Hello
Please don't get excited thinking it's another great song from Jambrains and Karen! I borrowed their name to use as a lyric, as it is such a super line.
I wrote this when I got the headline "Whirlwind Romance" in the Headline Challenge...which made me think of "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut which I read a few years ago...Imagining two people literally thrown together in the firestorm that happened during the bombing of Dresden in 1945. I don't have any particular comment to make about it...except to pray that nothing like that ever happens again.
I made a clumsy video for it here…
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/584226430I had to re-record some vocals as they were pretty ropey...even by my standards
So I updated the original Soundcloud file...
Whirlwind Romance (Ashes for Dreams)
A whirlwind romance threw me into your arms
Wedding bells morph into fire alarms
We dance over rubble. The siren, she calls
Our shadows flicker on bomb shelter walls
In the heat of the moment our hearts set ablaze
An overhead Rolls Royce Orchestra plays
Our guests now depart and at last we’re alone
Together forever as charcoal and bone
A whirlwind romance but It’s not as it seems
Our footprints are carbon. We have ashes for dreams
I've been really impressed with all the Headline Challenge entries...thanks again to John and all the folks involved for making it happen!