Things have been slow around here lately, so maybe one of these song lyrics will help spark a story. Songwriters tell their own stories. What story do these lyrics tell you?

• Will you wait for me?
  Natalie Merchant, “Frozen Charlotte”
• As he stands there in the door 
  there’s no room for him anymore.
  She lies there saying,
  “Honey take one last look.”
  Greg Brown, “My New Book”
• I don’t have time to go back in time.
  I already lived it.
  Pete Yorn, “Close”
• That morning sky gave me a look
  So I left while you were sleeping.
  Blind Pilot, “Half Moon”
• was it you on my arm 
  like a tattoo carved in
  your strawberry curls
  against my black leather grin
  Jeff Finlin, “Long Lonesome Death of a Traveling Man”
• She said she’d call but that was three weeks ago
  She left all her things well, her books and her letters from him
  Dido, “Mary’s in India”
• And it’s impossible to tell
  How important someone was
  And what you might have missed out on
  And how he might have changed it all
  Feist, “Intuition”
  
• We tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt and me in a suit but it just wasn’t me,
  David Gray, “Say Hello Wave Goodbye”

Hmmm . . . I now see a somewhat melancholy theme here . . . (and they’re all some of my favorites).

Well, happy writing!