SOMESONGS 2024 Round 1 "View From the Bottom"

[Mr. White]

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[Caravan Ray]

View From the Bottom
caravan ray

Melanie is a doctor
Melanie had a plan
She's gonna specialise in prostate health
For very wealthy men

Melanie has the softest hands
And the sharpest business mind
A soothing voice and a pretty face
A bedside manner so kind

Lube that finger
Slip it in
Roll him over
And then begin

Melanie is a big success
Her patients come again and again
Every one of her examinations
Has a happy ending

Lube that finger
Slip it in
Roll him over
And then begin

[Mr. Blonde]

View From the Bottom - Glenn Case

There may be one advantage
When you're down on your luck
If you're at rock bottom
There's nowhere to go but up

There's only so much
That can be excused
There's more at stake
When you have something to lose

You climb, you rise
You claw your way up through the ranks
Yeah, you fought 'em
In time you fall, back where we all start
The view from the bottom

When you get where you're headed
Well, let's hope it has legs
There's contenders lining up with intentions
Of taking you down a few pegs

There's only so much
That can be excused
There's more at stake
When you have something to lose

You climb, you rise
You claw your way up through the ranks
Yeah, you fought 'em
In time you fall, back where we all start
The view from the bottom

You are not the first
And you won't be the last
To get a glimpse of the future
Just take a look at the past

You climb, you rise
You claw your way up through the ranks
Yeah, you fought 'em
In time you fall, back where we all start
The view from the bottom

You climb, you rise
You claw your way up through the ranks
Yeah, you fought 'em
In time you fall, back where we all start
The view from the bottom

[Mr. White]

View From the Bottom - Vom Vorton

the fire alarm is blaring but it’s going to be okay
we’ll drown it out with sunshine even though it’s a rainy day

we’re a long way from the top
but up there everything’s rotten
and if it should collapse
then there’s a pretty good view from the bottom

we’ve spent too long obeying the rules just to prove that we exist
let’s turn the alphabet upside down, dump the As at the foot of the list

[MicahSommer]

View from the Bottom
Micah Sommersmith

There is light shining somewhere above me,
There is somebody there who could love me.
There is sea breeze and salt air and open sky,
But here am I.

Musically, I was inspired by Baroque-era chorale preludes, in which a slow chorale is used as a cantus firmus, with a more elaborate, rhythmically dense melody above it. To meet the "turn it upside down" challenge, I placed the more elaborate melody underneath the chorale, played by the electric bass.

[Hoblit]

Don't Look Down - Hoblit

Don’t look down you said
Always look up instead
And never look away or turn your head
Keep your eye on the ball

And those were some words that I would always embrace
but all that ever did was get me hit in the face

Now joining the rats at a dog eat dog pace
your driving advice still rolls in that race

Don’t look down you said
Always look up instead
And never look away or turn your head
Keep your eyes on the road

But I could lose it all in one crashing downswing
and twisting all around by one tiny shoestring

From the view at the bottom of everything
where I hang you can still hear me sing

Don’t look down you said
Always look up instead
And never look away or turn your head
Keep your eye on the prize

Don’t look down you said
Always look up instead
And never look away or turn your head
Keep your eye on the ball

[Mr. Pink]

View From the Bottom - Add

Under the jagged sun
Across my face, fill up my lungs
Rising from the black
Falling slowly, flat on my back

Your voice is shaking
I watch you break into view

From the bottom of a well

A struggle in the rain
A rush of blood right to my brain
Nestled in the leaves
Only in light, only in dreams

My mind is running loose
And lightning comes into view

From the bottom of a well

You're a brand new face in hell
The view from the bottom of a well

The color shifts to blue
I'm breathing slowly and begging you
I hit the floor at last
In rocks and mud and broken glass

My spirit shaken loose
Before it blots out the view

From the bottom of a well
If you care, it's hard to tell

The view from the bottom of a well

[Mr. Orange]

View from the Bottom - Tomorrow

1.
I was the sun and you were the stars
Together on the mountaintop
Holding his hand as you pushed me off
Cuz I didn't shine on you enough
Well that's tough

Nearly buried myself in the overgrowth
Beneath the moon who took my place
I felt my light start to fade
Barely halted my descent
Start again

C.
I'll miss the view from up above
When I was beside her
But in this view from the bottom
What's ahead looks brighter

2.
Back up there it's freezing cold
The sky, shattered into shards
The way you thought you would prefer
You still want sunlight on your brow
Even now

All the times I tried to climb back up
You always sent me down again
There's no point to going home
And I already shine anew
Not for you

C.
I'll miss the view from up above
When I was beside her
But in this view from the bottom
What's ahead looks brighter

B.
You turned my world on its head
You can't keep my soul
You made your choice
Now get used to the cold

C.
I'll miss the view from up above
When I was beside her
But in this view from the bottom
What's ahead looks brighter

[Mr. Blonde]

View From the Bottom - The Idiot Kings

You know how easy it is to be down these days
When everything seems to be running away
When your view is this low
There’s no telling how high the future can go

Looking up…as the world goes by
Trying to find a single reason why
I keep repeating the same damned things
When I know the way reality stings
Claustrophobic hallway, Tunnel vision lord’s day, Boston-bred my smile’s from Galway
Let’s begin to improve us from within
Make changes that always should’ve been
Let out all the bad and only welcome good
And make sure we’ll only do the best we ever could

You know how easy it is to be down these days
When everything seems to be running away
When your view is this low
There’s no telling how high the future can go