Here’s a song that my wife Kim wrote a few years back. I don’t know what melody she had in mind, I found her lyrics and chord changes and recorded it before asking her. Actually, I’ll post exactly what I found:

C          C
I dedicate all my nights
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To call your name, to know your face
C                 C
So where are you? Where'd you go?
Am            G
In my arms or in my
C            C
Rotting soul

C                  C
I'll carry you and that August day
Am                     G
In the back of my mind and to my
C               C
Swollen grave
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Where all the children sing so
C               C
Loud and brave

C                C
Who's gonna care when we all die?
Am                         G
When you've got the bullet in your brain?
C                C
Who's gonna stop and wonder why
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No one is saying "I'm so happy
C                C
To be alive"

C              C
And after they all say goodbye
Am               G
Who's gonna open the champagne and say
C                C
"Cheers to life! Cheers to love!
Am                         G
Here's to all those things I've been
C                  C
dreaming of."
Am                          G
Yes, here's to those things I'm
C                   C
Dreaming of.
Am         G
This is my ode to
C                    C
Life and love.
Am            G

You can hear what my version sounds like, or you can record your own and send it to me. I show you mine, you show me yours.

Loud and Brave

Kim wrote another song, actually recorded herself singing it, then made a video for it. You can find it here on her blog.

Also, I didn’t get any response for the last song I posted. I know the lyric says, “find love in the graveyard,” but I swear it’s not about anything morbid or disgusting.