Song Ideas

Addendum 2025-04-11

Fair warning, I found this floating around in my digital hoarding and it appears to date back to at least 2014 and added to over time. I genuinely wonder what was going through my noggin.

Some parts I immediately recognise as being “inspired” by other songs, but then, everything is a remix

These Don’t Have to Be Things that the Songs Are About, They Could Be Said by Characters in the Songs

My get up and go has got up and gone

(something something kettle on, motivation, inspiration?)

So it’s 2am, my fingers hurt, I’ve got me a banjo and that bottle of jim aint as full as it used to be

Cool kids, aversion to applause

They’re so vain and yes, this song is about them

Pubs, takeaways and taxi companies

You never lose if you don’t keep score

How do I say goodbye/it’s always the good ones that have to die

Gonna have to google how I’m supposed to keep my hands off you

I don’t know what it was about her other than it was everything about her

You’ve just chosen a different flag to fly

Life is not a box of chocolates, it’s a box of sand

Even the good guys are wanking on cars

Sounds like blackboard fingernails

Using mainly spoons

Fading the screen

Heading off for battle, me and you against the world //metaphor about taking the stage, maybe link into post-apoc/zombies?zombies?//or turn it around, into the occupy thing, and it’s actually the 99% against the cocks//because war, war never changes, it’s always been us against them

Facebook likes wont pay my rent

This green unpleasant land

It doesn’t have to be a one or a zero

Short on money, short on time, long on ideas

How quickly would things change if the people in power were on minimum wage? But aren’t we the ones with the power?

You’re looking for a full moon (wolf man?) but I’m more of a crescent

My lack of completeness is fucking you up

This machine (like the gun/Woodie Guthrie reference) is killing US

A kiss from me is not a gift, it’s a warning

Sometimes it feels like I can’t do anything. So is that because I’m being selfish, or do I need to change the way I do things. Or what? Some combination of the above?

The words I speak today shall outlive me

We’ll all be dead soon, so just get on with it

If I get older I will be stronger, just like a burning flag

Coming back to work after a week off feels a bit like a space shuttle nosing in for reentry

And the ashes fall like burnt snow

Putting one foot in front of the other and pushing the world towards you

My luck it makes a late appearance

The fear that you’ve left it all too late

Here in 4:4 time I hear your heart

The grit-whoever you are-pure genius

For what they did they deserve to be a black spot on the ground

Watching Jamie Oliver and drinking wine til you puke

The face in the mirror is a lot older than the face in my head

Money

Horror movies

family

Tories

Trains/transport

If you’re not asking the right question, there is no correct answer

I’m a zero, you’re a one

I woke up this morning, I was dying of thirst

Reverse the charges to a better place

Fine like a parking ticket

How are we supposed to be behave ourselves when the government is stealing from us?

Fixie=human torpedo, sometimes with a dysfunctional guidance system

I’ve got whiskey on my breath and women on my mind

Oppression and harassment are a small price to pay to live in the land of the free

Facebook likes don’t pay the rent, claps and cheers….

Days fly by on pause, nothing’s changing, nothing’s happening

Another time, another place, I would’ve made you sit on my face