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SpinTunes #11: Round 1

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Pacing down at the edge of the dock Never been off this monochrome rock Bought my ticket to make the escape That is no longer only a word on the tip of my tongue The first wave washes over me For the moment still moored to the land The stories I thought would have painted a map But I know where I'm headed is out of my hands Let the tether fall And push away I tell myself I'm never going to be the same As I drift farther from the safety of the shore A million doors open And before I see where they go I am free I am swallowed I am beautiful I am out of control Take me How will I ever get home The mirror can only disguise what I see (Shall I peel my face away) Caught in a loop that envelopes the peace (Can't turn it off, can't make it stop) Here it comes again Let the tether fall And push away I tell myself I'm never going to be the same As I drift farther from the safety of the shore A million doors open And before I see where they go I am caught I'm enlightened I'm expendable I am more than I was before Save me How will I ever get home
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I'm a first time caller long time listener I'm a first time lover long time drinker this was my last time trying my last time believing in you it's true it was a cold december evening in my pickup it was the last night with my first love you see I found a letter that had fallen from your coat it said "i love you", but it wasn't from me so i'm calling, mr. D.J., to ask you Is there a way to take away this pain Because i'm crying and drink in' and I'm going insane because the letter was signed my best friend's name so I'm a first time caller long time listener I'm a first time lover long time drinker this was my last time trying my last time believing in you it's true so you people listening on the A.M. radio Take this as a warning i hope that it makes sense Keep your lover close and don't look in her coat And never introduce her to your friends
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I did not see the knife when you twisted it deep into me, love Making a secret scar Though I fought for my life I was gone, too gone to leave, love The first time you broke my heart The first time you broke my heart I walked out your door Then I crawled back for more The first time you broke my heart My eyes in the blue were a cloud filling with rain, love Refusing to fall apart So I lied, next to you I was proud and hid in the pain, love The first time you broke my heart The first time you broke my heart I walked out your door Then I crawled back for more The first time you broke my heart Every time I'd try to move along My love for you grew twice as strong Love is wild that’s the rule Someone’s gonna play the fool the first time you broke my heart I walked out your door Then I crawled back for more The first time you broke my heart
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Finally I see the the truth I'm no longer blinded by youth I'm sick and I'm tired and I've nothing left to prove I can't even blame this on you It's the first time that I've really felt alone I'm lying here beside you on my own I wanted to believe in us but guess I should have known The first time that I've really felt alone Nothing's forever you know We've got no room left to grow We drive and we drive but we're running out of road Let's go through the motions for show It's the first time that I've really felt alone I'm lying here beside you on my own I wanted to believe in us but guess I should have known The first time that I've really felt alone There's nothing left to say I can't make this go away Too many reasons not to stay Too few to go Time heals all wounds so they say Still slowly we're fading to grey We duck and we dive in this game we've got to play Because there is no other way It's the first time that I've really felt alone I'm lying here beside you on my own I wanted to believe in us but guess I should have known The first time that I've really felt alone
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Live your life, live without concern For those who’d love you Twist the knife, I feel my stomach churn All because you Fool me once, the ceiling starts to drop The friend I thought I knew was just a prop Your indiscretions set signals afire Our need to trust, it’s making us all liars I saw your monuments toppled in the streets That wasn’t even close to just I saw you shrug off your defeat You never said you were someone to trust You got everything you want Fool me once, iit all starts coming apart Why do we keep breaking our own hearts? Surely wouldn’t want my soul beneath this microscope Where the moment you spot the truth Is when you start losing hope You saved my life and set me right That’s the story that will prevail Deserved or not, we’ll forgive This first betrayal Fool me once, the ceiling starts to drop The friend I thought I knew was just a prop Fool me once it all starts coming apart Why do we keep breaking our own hearts? You’ll get everythning you want
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Jar Jar blinks Qui-Gon is gone Whatever Lucas thinks is so clean but oddly empty Nothing going on There are trade negotiations There are Jedi meditations Can't bring myself to care, because The first time The first time That I saw Phantom Menace Was the last time I trusted Star Wars The first time The first time That I saw Phantom Menace Was the last time I trusted Star Wars They can race on desert planets They can dive beneath the core What I need is decent acting What I want is something more They can draw a thousand robots fighting ships in outer space But no CGI can fix the look of boredom on my face The first time The first time That I saw Phantom Menace Was the last time I trusted Star Wars The first time The first time That I saw Phantom Menace Was the last time I trusted Star Wars Jar Jar blinks Qui-Gon is gone Whatever Lucas thinks is so clean but oddly empty Nothing going on The first time The first time That I saw Phantom Menace Was the last time I trusted Star Wars
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In late eighty-nine, In the band room in high school, A friend and I sat In the band teacher’s office To listen to something The band teacher said we should hear. At first it was just a guy talking And sounds of applauding As people bought Lots at an auction, And why this might int’rest The two of us still wasn’t clear. Sure, event’ally somebody Started to sing, But the song and the music Weren’t really my thing, ‘Cause it mostly just sounded Like recitative, And I wasn’t impressed, And I wished I could leave, But the band teacher’s sitting there Fully engrossed, And to leave now would feel like Deserting our host. And I don’t even notice He’s bumping the volume to “high” . . . <MUSIC> And before high school was over, I’d bought ev’ry cast album Andrew Lloyd Webber had written! Then . . . In March, ninety-three, I go home for Spring Break And I visit my fam’ly And go see Evita, Then on to Chicago Where I’m gonna see Miss Saigon. The mom of a friend Who I stayed with insisted on Getting us tickets to Some other show With a weird-sounding name In the suburbs some thirty miles on. So I wasn’t that thrilled About having to go. And we hit a raccoon As we drove to the show. And the theatre’s staging This show in the round. And it seems we’ll be stuck With inferior sound, ‘Cause the orchestra’s Off in some separate room Looking in through a window, And I just assume I’ll be mis’rable As the lights dim and we get underway . . . <MUSIC> And before college was over, I’d gone out and bought Ev’ry cast album Sondheim wrote, too! It’s amazing how something can grab you. It can reach in your brain And then never let go And expose you to so many things You might never have known . . . Then . . . In early two thousand, I finally purchased The debut CD Of one Audra MacDonald . . . <MUSIC>
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First time I left Lancashire And last time I was there Took a carriage to Liverpool With no last fanfare As I gazed out the window At the hills and lakes of my home I made my last memories Before I went to roam First time in America First time overseas Buy a future in Tennessee With Lancastrian fees My Da' worked the common land Taught me how to grow In the fields that his father worked With a plough and a hoe Now that there's no work for farmers When there's sheep who'll pay a man more So I'm going to work in the New World Now England's no land for the poor First time in America First time overseas Buy a future in Tennessee With Lancastrian fees First time on a sailboat I was sick all the way First time drinking rum, first time feeling glum Now I was away Then an old man took out a fiddle And he played all the old songs I knew And I cried for merry old England As she vanished from view First time in America First time overseas Buy a future in Tennessee With Lancastrian fees For a year I have worked here Two more left to go To pay off the passage here I'll reap and I'll sow They say its better to die On your feet than live on your knees But better an indentured servant Than a starving man who is free First time in America First time overseas Buy a future in Tennessee With Lancastrian fees
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Hey little partridge, little potpourri Still inside your mama's belly, brewing like a tea I know that you don't know me yet, and you're barely yet complete But there's some people here you need to meet... Everybody's waiting for everything to change Everybody's waiting and I've never felt so strange What you gonna look like? Will your eyes be brown or blue? Our lives are never gonna be the same when we have you No, our lives are never gonna be the same when we have you Hey, listen children, pull up a chair Your mom and I have got some news we'd like to share I know you're happy here, but this town has too many scars And we deserve a place that's truly ours... Our lives are never going to be the same No, they'll never be quotidian and lame As perfect as a portrait in its shame It's such a shame What we became Hey pterodactyl, sit with me a while I still remember that first time I saw your smile Days can feel like years to me, and years can feel like days I still remember when we'd say... No, our lives are never gonna be the same when we have you No our lives are never gonna be the same When we have you
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So many seats, so many people So many sounds, it’s like a cathedral With a red velvet curtain and lobby chandeliers The players tune up, the lights go down The curtain rises, I think that I’ve found A new kind of paradise, I only want to be here And the lines that are spoken, and the songs that are sung And the stories they are telling are leaving me hung On every word and on every exit and entrance Of the leading roles and the chorus and the stagehands And the costumes and the lights and though it just began The lights come back up So may thoughts, so many feelings Paisley in the carpets, carvings in the ceiling That I can’t help but stare at while I wait for intermission to end The actors return, the story resumes Another act, that ends too soon but The characters seem to think they have said all that needs to be said (or do they?) But the lines that were spoken, and the songs that were sung And the story they were telling left me hung On every word and on every exit and entrance Af the leading roles and the chorus and the stagehands And the costumes and the lights and though it just began The lights come back up The curtain comes down, applause fills the air I begin to realize soon I won’t be there Anymore with these characters, suspending my disbelief But I know I believe that I will be here again I know I believe that I will be here again
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I signed my name on the dotted line More than happy to serve my time To make a stand for freedom and democracy To save the world, to keep us free I joined the army to do what's right And they trained me to win the fight I marched for miles, learned to shoot a gun I learned to fight, to get the job done And I pulled the trigger a thousand times Never a once thought it was a crime 'Cause I'm trained to kill the enemy All in the name of Democracy But the very first time I shot a man Is the very moment I came to understand We're not fighting for democracy We're fighting for profit, that's our policy I pulled the trigger for the thousandth time And then I killed a man I pulled the trigger for the very last time Because I killed a man Because I killed a man They send us all off to fight a war To uphold the oath that we swore They send us to fight for uncle Sam When will we learn that it's all a sham? 'Cause we drop bombs and cause misery Nothing to do with Democracy We go and fight and kill the common folk 'Cause war is for profit, what a joke I pulled the trigger for the thousandth time And then I killed a man I pulled the trigger for the very last time Because I killed a man I pulled the trigger for the thousandth time And then I killed a man I pulled the trigger for the very last time Because I killed a man Because I killed a man
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My first swim lesson was disastrous When I ventured to the deep end My instructor neglected to state the obvious Betrayed by my foolish mind I took a deep breath of water And almost died My chest started to hurt I yearned for something in my lungs So I overrode my instinct and took a gulp Betrayed by my foolish mind I took a deep breath of water And almost died Nobody told me you can't breathe under under water Nobody told me you cannot breath under any water x4 (I shouldn't have found out the hard way) x7 My dad was watching from the bleachers In this South Salt Lake high school pool He dove in , pulled me out, still wearing slacks and sneakers Betrayed by my foolish mind I took a deep breath of water And almost died Betrayed by my foolish mind I took a deep breath of water And almost died
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To reach out for the stars To hold the little dreams To watch the world float by Would be a pleasure Hold on to your seats And ask the Gods for mercy To push through things never known Journey for the footsteps on the moon Turn away now, stop watching Nothing holding you back just the dreams Of everybody stuck at ground control Everything goes fast When you get of the ride to notice Only silence to fill the void And you know you should not be starstruck But you've been watching them all your life But you feel so close They might explode Journey for the footsteps on the moon Turn away now, stop watching Nothing holding you back just the dreams Of every stuck at ground control The panic sets in As the air lock is sealed And you realise Your out here on your own Making the first footprints on the moon Everybody watching the whole world is watching Nothing holding you down Cos they're celebrating at ground control Celebrating at ground control
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In the beginning Darkness was upon the face of the deep And God said “let there be light” And there was light And God created Heaven and Earth And God created the Sun, Moon, and Stars And God created plants and animals And he looked at his creation and saw that it was good Then God created man Who screwed it all up At first Everything was perfect The whole world All shiny and new Then Eve Got tempted by a serpent To eat the fruit That God said was taboo She fell prey To the snake’s seduction A smoother talker There has never been So she became The Eve of our destruction When she committed That original sin So we Got kicked out of the garden ‘Cause Adam ate it too Much to his chagrin Mankind Got a sentence with no pardon High price to pay for that original sin It’s said Forbidden fruit tastes sweeter It’s always tempting To take a little bite But it ain’t fair To be labeled as a cheater It’s hard to be good When you don’t know wrong from right So next time You tell me that I blew it And that I went astray again I’ll just say The devil made me do it It’s on account of that Original sin It’s said Forbidden fruit tastes sweeter It’s always tempting To take a little bite But it ain’t fair To be labeled as a cheater It’s hard to be good When you don’t know wrong from right So next time You tell me that I blew it And that I went astray again I’ll just say The devil made me do it ‘Cause I’ve been tainted By original sin
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I had been able to shirk it for so long though I could not avoid its dreaded name I had heard stories of the long nights with long fights this phrase lives on infame I had been able to shirk it for so long That it became a point of pride But now I sit with my girlfriend and her family And they pass to me a dish of this dreaded side Holy wow I love Brussel sprouts God damn I must scream and shout Have you heard I love Brussel sprouts (Father: Get down from the table!) ’Tis only human to have fear of the unknown A strong component of fight of flight But you’ll never know if you could like something you fear If you drown it in olive oil you might (Father: Ugh! Not again!) Holy shit I love Brussel sprouts God damn I must scream and shout Have you heard I love Brussel sprouts Broccoli was suggested once to me But the florets got stuck in my teeth Squash too squishy and cauliflower’s a bore When it came to veggies I'd no idea what was in store Holy wow I love Brussel sprouts God damn I must scream and shout Have you heard I love brussel sprouts (Father: I don't care how much you love him, you can't see him anymore)
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Grab a blank page and my brand new guitar I'm gonna write my first song, and you can bet it will be perfect Take a deep breath and I straighten my chair I've gott have it just right cause you can bet it will be perfect Put on the coffee pot make sure it's nice and hot you know I should have thought but i can't work without a little I'll turn the TV on but keep the volume down or i'll just see what's on It wouldn't hurt to take a little break First things first, I'm just gonna make me a snack and then I'll write my first song and you can bet it will be perfect pen in hand I just need to tune my guitar I've got to get it just right so you can bet it will be perfect And what I'm thinking next, i better send a text just want to double check so let me know what you are up to well i don't mean to brag cause that is such a drag but wait for the reveal, this song is gonna be a big deal. but I don't know how to write a song. No i don't know how to write a song. Some day I'm gonna grab my guitar I'm gonna write my first song and you can bet it will be.
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I've been staring at the wall Until the stones burn in my eyes For the climb before the fall For the clouds before the skies I wonder how we got this far I couldn't see your lies from truth So when you told me that you don't love me too That was the first time I believed you If we forget, we're human, though We are forgive we are divine Into the garden we would go But the fruit would wither on the vine I wonder how we got this far I couldn't see your lies from truth So when you told me that you don't love me too That was the first time I believed you
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Finding a way in the world, hoping that, someday, I'll get the girl, and the job and the fame I've always felt I was owed. Worked all my life to carve a space, that fits my form, to have a place, where I could be praised for reaping the seeds I've sowed But for the first time, that's not my concern. I'm resolved to know, I'm never getting my turn. I was appealing to my vanity, But now, I think, I finally see. For the first time, I'm free to just be me, I had a dream, and chased it, but all that time was wasted. And now I leave it behind to start from scratch. But I didn't quit, I fought. It was never quite what I thought. No matter how hard I tried, I can't make a match. But for the first time, I don't even care. I've spent enough time, just pulling out my hair. I was appealing to my vanity, But now, I think, I finally see. For the first time, I'm free to just be me, Yeah, for the first time, I'm not even concerned. I'm resolved to know, I'm never getting my turn. I was appealing to my vanity, But now, I think, I finally see. For the first time, I'm free to just be me.
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This is not a game You play again and again Actions have consequences (cause and effect) And when it’s too late You close your eyes Too late to cry The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die You may think You will reincarnate But your unholy life Has sealed your fate Death is the ultimate purpose of life Everything will decay someday Enjoy it while you can The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die The first time you die
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We've never done that before It's something that we should ignore But that's not that easy to do We'll not feel the same given time The vodka, the soda, the lime Was probably speaking for you I'm not concerned with the why or the how I'm feeling all that my feelings allow Feels like I ain't really seen you 'til now I can't pretend I feel worse But now's not the time to rehearse For what might not ever be real We'll not feel the same given space Our hands are all over the place That's pretty hard to conceal I'm not concerned with the why or the how I'm yelling all of my feelings out loud Feels like I ain't really seen you 'til One day I'll wake up, you'll not be around I'll probably pretend I'm not even let down Feels like I ain't really seen you til now
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When life starts to get crushin’ I recall what my daddy said “Don’t you know that fools just rush in Where wise men fear to tread” I’ve heard it said by people That you gotta trust your gut I’d like it all to be so simple I wish that I could, but First is the worst And last is the best If you go before you know You’re gonna fail the test If you’re first you’re cursed If you wait you’re great Don’t you pout just sort it out Try to corroborate It’s not a crime to take some time And try to figure out The pratfalls and the pitfalls And what everything’s about So think it through, then make your move Don’t just act on instinct You think you’ve got some things to prove But get yourself in sync First is the worst And last is the best If you go before you know You’re gonna fail the test “Wait a minute, hold up son Think about what you have done Take your lessons from your past Don’t be first and make things last” First is the worst And last is the best If you go before you know You’re gonna fail the test
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You can say anything you want. Your every word is sweet to me. But there are those words which mean so much more. And when you said those to me, oh! It’s like the first time I prayed. It’s like the first time I saw the sun. My whole world is remade. Now a whole new life has begun. Now as I se the world anew, There are some words I’d say to you. These are those words which mean so much more. And so I’m here to say, “I love you too.” It’s like the first time I prayed. It’s like the first time I saw the sun. My whole world is remade. Now a whole new life has begun.
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As I'm browsing the web through the news and the blogs I often feel lost and adrift in the sea Through pages and pages of comments and posts Everyone has an opinion but me. A continual stream of content is added The ratio of info to noise is too much I wander this wilderness until I discover An article or post blessedly untouched To post first, the thrill of winning the rac I post first; in all upper case I post first into every blank space. You think I'm a troll, but it's a salve to my soul, to post first. At the CERN conference among the foremost minds Quantum Physics not too hard to understand Yet when they ask 'are there any questions' I cannot help but to raise my hand. To post first, the thrill of winning the rac I post first; in all upper case I post first into every blank space. You think I'm a troll, but it's a salve to my soul, to post first. It's quiet and dark and calm in this room That my brother twin is sharing with me 9 months of peace and repose in the womb There's only one reason that I'd ever leave. I've got nothing to say, but I lust to be heard. I get the last laugh when I have the first word.
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Ferdinand, Isabella I send my thoughts and trust they find you well. Skirted capture, rigged a sail, broken rudder, what a tale to tell. Toward the archipelago, ‘til Rodrigo called “land ho”. My bad, I meant I called “land ho”. Where’s that bonus, bro? I’m the first one here. No one has sailed across this sound before. None ever stood atop this mound before, aground a shore so near. I’m the first one here, manifestation of a grand pogrom, Destiny watching as I stand upon a land to commandeer. Kickin’ it as Governor, pick-and-choosing statutory law. Severed noses and ears today. Tyranny? To that I say “pshaw”. Here’s a new hit from the quay: transatlantic slavery. I can totally foresee all the gold for me. I’m the first one here. No one has sailed across this sound before. None ever stood atop this mound before, aground a shore so near. I’m the first one here, manifestation of a grand pogrom, Destiny watching as I stand upon a land to commandeer. I am the mutherflippin’ chief guy. The plot-a-course-around-that-reef guy. Forget the natives and that Lief guy. I’m the first one here. No one has sailed across this sound before. None ever stood atop this mound before, aground a shore so near. I’m the first one here, manifestation of a grand pogrom, Destiny watching as I stand upon a land to commandeer.
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the first time I saw you felt like the first time I lost my breath I tried to find it but didn't know where where to look or how it even got out my chest the first time I kissed you was like the first time I saw the stars the first time we watched the stars together we were sitting on the back of my car then we were dancing in the parking lot I was swimming then inside of your eyes wandering into our scene we saw a fella holding a knife in his gruff and weary face was the semblance of a life gone awry I held you close as he coughed up smoke and sighed and said I'm gonna take your money or I'm gonna take your head you seem like a couple of happy folk who don't wanna end up dead life is pretty, life is sweet but I don't wanna get out of bed witout some green to keep me this is the only way I know how to get the first time we took a trip to vegas you were my goodluck charm I cleaned roulette and felt real good til a gentleman took hold of my arm the first time I met with the russian mob a chill ran into my soul and the first time I'd been called a cheat was the first time I was dumped in a hole the first time I climbed from a shallow grave the mud was like blackstrap molasses and the rain so sweet I wished it never ended the first time that I gasped a breath I thought would never happen was the first time that I got the taste for vengeance I'm gonna take my money and I'm gonna take control I'm gonna take a pound of flesh from those who dumped me there in the hole life is pretty, life is sweet like kittens drinking milk from a bowl for the first time I will be the strongest one I know rage coming in waves spend all my days making a maze to trap you in cages I've been replaced, I've been betrayed, I've been erased after all that I gave, all the bouquets think of your face and just see a blaze to know that it's true that it was you who put me in a grave I'll be a different woman now and I'mma make a great disguise and when I'm through I won't leave you or any of the mobsters alive revenge can be so very sweet when it's coming as a special surprise all will be in place when I arrive I'm gonna take your money I'm gonna shake your hand I'm gonna look you in the eye and tell you you're a big strong man when you least expect it everything comes crashing in on top of your head and you'll see me holding strings beneath the scenes to wrap you up and strangle you dead
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released January 26, 2016

The Challenge:
My FIRST! Song - A song about a someone's first time experiencing something. First step, first word, first kiss, first day on the job, etc... (2 minute minimum length) (they had 9 days)

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