So, in the spirit of, if I post here prematurely, maybe I'll summon up the courage to record the vocals ... it's short and it's dirty, and my (new!) bass guitar sounds surprisingly like a Rickenbacker.

Sent an update to fightmaster, hope that's the right place. If you send in an update with the silence properly trimmed off I can put that up. Yes, huge apologies. It was a balls-up but you can think of it as me being a pretentious dick if that's even less favourable :( Sorry everyone. tomdg feat rox...

Yes, huge apologies. It was a balls-up but you can think of it as me being a pretentious dick if that's even less favourable :( Sorry everyone. tomdg feat rox + wub : Is this track really 6:43? Are you trying to kill me? ... wait... is this track really 3:40ish with 3 mins of silence? Is this the la...

tomdg feat rox + wub I used to think tomorrow had a chance but some deceiver took her for a dance I thought that we could make good company But Hope and I were never meant to be You ask me why I throw my heart around To find someone who’ll never let me down To teach me that to trust is to get hurt T...

tomdg & wub feat very special guest rox. Accidentally met the accidental challenge using voice and synthetic organ.

Shutdown by tomdg Shut down No-one in town Just the sheep on the high street Memories Of golden days When we went where we wanted The things we chased before the plague don’t matter now The simple life we scorned sees us bunkered down My voice Is just like yours Truth is only an opinion Freedom At y...

um ... well ... yes. It's just over two minutes long. 2:14 long, and I this time I didn't record it in one take on my phone.

Whatever chord change that is under the title line "bent straight" it's tasty. It almost sounds major to minor but.. maybe major 7th or?... okay put me out of my misery, what is it? So the song's in E, and the chords go from an F#m to Am, so it's a 2 to a minor 4. The voicings on the chor...

It’s super interesting to me to hear how other people go about writing their lyrics. My approach is to think about the prompt for a while until I settle on an idea (in this case bending light > gravity > general relativity), then I choose a structure and write to it in no particular order. I'll gen...

Hate to disappoint but I/we (tomdg & wub) followed that exact structure too :( I just wrote it out rather more sparsely. Hugely grateful for all the comments here all Berkeley Social Scene : 13 You've got one of the "standard" structures I've seen (although that might be inaccurate as ...

Wub came up with a couple of good ideas for this. tomdg did something with them. optional challenge met out of expediency.

Bent Straight (tomdg & wub) Underneath the apple tree Stunted saplings never free to grow Never free to be Every day I hide from me Show them what they want to see The lies they believe But who am I Never answer, ask, or wonder why Try, so I try To show the world what it expects of me To laugh a...

The Dream Crusher - tomdg I had a dream of a world without borders I had a vision of life without walls In Berlin I saw how the future could be brighter Hope for tomorrow and love for us all But in 2016 that dream died We the people bought a lie And the men with the money and the suits and the ties ...

walk steady
steady on
on fire
fire storm
storm front
front page
page turn
turn off
off side
side show
show reel
reel in
in half
half full
full moon
moon walk
walk steady

tomdg & wub

Day of the Dead by tomdg and Wub Happy birthday Rowland If I can say that when you're dead I would have liked to go to see you but I was ignorant instead Till that day you blew my mind when I was walking home with the radio on But now you sleep alone I looked you up on FaceBook but you'd already bee...

Fwiw ... Hot Mess lyrics by Wub and tomdg Um ... maybe it could have been cooked a little longer maybe a bit less cinnamon The fillet steak was burned to an ember chewy and stringy, just listen to me Hot mess! why even bother? Hot mess! why don't you just solder? Hot mess! it's disgustin' Hot mess! ...

Three things struck me particularly in this one:

Billy's Little Trip: nice idea and lyrics;
Jacob Lynn: fantastically catchy chorus;
Narcaloungers: lovely voice but also a nice song.

Hard to choose just one ...

My "butterfly massacre" (tomdg) was also a response to the Iraq war (and the Afghanistan conflict, and the other things which followed 9/11): http://www.songfight.org/music/butterfly_massacre/tomdg_bm.mp3 The lyrics are still on ye olde lyric thread: http://www.songfight.net/forums/viewtop...

I'd suggest MC Paul Denyer's "Pickle Juice". It's still going around my head and I can't walk past a jar of pickles without being reminded of it.

Chicky Chicky – I like the ABA structure. Other than that, I can’t comment on this 2/10 Evil-E - Nice groove, but an even more 60’s feel would work really well. Odd gap in the middle, it feels like the song has stopped. 7/10 Glenn of Dust Pipe – the short lines of lyrics break up the verse t...

Far From Sucking
I Don't Want To Be Your Friend
Up All Night

I'm tempted to record my little boy crying (age 3 weeks) and enter it in all three categories ... but I'm not going to.

That's just stupid. @eclectic sp00ns, Congrats on the win. Steve Wish You Were Here IS the best song ever written, and the unimaginative nature of the chords actually makes the song better by focusing attention on the lyrics. I take the idea a bit further by making everything unimaginative in order...