As part of the upcoming release for Bored Games, I’ve decided to play some Bored Games with you, the fans. Each person can submit ten words that they want to become a song, and I’ll work it in to put together a rough demo this weekend of yours and someone else’s list.

For example, I received “blue, snow, flipper, aorta, cinderella, earlobe, run, jump, hide, thrive” from Emily S. and “feather, skipper, marzipan, couch, shimmer, brush, lament, assumption, bristle, aligned” from Michael R. From that I wrote this song:

Blue skies give way to the clouds of snow
There’s flake drifting down past her earlobe
Cinderella’s late, so she starts to run
Her aorta starts to ache, the ball has just begun

Out of the carraige, up the steps
Cannot hide form the consequence

Flipper waitsto swim in another pool
The skipper wants him to jump through another hoop
While you sit on your couch, their instincts are aligned
As the dolphin makes his jump, the heroes thrive

Out the water, into the air
Flippers turn to feathers while you stand there

Late at night you lament the past
You made a wrong assumption, you know it won’t last
Picking up a brush, you comb your hair
The bristles make it shimmer and you stop to care

Out of the dream, into real life
Out of movie marzipan, into human strife

Then I received these words from Sara N.: “octopus, purr, salt, velvet, thwart, violet, scissors, chihuahua, gargoyle, lily” and these from Kim S.: “love, lace, heart, dolphin, snuggle, bunny, turkey, merry, jolly, happy”

From those words came the second song about a dolphin of the day:

I’ve never heard of a love quite like this
Between Merry the Dolphin and Lily the Octopus
Lily’s skin was violet, Merry’s heart was a size three
Together they found love in the salt water sea

Oh the secret lives of beasts
When humans are out of reach

I’ve haven’t found a rivalry so funny
Between a stone cold gargoyle and a snuggle bunny
The bunny’s velvet skin was twarted once again
And the gargoyle was smirking at him sitting by the fountain

Oh the secret lives of beasts
While humans are out of reach

You should have seen this chihuahua’s face
When a turkey cut him a heart of lace
Strapping scissors to it’s feet
To make the dog purr so jolly

Oh the secret lives of beasts
When humans are out of reach

*This idea comes from this blog by Carrie Brownstein (of NPR and Sleater-Kinney fame), modified for this weekend.