[Hooded Singer]

The best song I wrote is called Fresh Lemonade. I don't have a great deal of talent in singing or playing to bring it to life but lyrically this is my proudest accomplishment.

Fresh lemonade

First time I saw you
In half a decade
First thing we do
Drink fresh lemonade
Out on the porch where old memories don't fade

Looking out onto the field
Where we once played
It got older but it's the same
We got older but we're the same

All that's changed is you dropped your nickname

We're just the same
We're just the same
Just the same

Forgive me for walking away
I didn’t know who I was
Until today

The hardest things I had to say
Were said over fresh lemonade
And I owe you an apology
For all the times I pushed you away from me
To me you always stayed true
And I’m so sorry for leaving you

I’m sorry
But I
I am loyal to you

And for everything that we’ve been through
The highs and lows
The ups and downs
I’ve got one thing that I know you want
A glass
A glass of fresh lemonade

I don’t wanna lose you again
I’m sorry for what I said to you my friend
I was in a dark place
I couldn’t see your light
But for the first time in my life it finally feels right
We’re sat back at the porch and drinking fresh lemonade

You showed me that even when times are hard
Even when I am mad
Even when the lemons life gave are bad
You can make fresh lemonade

[Sing4me88]

My best song though is always "the next one"...

Oddly enough this is my exact sentiment. Granted I'm primarily a lyricist, rather than a songwriter, so that might explain why I subscribe to this philosophy - though I have had some great co-writes that I think were pretty good.

I'm starting to finese my toplining and playing about with bass lines etc in Mixcraft so I'm getting a little better with the consequence that lyrics are becoming more than words on a page as I can give co-writers a bit of an indication of what is in my head as a 'song'. Prior to this I had the exact problem someone else mentioned about nothing ever sounding like it does in your head....

[Oldbutyet]

These two songs where written years back and like a few more of my songs these two were written from that inner personal feelings, about five years back i started on this journey of recording and the first song i recorded with the help of Al Kelly was  "Live Goes On" Al plays piano on this track, the second one is "Blue Skies Are Dark At Night"

My answer to your question Paul "The best song you've written"  all of them and of course the next one as well.

Another great thread and really enjoying listening to great songs.

https://www.reverbnation.com/dogmax/song/27066097-life-goes-on

[tone]

Damn, it's taken me ages to get through this thread! Really good to hear these songs though - some really good stuff here. Highlights for me were tina's cheeky lyric and del's universal themes, but it's obvious throughout that we have some very capable writers in our midst.

This definitely was my 'one to beat' for so long, and maybe it still is. Maybe it's just because it's a few years old now, or maybe it's because my new (unrecorded) stuff really is better, but since I haven't recorded those yet, I'm going to have to go with north of the woods https://soundcloud.com/anthony-lane/north-of-the-woods

[delb0y]

Caught up with a few more of these before hitting the motorway. Wow. What a great thread.

Just listening to Paul's Rest in Peace. Glad I didn't come across this a month or two back, I'd have been in bits Tremendous song.

Adam's Rescued by the Rain was another new one to me - loved it. I need to delve back in to the archives here from before I joined. Missing a lot of classics.

And the other Paul's Honeymoon at Home was one I'd heard before but always a joy. Super production and, as I always say, Paul's work always takes me back to the days of my youth (in a very good way) with the vocal sound and the melodies and the style.

Brilliant stuff all round and a couple more pages still to go... :-)

[CaliaMoko]

Wouldn't it be cool to have an album of everyone's own favorites? This is probably my favorite thread on the forum. I would absolutely love to have a playlist of all these songs.

[PopTodd]

Wouldn't it be cool to have an album of everyone's own favorites? This is probably my favorite thread on the forum. I would absolutely love to have a playlist of all these songs.

Well, mine is available for free download at my Bandcamp page if you really want it. Go for it. I would love for you to have it.

[IronKnee]

I don't know....maybe, "All By Myself"
       
                                         

[Skub]

Very quirky song Adam,pretty special.

I hadn't heard those songs,Boydie. In fact I've heard very little of your stuff at all. 

Hole in my World is aces,it has a Knockin on heaven's door?Tom Petty feel. Edge of never,almost Robert Smith vibe. Watching me,watching you is a fine pop choon. All three very different and finely turned out. 3 and 4 years ago...don't you have time now Paul?

FU War..I don't remember this one John,despite your prodigious output,I'm surprised I missed this. It's a monster.

Paulads,was that song really 10 months ago?  Still sounds great man.

RIP is an ageless epic Paul,a hard trick to pull off.

I'm only halfway through the thread,great listening. 

[Skub]

I have a couple of songs which are particularly special to me. The first was written after walking away from songwriting for 20 years and was the first song I posted on here. I didn't know if I had anything left,but it turns out the taps are open again! 

https://soundcloud.com/skub1955/rock-a-hard-place-boydie-master

The second was written about a local lad who died in WW1. It made some people cry and that made me happy,since it meant I connected. Martin said it made him cry because it is so bloody long!

Kudos go to Boydie too,for the final act of turd polishing. 

https://soundcloud.com/skub1955/thomas-caldwell-boydie-master

[CaliaMoko]

Wouldn't it be cool to have an album of everyone's own favorites? This is probably my favorite thread on the forum. I would absolutely love to have a playlist of all these songs.

Well, mine is available for free download at my Bandcamp page if you really want it. Go for it. I would love for you to have it.

Thanks! I went and got it. I am making my own playlist of the songs on this thread. I'm excited. 

[tboswell]

So many amazing songs on this thread!

Great to hear Boydie's older tunes, classics from Paulski I don't think I'd heard. Tone's "north of the woods" is really lovely. Every lyrics I hear from PaulAds gets me right THERE!

the best song wot I think I rote is still unrecorded or rather it's been recorded several times but I just cannot get it to sound how it sounds in my head..so every now and again I have another go, as I've improved in arrangement/production I get a bit closer..but not happy enough to finish it...maybe soon..maybe this year

Flog that horse Kev! Sounds enticing, would love to hear to near misses as well as that platonic ideal you are going for!

For mine, it's got to be this one:
https://soundcloud.com/t-j-boswell/the-ends-justify-the-means

Catchy as hell, and tries to sum the entire history of the world as a fight for love. I get excited every time I hear it still.

Awesome thread!

Tom.

[rightly]

I haven't written my best yet, either.
Of those those already written, this is one of my interchangeable bests.

If someone says it's my best I can't really argue with them,
 i sometomes try but soon run out of steam.

Looking forward to listening to some of the site's talented artists when I've more time.

https://soundcloud.com/rightly/whistlesnbells-1

lyrics -

Whistles n' Bells

Wasting time, smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes
All is fine, she's got no regrets. No regrets
Everyone seems to be mad
Dressed to the nines, heart shaped lips, no-one to kiss
Whistles n bells, n' no more than this, more than this
Emptiness sells, blinking lights

Listen, I'm a natural, feel like an animal in a zoo
Next to impossible, almost too beautiful to be true
'til it happens to you

Lately, I've been eating brown leaves, morning star
He's all I need, watching over me, over me
Everyone seems to be mad
Wishin' I knew what the matter was, matter was
You cannot tell what knowing does, knowing does
Whistles n' bells, blinking lights

Maybe I'm an accident, passersby are standing around
One forgotten elephant the circus has long left town
And I'm still around

Listen to the fork-tongued or the sweet song mockingbird
All you want is your fun, come the dawn y'seem so absurd
Hey, have you not heard?

Everyone seems to be mad
Whistles n' bells, blinking lights. Blinking lights

[Skub]

For mine, it's got to be this one:
https://soundcloud.com/t-j-boswell/the-ends-justify-the-means

Catchy as hell, and tries to sum the entire history of the world as a fight for love. I get excited every time I hear it still.

Awesome thread!

Tom.

It's a cracker for sure Tom,but 'Where did the Time go Emily' is my personal fav of yours.

[Paulski]

Last night I listened to -

Boydie's "Hole In My World" - wonderful singer/songwriter stuff. Far more to my tastes than your pop offerings - though you obviously (audibly?) have a talent for both! 

skub's "Thomas-Caldwell"  - great song beginning to end. Heartfelt and poignant - love that (pan flute?) put a shiver down my old spine for sure. 

cheers all for the comments on RIP 
Paul