Some notes on my song: I am not much of a James Bond fan, but I do have an idea what a Bond theme is supposed to sound like. I didn't listen to any of the actual Bond songs beforehand though so I wouldn't be too influenced by them and subconsciously plagiarize. My theme still sounds like I heard it ...

Nick Soma - Carte Blanche You used to feel So weak and small Empty and useless No power at all But there are things You now have learned And so today The tide has turned Now you got carte blanche You can do anything You got carte blanche Let this life take wing For better or worse Both blessing and...

Nick Soma - Rear Window featuring Cookie Blue Nick's lines in red , Cookie's lines in blue ; ending part sung by both in purple I remember it all, though you say otherwise I won't let you accuse me of telling lies I told you not to drink before we got to play But you had to get wasted anyway I was ...

Nick Soma - Chupacabra The Chupacabra is digging for scraps In my backyard again Where I buried the bones of the goat That he had for dinner yesterday Seems like he's hungry, I think I should buy Another one so he gets something to feast on tonight The stingy neighbors have locked all their goats a...

Some liner notes on my song: This time I wrote the lyric immediately on the day the challenge was posted, like I would write a poem, before I had any music, which is rare for me. The lyric is held in anapaestic tetrameter (da-da-DA times four), most commonly used in comic or absurd poems such as by ...

Regarding layered vocals and the like, I had a listen to the four examples provided by the judges. "Fell in Love with a Girl" and Brown Word's "Expert Opinion" indeed have only three tracks, one for the vocals plus two instruments. "Girl Anachronism" though has two vocal lines at times (such as in t...

Nick Soma - The Handbook When in need of instructions on how to go on, Consult the Handbook to guide you along. Step one, conjure up a magic well. (See page 90 for how to perform such a spell.) Step two, take a bone of a rabid dog, Seven adders' eggs and the legs of a bullfrog, Twenty-two grubs fro...

Thanks noma, I'm glad you enjoyed my ridiculous lyrics. My own personal opinion (as very much Not An Actual Linguist) about Chomsky is that his work has been vital to moving the field of linguistics forward, even if the details haven't always been borne out. My cousin is a research professor in chi...

BTW - Micah - as a linguist, let me express how much I hate that guy Chomsky. Not as a person, not for his political views, but for how he totally ruined my interest in everything syntax-related (I'm more of a semantics guy, and I love historical linguistics) with his bullshit theories I had to read...

That “nothing’s left when nothing’s right” also stood out to me as excellent. Good work! Thanks! I googled it expecting to see it was used several dozen times already, and was pleasantly surprised to find it might be somewhat original. As the saying goes, every once in awhile a blind squirrel finds...

I don't know if I can say that much about my song, but I'll try. Musically, I wanted to keep it simple and also make everything really bright and chimey. I'm very satisfied with the second guitar doing the arpeggios in the right channel, but I think the other one is perhaps a bit too crunchy. But wh...

Nick Soma - This Is Fine Well I have always been a pessimist And things are looking grim right now for me Money's running low, depression's knocking at the door Darkness is all that I can see The world is turning sadder, People getting madder And I am waiting for a sign Life changing for the better...

I think it was Matchy Matchy who already covered the obvious lyrical topic in 2018, round zero, "Trial By Fire." So I'll try to think up something else for my entry.

Nick Soma - Peak Misery Life keeps slowing down Yet time's running out Have you ever felt Like tied to a rock? Now I'm in this rut Can't seem to get out And what's it all about It don't matter much Take a walk, try to sleep Have a drink, feed the cat Sweep the floor, do some chores Have a cigarette...

Um... I got a little carried away with this one. If eight minute songs in odd time signatures with no vocals for the first two minutes and long-ass guitar solos are your thing, you'll probably enjoy this one. Lyric is suitably miserable, more so than my emo-type stuff of last year's Nur Ein. Also, I...

Nick Soma - Liberty Street Carefully planning for tomorrow Too much for you to bear Drowning in a sea of sorrow Cracks in the mask that you wear You can stand in the light, but you won't see Take a walk on Liberty Street, but you're not free You can walk anywhere, you're not free Adapting to a worl...

I'm in! First entry since last year's Nur Ein... I did try something new: recording the heaviest song I've ever done. Heaviness is usually not something I am trying to achieve in my songs, so not sure how it turned out. Guess it's kind of metal. Also, I used "Liberty Street" metaphorically in my lyr...

Nick Soma - No Memory I'm doing fine, I have no memory Of anything I've ever done Oh yeah, they cured me of my memory No one knows what I'll become Now I can be anyone For so many years, I lived In sorrow and fear, I was Constantly haunted by my memories But I was sold when by That guy I was told t...

I managed to finish my song just before the deadline, but it was close. It has a long-ass intro and outro, which I tried to shorten, but it ruined the mood. Also, I tried to add a guitar and harmony vocals, yet that also didn't seem to fit the mood. There is only one vocal track (apart from the samp...

Nick Soma - Color Me Gone The samples I used can be found here: https://youtu.be/3YcsB0iFUKA I remember still Though it's slowly fading now Sitting in the park In awkward silence If I had confessed My love to you that day, You would have laughed, I bet You sent me on a ride Of many ups and downs A ...

OK, so, to make things a little clearer about my song. This is a very personal lyric about a specific guy I know, so I guess some of the references are hard to get if you don't know him. Didn't think that would be a problem; Green Day, for example, did a lot of diss tracks in the 1990s where you wou...

Now this sounds like a cool challenge. Color me intrigued.


Color me, don't color me! Ready to be sampled