No Time to Die - #yetanotherbondsong

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« on: February 13, 2020, 06:23:05 AM »
Looks like we'll know what the "real" one is like later today, so I thought best to get my lyrics posted at least! Trying to get a flavour of Bond handing over to the next generation. And as a bonus, another cinematic "homage" in the M8.

"Nearly" done, I think.

V1
Even when there’s no smoke they fire
Rich girls building their stakes ever higher
Strongmen playing god along the borders
It's always me you call
When your world is getting out of order

V2
What used to be a shower is now a storm
Terror in the skies and on the shore
There's time to stop them if we both believe it
You're still young enough to care
And I'm old enough to know what’s needed

CH
It’s time to fight, it’s time to choose a side
Cos no-one’s gonna give you a license to survive
Let’s roll the dice, we can’t turn a blind eye
No time to cry, no time to hide
No time to die

V3
One day I'll hand the gun to someone new
And tonight I think that someone could be you
Are you coming to the danger zone?
Dying or surviving
Aren't always done best on my own

CH

M8
More gleaming C-beams to flee
More things to see that you people wouldn’t believe
Saving your own skin is not how our kind win
It’s lose-lose game, like life in vain, and tears in rain

V3
Final CH

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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2020, 10:42:33 AM »
This is really good Adam!
Please finish it... I really hope I get to hear the finished song.

I'd trim it down along the way
That m8.
Theres enough great imagery in here for an excellent song!
It's either this or that, then again it might be the other. 

I can promise you a future of slow decline.

Don't eat the yellow snow

And there you have it. 

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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2020, 05:52:37 PM »
@adamfarr,

Great opening line:  “Even when there’s no smoke they fire.”  A super couplet in fact “Rich girls building their stakes even higher.”  Followed up by the fantastic “strongmen” line.  Another standout line is, :“Terror in the skies  and on the shore.”

Your chorus is very strong indeed.  The imagery is so good that it should be an easy tax to add music. 

Well done Adam
Paul

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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2020, 10:14:10 PM »
Awesome stuff Adam. I also love the ‘strongmen’ line in particular... very Bond, very unusual. Looks set to be a cracker...
It's all too beautiful.

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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2020, 09:18:33 AM »
Thanks guys - I do like to start strong. Need to end strong too - that last line of v3 is still yet to settle...

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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2020, 10:30:07 AM »
Smashed it, Adam... The licence to survive line probably my favourite one...but really hard to pick just one out of a whole bunch of great lines.

Amazing quality of writing around this challenge!
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« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2020, 10:41:41 AM »
I'm with the others above. I'd just add I think you've captured that combination of world weariness with the pragmatic requirement to complete the mission which I think has been a feature of the Craig Bond. Great stuff. Good luck with the small matter of the music  ;)

Incidentally I just heard the Billy track. Very cinematic and atmospheric it is!
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