Song Lyric Challenge

[skidmo_fic]

Edit: Challenge is closed. Assignments will be handed out during the first part of this week.


Okay, I think I've got this figured out.

So, this here's the sign-up post for the Song Lyric Challenge. You'll be assigned one line from a song, and you'll need to write a fic based on that line. The line does not need to appear in your fic, but there should be a very definite connection to the line. The minimum length for fics is 500 words and there is no upper limit. If you want to write an epic for this challenge, please do.

It looks like November 11th is the date that will work best for most people so that will be the deadline. Sign-ups will close September 30th, and you'll receive your assignments no later than October 4th. If you asked for an earlier deadline, you are more than welcome to post your fic before the deadline. I'll post the masterlist of fics here when they're all finished.

To sign up, please comment to this post with your lj-name (or a way to contact you if you're not on LJ) and between 1-3 lines from various songs that you might like to see spun into fics. (Just one line from each song, and please include the artist and song title.) They can be silly or serious or sad or happy. Anything goes.

When you receive your assignment, you'll be given two song lyrics to choose from, so if one doesn't jumpstart your muse, hopefully the other will.

Also, please let me know if you can pinch-hit.

If you have to drop out after receiving your assignment, please let me know as soon as possible so I can assign your prompt to someone else.

This is a multi-fandom challenge, so feel free to write any fandom and any pairing you choose. And please pimp this out to all your friends. I'm only active in the Stargate: Atlantis and Torchwood fandoms, so that's where I'm pimping this, but I'd really like to see it expand beyond that.

If you have any questions about the challenge leave them in a comment here.

A week before the deadline (so November 3rd), I'll put up a post for you to give me the links to your fics.

All right, I think that's it. Let's get this thing started, shall we?


Edit: Also, please include in your comment whether or not you'd like a reminder a week before the deadline.

Edit2: Okay, I'm slightly concerned that I wasn't terribly clear on this, so I'm going to reiterate. You give me three lyrics, and I'll give you someone else's lyrics to write to. No one will be assigned their own lyrics as a prompt. Sorry for any confusion on that score. Carry on.

Edit3: Because someone asked...You don't need to include your fandom when you sign up. The lyrics will be distributed randomly. Some of them may end up not being given out at all. I'm mostly asking you to give me some because I don't think I'd be able to come up with enough on my own. (And they'd probably all come from the same ten bands.) If someone from a fandom you don't normally read ends up with your lyrics, think of it as a chance to have a little trial run in that fandom. Who knows, maybe you'll find a brand new place to share your crazy fandom love?

Comments

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was hoping you would do this challenge. Ok, 3 lyrics.....

"I really miss your hair in my face, and the way your innocence tastes. And I think you should know this, you deserve much better than me." - Better Than Me by Hinder

"I'd never want to see you unhappy, I thought you'd want the same for me." - Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

"If this world is wearing thin and you're thinking of escape, I'll go anywhere with you, just wrap me up in chains." - Stay by Shakespeare's Sister.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

There’s a saying old, says that love is blind. Still we’re often told, seek and ye shall find. - Someone to Watch Over Me - Ella Fitzgerald

I saw the bedroom toys, now I’m stalling / I can’t believe my eyes. / I saw the bedroom toys now I’m crawling. I learn to improvise - Bedroom Toys - Duran Duran


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[misslucyjane]

misslucyjane

Babe, you really turn me on, like an idea, like an atom bomb
"Babe, You Turn Me On," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

This is how you made my heart a hunter
"Fallen Icons," Delerium

What if I'd been born fifty years before you, in a house on a street where you live?
"The Luckiest," Ben Folds

Please send me the week-before reminder.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we’re all so easily swayed - Angry Mob - The Kaiser Chiefs

It’s amazing, with the blink of an eye, you finally see the light. And it’s amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you’ll be alright - Amazing - Aerosmith


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[garneteve.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, I'm Garneteve, and I'd like to participate in this :)
Songs that I'd like song line from:

Filthy Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
What I like About you - Romantics
Candyman - Christina Agulieria

I can be reached at garneteve at bigpond dot com

I wouldn't mind having a second prompt either...but then, that's up to you :)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Oops. What I actually need from you is a line from each of those songs. You'll be assigned a line that someone else contributes.

Sorry that wasn't more clear.

[halfspokenwords.livejournal.com]

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Space Oddity, David Bowie

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in / Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
London Calling, The Clash

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

Reminder, please! Do you need an email address?

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Nope. Don't need an email address, unless you'd prefer your reminder that way. I'll just reply to your comment here to remind you.

[oriolegirl]

I cannot resist. I'm in.

oriolegirl

This feels like the place between what is and might have been - "Lincoln Avenue," Train

like a star that guides a ship across the ocean / that's how your love can take me home back to you - "Back To You," Bryan Adams

Saw you across the hall / Wish I had the guts to call / Turned and went the other way - "The Day," Ben Broussard

Yes, reminder, please.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Just have to say that I've only ever heard one song by Ben Broussard (and I don't even remember what it was), but I love you for using him here, simply because he's a Mariner.

Go M's!

[gemmi999.livejournal.com]

Son I've made my life, out of reading people's faces, knowing what the cards were by the way they held their eyes.
The Gambler, Kenny Rogers

I think I've already lost you, I think you're already gone, I think I'm finally scared now, you think I'm weak, I think you're wrong.
If You're Gone, Matchbox 20

she finds strength in her anger, and the truth in his lies. When the last scar finally fades, she'll have a new life
Alive, SR-71

[gemmi999.livejournal.com]

Oops--forgot to mention I'll do pitch hitting.
Please contact me at gemmi999@gmail.com

Thanks for organizing this!

[del-writes.livejournal.com]

I'm <lj user="del_writes" and I'd really like the reminder please. It's time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last -- Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars Fed up with my destiny, this place of no return -- Beautiful Goodbye by Amanda Marshall Not ready to think these thoughts in the middle of the night -- Endgame by Anthony Stewart Head

[del-writes.livejournal.com]

I'm an idiot who can apparently not post in a readable format, so here it goes again.

I'm del_writes and I'd really like the reminder please.

It's time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last -- Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars

Fed up with my destiny, this place of no return -- Beautiful Goodbye by Amanda Marshall

Not ready to think these thoughts in the middle of the night -- Endgame by Anthony Stewart Head

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

So, I got a bit carried away. You can use some of these for others if you want.

Jo Dee Messina - My Give A Damn Is Busted
You can crawl back home, say you were wrong
Stand out in the yard and cry all night long
go ahead and water the lawn, my give a damn's busted

I Quit - Hepburn
There was a time when
I would go walking backwards
Round the world if you said you're mine

Lucky - Bif Naked
It was a Monday, when my lover told me, "Never pay the reaper with love only."
What could i say to you, except, "I love you." and "I'd give my life for yours."

Teenage FBI - Guided by Voices
Someone tell me why I do the things
That I don't wanna do
When you're around me I'm somebody else

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

*pokes holes in the brain*

Please remind me of the due date.

Thanks ;)

[lookninjas.livejournal.com]

I'll give this a whirl!

So don't keep telling me that you're dying to know
'Cause you're not really listening - "Thirty Whacks," Dresden Dolls

I haven't slept for two days; I've bathed in nothing but sweat
And I've made hallways scenes for things to regret - "Rest My Chemistry," Interpol

Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best - "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," Cole Porter

And please do remind me; I'm an absent-minded young thing.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

Someone tell me why I do the things / That I don’t wanna do / When you’re around me I’m somebody else - Teenage FBI - Guided by Voices

Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don’t really care for music, do you? - Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[archae-ology.livejournal.com]

*is so in*

archae_ology

1)Crazy well what are you then
Give me an hour and I'll give your dream
Shhh- Frou Frou

2)I'll sell my rod, I'll sell my reel
I'll sell my only spinning wheel
To buy my love a sword of steel
Siulil A Run- Celtic Woman

3)So let me come to you
Close as I want to be
Close enough for me
To feel your heart beating fast
Eyes on Me- FFVIII OST

And reminder please and thank you!

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

This is just a reminder of the antique shop that I want to go back and visit when it’s open in Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa - Rufus Wainwright

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World - U2


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[vagablonde.livejournal.com]

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.
Leonard Cohen, So Long Marianne

When you're standing at the crossroads that you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end
Bob Dylan, Death Is Not The End

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

It was a Monday, when my lover told me, “Never pay the reaper with love only.” / What could I say to you, except, “I love you.” and “I’d give my life for yours.” - Lucky - Bif Naked

I, am I just imagining you / You, or do you really have a thing for me / Like I think I see when I see you smile / And the smile’s for me? - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Rubinoos


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[partofthequeue2.livejournal.com]

Loving your Chuck header btw :)

Hmm, lyrics:
I'm child and man and child again, the toy broken boy soldier
Broken Boy Soldier by The Raconteurs.

We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we're all so easily swayed
Angry Mob by The Kaiser Chiefs.

Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did, looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
Still Standing by Elton John.

[partofthequeue2.livejournal.com]

Oh, and can I please have a reminder a week before the due date. Thanks!

[athousanderrors.livejournal.com]

Well, my lj name is good, and you already know my email. :P Are we allowed to give more lyrics? I have lots to spare. Hee.

"drain the veins in my head, clean out the reds in my eyes to get by security lines, dear x-ray machines, pretend you don't know me so well; I won't tell if you lie." Plane - Jason Mraz

"This is why I always wonder, I'm a pond full of regrets. I always try to not remember rather than forget." Not Going Anywhere - Keren Ann

"I think of you and the thoughts that you keep, and I wonder do you know me? Everything that I have is broken in two, everything that I am revolves around you, and you just don't understand what a girl goes through." Lullaby - Alana Davis

[athousanderrors.livejournal.com]

ooh, and can I have a reminder too? Even if you just post it on your LJ, I'll catch it. Should catch it. Heh.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Okay... something needs to get me writing again... So:

Who?: thefannishwaldo

Reminder?: Yes please.

Lyrics:
Some people call it a one-night-stand, but we can call it paradise.
- "Save a Prayer" - Duran Duran

I saw the bedroom toys, now I'm stalling/I can't believe my eyes.
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawling. I learn to improvise.
- "Bedroom Toys" - Duran Duran

Please tread gently on the ground when all around you earth turns to fire
Only get a second chance when danger's on the wind.
Because you're lonely in your nightmare let me in...
- "Lonely in Your Nightmare" - Duran Duran

(sorry, I have a one track music mind at the moment.)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

What if I’d been born fifty years before you, in a house on a street where you live? - The Luckiest - Ben Folds

all these lives you’ve been taking, deep inside my heart is breaking - All These Lives - Daughtry

Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[cosmonaut-elf.livejournal.com]

I wanna participate!

Ok, some song lyrics...

"It's amazing, with the blink of an eye, you finally see the light. And it's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright." -Aerosmith 'Amazing'

"All this black and cruel despair, this is an emergency. Don't you hide your eyes from me! Open them and see me now!" - Tatu 'Clowns'

[cosmonaut-elf.livejournal.com]

Lol. Forgot the rest...

"Where will I meet my fate? Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate.
And when will I meet my end?" -Keane 'Bad Dream'

And, please send me a reminder. I'll totally forget.

[cs-whitewolf.livejournal.com]

Quick question, are we supposed to be saying which fandom(s) we write in? So that we'll get prompts from people in the same fandoms? Or is it just more of a free-for-all?

Thanks! :)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

It's more of a free-for-all. The prompts aren't fandom specific, and the distribution will be completely random.

[freakykat.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'd love to sign up. Here are my three lyrics:

"Love me or leave me or rip me apart" -- Black Mamba by The Academy Is...

"Take what you need while there's time." -- Lighthouse by The Hush Sound

"This welcome is gone and I've waited long enough to make it" -- Can't Take It by All American Rejects

[freakykat.livejournal.com]

*oops*

May I get a reminder too please? :)

[kylielee1000.livejournal.com]

I too cannot resist, and it's partly because it's not fandom specific!

1. "Pictures came and broke your heart." The Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star (http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/videokilledtheradiostarlyrics.html)

2. "A metaphor is a popular place, / A pocket space, / A multiplex showing, / A remake whose action is louder than words." Sparks, Metaphor (http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/sparks/metaphor.html)

3. "Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, / The sweeping insensitivity of this still life." Imogen Heap, Hide and Seek (http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Hide-and-Seek-lyrics-Imogen-Heap/1C15C93FB95800BA48257008000634FB)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

You left when I told you I was curious / I never said that I was brave - So Long Marianne - Leonard Cohen

I'll be corageous if you can pretend that you've forgiven me - I Don't Know You Anymore - Savage Garden


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[mareel.livejournal.com]

Please contact me at mareel, and I'd appreciate a reminder. Thanks! This sounds like fun.

Lyrics:

When I fall too far will you be my morning star, at the end of the night?
- "At the End of the Night" -- Karen Matheson

I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
- "Song for a Winter's Night" -- Sarah McLachlan

For when you are laughing like silver, like rain... you cool me, you soothe me and love me again
- "The Panic in Me" -- Elton John

Even when the dark clouds gather, you will be the light
- "Never Be the Sun" -- Dolores Keane

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

I’ll sell my rod, I’ll sell my reel / I’ll sell my only spinning wheel / To buy my love a sword of steel - Siulil A Run - Celtic Woman

I really miss your hair in my face, and the way your innocence tastes. And I think you should know this, you deserve much better than me - Better Than Me - Hinder

Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

"All These Lives" by Daughtry
all these lives that you've been taking, deep inside my heart is breaking

"Another Morning" by Elliot Minor
another morning, she’s still ignoring me, there’s no change

"My Only" by Goodbye Nurse
part of me I’ll never see, come visit me in my dreams

A reminder would be great please!

xfirefly9x // xfirefly9x@hotmail.com

[wickedplotbunny.livejournal.com]

There's nothing I could say to make you try and feel okay... - A Minor Incident - Badly Drawn Boy

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be, and I don't wanna go home right now - Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

His hair had turned from black into bright white Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies

Obviously, this is my Lj username. You can also get me via jodiewan_kenobi@hotmail.com

[zoemargaret.livejournal.com]

ok, i'd like a reminder. here are my lyrics:

silverchair's "straight lines"
I'm a sex change
and a damsel with no heroine.


garbage's "you look so fine"
Let's pretend, happy end.


and the foo fighters "best of you"
Were you born to resist or be abused?
I swear I'll never give in
I refuse


thank you for running this! yay for ficathon!

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

It’s time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last - Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds to Mars

Some people call it a one-night-stand, but we can call it paradise. - Save a Prayer - Duran Duran


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[tipsywitch.livejournal.com]

Dunno why I missed this before but I did. *waves* Can I still play?

Ok then - three song lyrics.

"You put a stain, on every one of my good days." - Disease by Matchbox 20

"There's a saying old, says that love is blind. Still we're often told, seek and ye shall find." Someone to Watch Over Me by Ella Pitzgerald.

"Sink into your eyes and all I see; love is an ocean and you for me. Sink into your eyes, your eyes are all I see. Your love is an ocean." Ever So Lonely by Sheila Chandra.

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

I think I’ll find a pair of eyes tonight, to fall into and maybe strike a deal / Your body for my soul, fair swap ‘cause cheap is how I feel - ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel - Cowboy Junkies

If this world is wearing thin and you’re thinking of escape, I’ll go anywhere with you, just wrap me up in chains - Stay - Shakespeare’s Sister

Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[tipsywitch.livejournal.com]

oops - and a reminder please.

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

As night descends upon the city, the streets are cold, the lights go by. And in the stories of the people, a million faces, a million lies. -- Chrome, VNV Nation

Staring down the stars, you're jealous of the moon. -- Jealous of the Moon, Nickel Creek

This is just a reminder of the antique shop that I want to go back to and visit when it's open in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -- Tulsa, Rufus Wainwright

This seems very cool. :D

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

drain the veins in my head, clean out the reds in my eyes to get by security lines, dear x-ray machines, pretend you don’t know me so well; I won’t tell if you lie. - Plane - Jason Mraz

I think of you and the thoughts that you keep, and I wonder do you know me? Everything that I have is broken in two, everything that I am revolves around you, and you just don’t understand what a girl goes through - Lullaby - Alana Davis


Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!

[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

"I don’t know where we’re going/But I know we’ve gone too far and/I hope it isn’t showing/But I think I love you and/I can’t believe you’re leaving/just when I let you in/And when you had me believing/I could feel again." --Jay Brannan, Half-Boyfriend

"I'm not going to stand on the end of the pier/I'm not going to let you go down with the ship/Raise up your anchor it's time to set sail/And I'm not going to let you go down." --Enter the Haggis, Down With the Ship

"I, am I just imagining/You, or do you really have a thing for me/Like I think I see when I see you smile/And the smile's for me?" --The Rubinoos, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

I can also pinch hit if necessary. :)

[skidmo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for signing up! Okay, here are your lyrics:

another morning, she’s still ignoring me, there’s no change - Another Morning - Elliot Minor

When you’re standing at the crossroads that you cannot comprehend / Just remember that death is not the end - Death Is Not the End - Bob Dylan

Posting instructions can be found here (http://skidmo-fic.livejournal.com/30879.html). Good luck!