told Repeatedly You are a ditto machine A lilac ghost Dissolving those dreams Your scent hangs on the air Bittersweet for years Connect the dots maybe you’ll see The bigger picture Starting to emerge The whole thing built upon What happened earlier I am a mimeograph A darker shade Moving through masks Repeating my mistakes Until the ink runs clear Twin scenes drawn together But they’re not the same Try to find the words Before it is too late One day all that Will be left are Overlapping rounded shapes We were a moment undone Two phantom notes Exposed to the sun Our story softly fades As each line disappears
5.	GFS - Belated Eulogy (SHADOW) 02:15	lyrics
Dear Mrs Fant, sometimes called Mommy Dearest on this day it was your funeral last year I couldn’t speak ill of the dead I’m so sorry the service was brief for the few people there constant judgement never a thought to be kind finding with time that my anger’s receding morphing to pity to useless regrets no one could make her see outside herself oh she died before anyone said temper triggered without a safe place to hide always screaming demeaning until the good was goodbye discovered when you joined the dearly departed departure’s leave room something new will arrive light going dark lets another grow brighter and death can bring someone to life Arrrrrggghhhhhhh
6.	Jim Tyrrell - A Word (SHADOW) 03:24	lyrics
A cardinal is singing just outside the window pane Unseen crows are offering a murderous refrain High above America’s demented retail dream where Christmastime increasingly resembles Halloween Each marquee proclaims potential economic bliss Songbirds make their nests, completely unaware of this Surely such a grievous opportunity to miss All life’s desire set afire by shopping’s sacred kiss Love affairs with billionaires who don’t know how to stop Lacking moral compasses but heading toward the top Uncontrolled desires destroying undeveloped woods Building malls designed to fall, closing up for good Leaving empty storefronts, gaudy desecrated tombs Eventually refashioned into multipurpose rooms Accommodating congregating drunk conventioneers Collecting plastic relics from diminishing careers Or Funerals as hipsters suffer first world problem deaths Choking on pistachios, vaping final breaths Suspendered and mustachioed, a corpse in perfect health Wondering did he ever even once look like himself Evening drapes its sheet over our animal parade Bedside clocks serve summons to the promises they made sometime long after midnight a voicemail goes unheard: “Report to Human Resources - we hope to have a word.”
7.	Micah Sommersmith - Indistinguishable (SHADOW) 02:16	lyrics
Muffled murmurs behind bolted doors Ghostly groans down darkened corridors Constant creaking Sounds like speaking All of it Unintelligible Letters layered onto weathered walls Chambers covered up with spider scrawls At every turning Some written warning Each message Indecipherable A figure follows furtively Footsteps faintly fall I finally find the fortitude to face yon friend or foe His arm My wrist Those fingers This fist That breath in these lungs One word on two tongues Him and me Indistinguishable
8.	Siebass - Shin Spoons (SHADOW) 02:46	lyrics
Already know, but can't put your finger down - Tunes by LJ Tip of a tongue, almost out sung seems to linger around Talking 'bout death, or some other threat, - Jim Tyrell pained-filled hearts grown old, slowing cold News surprising, realizing, we're strung together, though we seem so far apart - GFS Missing winter glove, Unrequited love - Panacotta Futures' inky canvas, certain once gone past, the present's a gift not meant to last - Sober I eat word salad after tea, balsalmic's way too vinegary, tomatoes hide a silent E - Phlub Baby, Maybe, Rabies, Save me, crazy, navy, lazy, lady - Stacking Theory Reflecting thoughts, unravelling mind water bottles roll off the drop - Mandrake F*CK - Nightingale's fiddle a couch for a grouch in a crouch with a pouch, it's ouch when you slouch she can vouch - Jon Porobil SSSS, SSSS, Spintunes ~ -HPH SSSS, SSSS Spinned Moods.... SSSS, SSSS Skinned Loons SSSS, SSSS, Shin Spoons
9.	▷ - Collage of Fragmented Thoughts that Might Mean Nothing (SHADOW) 07:05	lyrics
[steve 1] table. chair. book. reading. reminded... school. learning. history. false. thinking... [drop 1] ... [steve 2] train. sit. travel. crowded. its like... party. me. not there. want home. though... i... [drop 2] ... [bridge ig? Honestly doesn’t sound right] out. time. at. where? sleeping. broken. no. down. for. why? when... dreaming about... [drop 3] You. we are nothing but fragmented thoughts. shattered pieces of glass in memory. scattered parts from my mind thrown to the wind. [im gonna call this a Fallout, the aftermath of a chorus, lets make this a thing!] a collage. picture frame. forever stained. without paint. fractured fleeting dreams. forgotten names, cherished pain. [outro] remember rain recalling breeze please never change

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Once Is Enough: Write and record a song with lyrics. If a word appears in your lyrics, it may not be repeated in your lyrics. Each word in your song may only be used once.

Exceptions are granted for the following words, which are the only words that may be repeated: a, an, are, is, the, to, was, were.

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released October 24, 2023

Cover art by Matt "Shoobs" Schubbe.

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