Broken Bonds, But Bonds Still

Dreamy shoegaze intro with layered guitars, synth and fretless bassline, and snare-heavy drums

Verse 1 (Dreamy shoegaze guitars, ethereal vocals that hang back in the mix a la My Bloody Valentine and softer snare-heavy drums)

Melted butter on my lips, a lifetime on those hips

Light, gentle tongue slips, just as my heart flips

Passion fascination fashion, my lips melt on butter

Chorus 1 (Aggressive post-punk/alt-rock sound, driving guitars, galloping bassline and pounding drums with more intense vocals)

Lips melt into hips, tongue slips, heart flips

Aggressive regressive fascination disassociation

Partnership Companionship Situationship

Verse 2 (Same as Verse 1)

Ship that sailed or sale-d away

Away your lips and hips, away your tongue and heart

My lips and hips left to decay, my tongue and heart thrown astray

Chrous 2 (Similar to Chorus 1 with the intensity ramped up)

Lips melt into hips, tongue slips, heart flips

Aggressive regressive fascination disassociation

Partnership Companionship Situationship

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Lips melt into hips, Tongue slips, heart flips

Passion fascination fashion, broken bonds but bonds still

Bridge (Continues the aggressive feel)

Captain My Captain of my own s-t-inking ship

Trust overboard, sinful overload, guilty Overloard

Captain of my own capsized icebergised ship

Passion (dissection)

fascination (frustration)

Faded Fashion

rejection no exception

Chorus 3 (Continues the aggressive feel of the bridge fading on the last line into the spoken word section)

Lips melt into hips, tongue slips, heart flips

Aggressive regressive fascination disassociation

Partnership Companionship Situationship

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Lips melt into hips, Tongue slips, heart flips

Passion fascination fashion, broken bonds but bonds still

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Passion (fascination) fashion,

Passion (dissection) fascination

Frustration (faded) fashion

Aggressive regressive

Fascination disassociation

Partnership Companionship Situationship

Spoken Word Breakdown (minimal piano, with just vocals)

even after all I've/we've been through - the blood, sweat, tears, pain, betrayal, sorrow and regrets

cold realities, hard truths and uncomfortable admissions of guilt

love tarnished, tainted and tattered, bonds beaten, bruised and broken

I still have hope

perhaps things will never be as they once were, perhaps that's a good thing

stars shine and die, the moon hides the sun for but a moment, love may lessen but can also blossom

ends usher new beginnings and with hope and love, nothing is ever truly lost

Chorus 4 (Dreamy shoegaze sound returns with less intense vocals, lighter uplifiting guitars, layered harmonies)

Lips melt into hips,

tongue slips, heart flips

Aggressive (regressive)

fascination (reunification)

Partnership Companionship Situationship

Lips melt, tongue slips, my heart flips

Passion fascination fashion, broken bonds, bonds still

Broken bonds, bonds still the bonds that hold us two

give us hope

hope for sailing again, without sale-ing out

Outro (Slow, whispered final lines with just piano with a soft fade out)

fashion

passion

fascination

reconciliation

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with hope and love, nothing is ever truly lost

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Given how much I love music (along with reading, writing and film, it's my main passion and perhaps the one I've had the longest) and can in my head picture how imaginery songs might sound, it's a shame I've never been disciplined enough to actually lock down learning an instrument to a reasonable playing level or at least realised I was a poet (the curse of the Accidental Poet coming out to play late in life), but for this challenge, to push myself, I've given it a shot. To help imagine how the music might sound with the words, I've given notes for each section of the song.

This is my entry for the Harmonic Verses Challenge. Well, my first entry at least.

The lyrics are based on two poems: