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‘A Room That Once Was:’ #lyrics to a #pop #rock #ballad


I know something about the power of grief. What I don’t know is anything about how to put words to music. I know the words part, but how to fit words to music is something I’m oblivious about. I would buy a guitar and learn, but I’ve decided that photography will be my second creative “track.” Anyway, the photos of grief that Anna Marie Tendler is producing in despair over her recent divorce is something I can related to. The late Annie Shapiro went through something of a divorce because of ROKon Magazine and it took me – gulp — a lot longer than I would like to admit for me to get over it. Anyway, the title of these lyrics comes from the photo I’ve linked to.

A Room That Once Was
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

this is a room that was once a home
it filled our hearts with hope
we believed it was for a dream
but it was just a nightmare
it was all a lie
you looked me in the face
told me you would never leave

I believed you I did
now I’m at a loss to what happens next
I turn the light on to this room
we christened its hardwood floor
thinking we might make a baby

a room that once was a home
but is just a hole
a hole in my heart
a room that once was (a home)
a room that once was (a home)
a room that once was (a home)

(bridge)
I try to read in the room
really I do
but dread is too powerful for me to
so I don’t know what to do
maybe you can tell me
in your new enlightment
you’re going to be a father
I hear
oh dear
all I have is

a room that once was
a room that once was
a room that once was
a room that once was

‘anne boleyn:’ #Pop #Rock #Ballad #Lyrics


The pictures like the one above that Anna Marie Tendler is producing on her Instagram account are just heart wrenching. But, also, for me, at least, inspiring. I can’t sleep at the moment, so here’s another bit of would-be music inspired by one of her grief photos caused by her divorce.

anne boleyn
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

off with her head
they said and then she was dead
but to any woman who loves too much
and finds herself on the block
the name Anne Boleyn resonates
as the tears become a necklace

whatever you do
whatever you say
just don’t call me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn

women know what they know
Anne Boleyn did not know her place
and she paid a heavy price
her mind was in the right place
but her man’s hands were somewhere else
other than her body late at night
someone else got that right
much to Anne Bolyen’s fright

you could say I’m the same
nothing new, is under the sun
we thought we had something forever
it was just a fever
so whatever you do
don’t call me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn

‘Trigger Warning:’ Pop-Rock #Lyrics



I have no idea what I’m doing. But I’m the mood for the quick-hit of creativity that comes with randomly writing lyrics to songs that will never, ever be produced.

Trigger Warning
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

when I touch your skin late at night
I can feel the heat of your skin
how you make me leer
knowing what you’re going to do
but the next morning you’re gone
leaving me thinking you should come
come with a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

I’m simple
not very complex
but you make me hot
whenever we neck
but you don’t have
to call me your pet
for me to get drenched in sweat
cause you need a trigger warning

people tell me you’re a hired gun
maybe too full of yourself
you’re obviously always loaded
but I’ll drink to that
I just wish you would stay for breakfast
so I wouldn’t wake up to a cold bed
that feels as hot as muzzled just used
’cause you need a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

(bridge)
you’ve unloaded your love
into my heart
capped me one two three
but I’d pull you again
without warning
if you’d just stay when I need you
in the morning

until then I’m slapping a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

on you
on you
on you

‘Storm The Capitol:’ #Lyrics To A Fiona Apple-like Pop Song


I’m just screwing around with this. I’m in a writing mood. This is inspired by Fiona Apple’s “Fetch The Bolt Cutters.’ Again, as always, I have no idea what I’m going. But it’s relaxing to vent by telling a story in as few as words as possible with the idea that someone, somewhere might actually produce these lyrics. (Not that they will.)

Storm The Capitol
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

whenever I’m in pain
and I want to be lame
I look to the city on the hill
and think
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

I’m not going to say
that it’s my scene
to vi-o-len-tly stake my claim
but who am I to say
what I may do in a bad mood
I might just
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

people say I’m insane
that I’m better off at a rave
but not neeed to shame me
I have a shamon to tell me
which way is north
even if it’s south
…or west.

(bridge)
I’ll rush down the steps
or maybe given a hand on my
once I’ve proven my point
that I’m an idiot
with no plan or shame
just a little too much will

but don’t you fret
I’ll be back one day to
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

Ode To Anna Marie Tendler: ‘A Constant Companion’ — #Lyrics To A Breakup Song

I know absolutely nothing about music, but I can write. Or, at least, I like to think I can. So, I saw this picture of Anna Marie Tendler and was inspired to write lyrics from it. Or, at least, a poem that’s meant to be sung to music. But I only wrote this in about five minutes, so someone who actually knows what they’re doing would have to do something with it. But it’s inspired by Damien Rice’s The Blower’s Daughter. That’s the vibe I’m looking for with it.

A Constant Companion
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
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it was all an act
and that’s a fact
our love is gone
and will never come back
but for a while you were a
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion

I used to adore you
now you’re gone with a roar
never to return as it is foretold
but what can I say that hasn’t been said
a thousand times in my head
you were

a constant companion
by my side
by my side
now the darkness has taken your place
I live in disgrace
with another
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion

(bridge)
I’m alone with my fears
alone with my nightmares
I hold my hands late at night
thinking it’s you by my side
but my fingers I feel are my own

I can’t forget that you once were my
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant
companion
constant
companion

‘Gawker’ — #Lyrics To A #Pop #Rock #Song

Just screwing around. This is meant to be the same vibe as Phoebe Bridgers.

Gawker
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
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I’m just a gawker
that’s right don’t do much
in my own right
but sit back and gawk
as time walks on by
don’t do much but gawk

I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker

when you’re a gawker like me
people don’t just stare they flee
don’t know what to do or say
with someone who stands and mopes
at the fate that life has wrote

I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker

(bridge)
I wish action was my name
wish I was involved in the world
and yet that would be too much
for my poor old heart to take
so I just gawk

I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker
I’m just a gawker

‘Sucker’ — #lyrics To A #Pop #Rock #Song


I’m just screwing around with telling stories in the form of lyrics because I’m drunk enough not to care that these words will never, ever become a song anyone sings. I just need to vent. Enjoy.
Sucker
Lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
please give credit if you produce or perform

I’m so drunk
that I need another look
maybe I’m a sucker
but I know you’re a looker
you fill my sight
with dreams of delight.
you can just call me a sucker
sucker
sucker
sucker

I try to tell you I love you
but you won’t even hold me
I look around with despair
wondering if you’ll ever be near
but I’m just a sucker
the type that you think is a fool
but we all know I rule
I may be drunk
but I’m no
sucker
sucker
sucker
sucker

(bridge)
swallow what you can
cause you know I’m your man
just give me a op-or-tun-ity
to show you my style
it will drive you wild
just don’t call me a

sucker
sucker
sucker
sucker
sucker

‘Canceled’ — #Lyrics To A Pop Song


This is another ridiculous attempt at lyrics. But I’m just relaxing before I throw myself back into the novel tomorrow. It’s fun to try to tell a story with as few as words as possible using the conventions of a pop song.
Canceled
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
please give credit if you produce or perform

where to begin
when did you make my heart swim
I know how it ended though
it was when you canceled our love
one night on the phone

don’t you sweat
I’ll never forget the way I felt
when you canceled the series
in my mind of you and me so sublime
it’s the culture I’m afraid
for people me to get
canceled
canceled
canceled

but you’ll renew our vows
I know that for sure
it might be queer for me to say aloud
yet that’s just the way I am
you’re going to be mine again
no doubt about it
I will no longer be
canceled
canceled
canceled

(bridge)
renew our love is all I ask
bring it back from the past
it will be a gas
I have hope still
that we’ll enjoy its thrill

I just don’t want to be
canceled
canceled
canceled

‘Read Your Mind’ — Lyrics To A Pop Song


The idea of me successfully writing lyrics to a pop song is totally absurd at the moment– to do it right would require me learning how to play (at least) guitar and also a lot of hard work studying the marketplace and how to set words to music. But, lulz, I just want to vent some creative energy writing lyrics that will never, ever be turned into a song.
Read Your Mind
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

don’t know if you’ll hear
but here I am about to cry
waiting for your sigh from afar
I always used to say
I could read your mind

maybe you can read mind
maybe you can read mind
maybe you can read mind

you came and went like a ship
we crashed into each other
and that was it
that was it
now I’m alone like before
wish you could hear me roar

maybe you can read my mind
maybe you can read my mind
maybe you can read my mind

(bridge)
if you were talking still
you could lay your head
on my chest
we could talk about anything
I guess

Or maybe you could read my mind
maybe you could read my mind
maybe you could read my mind

‘Shadow Banned’ — #Lyrics To A Pop-Rock Song


Phoebe Bridgers in “Kyoto” is sooooo close to what I think of as “Rona Rock.” In fact, all that would need to happen is Miley Cyrus and Phoebe Bridgers mix and match whatever it is they’re doing right now and you would have “Rona Rock.” You would have pop rock. You would have music with a beat that you can dance to. Sadly, this will never happen. Fuck. But, anyway, here’s a quick big of doggerel from me.

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

no one wants to read my shit anyway
but here I am cooling my heels
seeking cheap thrills
waning days are afoot
for my relvanance
’cause I’ve been

shadow banned
shadow banned
shadow banned

if you’re not careful
you’ll be taken off the platform
with no where to squeal
people don’t believe it’s true
but it is
one day they’ll see
when they’re

shadow banned
shadow banned
shadow banned

bridge
let the sun in
make things bright
we’ll scale the hights
to something out of sight
we’re done in
’cause of our sin

shadow banned
shadow banned
shadow banned