Little Box / Summer Solstice

[JoshGill]

Look at you in your little box
There’s no need for freedom
There’s no need for locks
You’re just sitting there
With your thoughts again
Waiting for your dreams
To come and heal your pain

What if we were to fly away
To another time
To another day
Would you be my angel
In a world of sin
Would you shut them out
Will you let me in

So will you run with me far away today
And in your way help me to understand
And make me a better man

We’ll draw the curtains and we’ll
Stop the clocks
And I’ll live beside you
In your little box

Catch the winters eye
Shake it from the sky
Tell the world to come and play
Feel the cooling breeze
As it tries to please
Let it take the dark away
To sing in the summer solstice

Take a fist of love
Scoop the clouds above
Mix together for me
Simmer for a while
In the suns sweet smile
Let the world set you free
To sing in the summer solstice

Those are the lyrics to one of my songs! lol Come listen to it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgy9GL56CFY

[WendyPratt]

Hello

I always struggle to properly appreciate song lyrics without the tune. I made a little tune up inside my head and sang them along to it, that helped.

Anyway, I like them, they're clean and fresh and I love the idea of the couple in the little box, you've given the feeling f intimacy in a few words and that works, for me.

Not sure how else to comment on song lyrics so I'll leave it there.

Wendy

[Sue]

Hi Josh

I agree with Wendy's difficulty - when you don't hear the melody or the rhythm of a song along with the lyric it's hard to judge it. I liked its kindliness and intimacy as far as the end of the 4th stanza, but I felt after that you were struggling to get the idea of the summer solstice into this, forcing it in. The idea of the freedom of the summer vs. the closed in nature of the box didn't quite work for me. Maybe it's really two songs. (Even your dual title suggests you are not certain.)

Is there a typo in "Would you should them out"? "Shut", maybe?