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Doug Davis - Drowning in a Shallow Pool

from Round 38, Week 7 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Back to a bit of my "comfort-food" 9th-rate U2 kind of thing, but I kinda like it. Not gonna set the world on fire, but it's a better tune than anything I've managed to put together so far this round, I think. Lyrics are half-baked, as they have been all round, but maybe a step closer to a draft than some of the others. And I do like the title - one of those hook phrases that come to you, and you think that surely it's been used before, but I couldn't find much evidence of that, this time.

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watching shadows on the wall
praying anything at all
Thought I heard the sirens’ wail
Could be coming for you now
You’re a gamble anyhow
a minor third in a major scale
How’d you get so small and frail
Used to tower tall

When you were young the halls were still
simple silence you could fill
You were shouting out your name
Now those frequencies, so shrill,
Chaos crush your crowded will
All your fury turned to tame
And I keep wondering who to blame
For making you this way

Something snapped inside you
Something that once tied you
The thinning threads of your old pride
Wish I had a way to
Mold that potter’s clay you
Hide away, so lost inside
I can’t see you
Never felt like such a broken fool
I can’t feel you
You’re just drowning in a shallow pool

So now you’ve walled off your small world
Your confusion crossed and curled
It’s just easier to cope
Turn down the neon and the noise
Settle for the smaller joys
Lost your halo and your hope
When will you slip on down that slope
And show us who you are?

Something snapped inside you
Something that once tied you
The thinning threads of your old pride
Wish I had a way to
Mold that potter’s clay you
Hide away, so lost inside
I can’t see you
Never felt like such a broken fool
I can’t feel you
You’re just drowning in a shallow pool

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from Round 38, Week 7, released October 10, 2022

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