Hi
@PaulAds I'm glad you enjoyed my writing. I once wrote an entire album that was based on dark themes (rape, incest, paedophilia, bullying, suicide, another serial killer one, and other similarly dark themes - I should point out there was nothing graphic about the lyrics as the aim was to capture the emotions behind them). Pretty much all-but-one of them ended up so (one turned into a surrealistic journey through life but I couldn't bring myself to separate it from the rest).
Another "theme" running through all those songs was the fact I gave them all subtitles. Can't recall the reason why - I think it may just have been that the first two or three I wrote happened to be that way so I just OCD'd and carried on the tradition!
One of my all-time favourite songs that I've written is in there - called No Fairytale Kiss (You Pushed Me Away). It was about a woman in a coma who had saved her other half from an oncoming car... and how he felt as he sat by her side day after day.
I might post them here. I thought about doing so the other week but I didn't feel ready to at the time. Possibly the last "album" I wrote where I can still recall most (if not all) of the tunes. More difficult now, unfortunately, with my poor memory.
Hi
@adamfarr Just re-read it myself and you may be right with "strive" not being the right word (although for a different reason from yours - the "nice" rhyming doesn't really bother me that much).
But replacing it with "vie", I think, might fit the bill a bit better. The meaning is similar enough to not change the meaning too much but is different enough to maybe offer a slightly more accurate image of (my) intent.
What do you think?
Thank you both for your comments.
