Tag: ballads

Just screwing around with song titles and concepts. This one is pretty good. Just like telling stories in verse. That’s all that’s going on. It’s relaxing.

Ask Me Anything
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

we’re all alone in this world
don’t know what I’m going to do
moan all you like but in the end
life can give you a twirl
so I say to fate with a wink

ask me anything

maybe you’re the one
I tell you and smirk
is it possible you’re my love
a white dove ready to coo
what ever am I going to do

don’t you fret at all
I’m ready to take the plunge
ready to open the door to our first date
but you’ve got to stop waiting
get off your ass and ask

ask me anything
let the questions flow
from your tongue to my mind
ask me anything
ask me anything

[bridge]
let me answer all your questions
ease all your fears
I’ll get you closer to
everything you hold dear

what is there to worry about
once you ask me anything
I’ll say yes
maybe tonight
we’ll get undressed

ask me anything
let the questions flow
from your tongue to my mind
ask me anything
ask me anything

This is just relaxing. If I was all that serious about this I wouldn’t be publishing it on this dumb blog and I would spend more than 15 minutes writing it. But it is fun to see if I can tell a story in verse.

Whose Side Are You On
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

I look at your eyes
think of you between my thighs
wonder where your mind is
are you mine or someone else’s
how would I know if it’s all lie
I think and sigh

whose side are you on
I need to know
whose side are you on
I moan and moan

let me know the truth
I need the facts
your lies cut like glass
please be mine totally
devoted as can be

whose side are you on
I need to know
whose side are you on
I moan and moan

[bridge]
I want to believe you
but it’s tough
I just might leave you
if you don’t shoot straight
it’s beginning to get late

whose side are you on
I need to know
whose side are you on
I moan and moan
whose side are you on
I need to know
whose side are you on
I moan and moan

Given that it’s difficult to write about anything political directly, this brings up the issue of open borders, but in the context of a romance gone bad.

Open Borders
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

look at me from across the table
said you’d always call me baby
but those times are over
now I just want open borders

open borders
let them free
open borders
why can’t you see the need
the need for
open borders

when we were young it was so simple
you held my hand in the promised land
we played fools who knew the rules
didn’t think to shut things down
we were such clowns

open borders
let them free
open borders
why can’t you see the need
the need for
open borders

[bridge]
when will others see
what I see
that our love was meant to be
but now we just flee
to our closed borders

open borders
why is this a problem
open borders
let me in
let me in
let me in

Just screwing around. In the mood to write lyrics. No one listens to me. This is just relaxing.

Postcards To Voters
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

the world is turning on its axis
we all want to be famous
twirl around and let me see
your claim to fame, baby

postcards to voters
is what we need
postcards to voters
oh say can you see

the nation is on its knees
worried about the state it’s in
leave the debate to the mavens
I say let’s roll

don’t blame me if we’re screwed
I know what to do you fool
walk as quick as can be
once the polls open my friend

postcards to voters
is what we need
postcards to voters
oh say can you see

[bridge]
there’s hope this fall
if we have the gall
to install a new government
to take care of it all

see you at the polls
see you at the polls
see you at the polls
see you at the polls

This is just me screwing around. I’m trying to go for a “What if Radiohead went really obviously political” vibe to these lyrics. But I’m just relaxing writing lyrics at this point.

New Model Army
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

the end seems near oh dear
but we can hear the screams
the children pulled away at night
what we need is a

new model army
you heard me right
new model army
is coming to save us alright

when the coast is clear
we’ll know when to yell
there’s nothing but rage
to hold us over it seems

what will you say
when they come to take you away
are you afraid of your fate
the footsteps in the night
telling you of your plight

new model army
you heard me right
new model army
is coming to save us alright

[bridge]
we’ll be free soon
like it was before
if not you’re going to
hear us roar

new model army
you heard me right
new model army
is coming to save us alright

new model army
new model army
new model army
new model army

Just in the mood to write lyrics. These are self-evident as to what they’re about.

We’re Better Than This
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

we’re better than this my friend
we have to be I beg and beg
when will it end I struggle to understand
we’re better than this my friend

children alone
torn from their parents
how can this be condoned
but there it is on my tv
to be shown to all
who has the gall

we’re better than this my friend
we have to be I beg and beg
when will it end I struggle to understand
we’re better than this my friend

how did this come to be
children torn from their parents
as they run from danger
just begging to be free
who have we become

we’re better than this my friend
we have to be I beg and beg
when will it end I struggle to understand
we’re better than this my friend

[bridge]
soon this will end
at last that’s my cry
we can’t keep this up
this is not alright
need some respite

we’re better than this my friend
we have to be I beg and beg
when will it end I struggle to understand
we’re better than this my friend

These lyrics are pretty self-evident. They’re about the children torn from their parents at the border by the government and make an allusion to Melania Trump’s “I don’t really care,  do you u?” coat.

I Do Care (Don’t You?)
Lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

I see their faces so far away
feel their cries in my soul
don’t know how this happened
ask the man above what’s the rub
this has to change

I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)

how did we get here I exclaim
while we’re fighting over who’s to blame
children wail in pain
we are so much better than this
wish we could end this right away

I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)

[bridge]
when this is over
we’ll still be sad
but we’ll be glad
it’s done
the children have been reunited
at last

I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)
I do care
(don’t you?)