Love's NOT a GAME (LNG)

I'm an amateur songwriter/lyricist. Enjoy playing guitar and recently started making rough recordings of some of my songs I've written.

Love, love, love Broadway musicals:
anything by JRB (last five years, songs for a new world, parade), Into the Woods (Sondheim is a Genius...named my dog after him, although Ex-wife has him now....**sob, sob**)
, Wicked, Thoroughly Modern Mille, Spamalot, UrineTown, Miss Saigon, Les Mis (of course)....more later.

favorite bands:
Paramore!!!! Jimmy Eat World, Kasey Chambers, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, bon jovi, matchbox 20, goo goo dolls, Daughtry, three days grace, keith urban, little big town, carrie underwood, Too many pop-country groups/singers to count, all american rejects, the killers, my chemical romance, fallout boy...

Also, love lots of Standards from the Golden Age, like Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald. 40's swing....too many music loves to list. Anything except rap and hip-hop, pretty much.

just one of my MANY lyrics:

You'll Cry (original lyric)

you're looking foward to the future
you're looking forward to forever
you closed your mind
put it all behind -the past is in the past
it's sealed away -but one day-
it'll come rushin back (and then...)

ch:
...you'll cry
youll wonder why - you didn't try a little harder
(cuz you turned your) back on the one
who knows you better than yourself

You'll cry
and you'll question your own mind
'cuz you can't justify
-all the love you left behind..

2.
I know you had your reasons
you made a list of pro's and con's
(every single right & wrong)
now they're locked away
outta sight-outta mind, with our old photographs
cuz if you spent one moment looking back
you'd smile , and then...

ch:
you'll cry
youll wonder why - you didn't try a little harder
(cuz you turned your) back on the one
who knows you better than yourself

You'll cry
and you'll question your own mind
'cuz you can't justify
-all the lovel you left behind..

br:
put a pretty face--on a florescent smile that's just a little cold
as you hide away--from the feelings that are closer than you know...
**but you're gonna know**

*scat/vocal improv*solo*

ba-da-da
ba-da da-nn-da
ba-da doo-nn-doo
ba-da na-na-na-na *etc* etc*
*etc*

ch:
yeah you'll cry...
repeat chorus*

(c) February 7, 2010 Benjamin B G Chapman

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