FAWM: "Green Grass Winter (lyrics)"

Green Grass Winter (lyrics)

Skirmish: Robin's random titles: Ch... (@robinleaf)

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Liner Notes

I got to the skirmish late but this was a fun, quick write. That title had a lot of great imagery built in already! #skirmish #lyricsonly #lyrics

Lyrics

It’s a green grass winter
But it was snowing just the other day
Now the ice has melted and
Fires spreading through LA
It’s February but you can get a tan
Lay your boorish sunscreen on thick
But there are flowers blooming
Down in the Antarctic

It’s a green grass winter
But the green is turning brown
Probably from the lack of rain clouds
Crying on this town
Lawns are being lost
To their skeletons of dirt
All the counties reservoirs
Screaming drought alerts

It’s a green grass winter
Or so I’ve heard the tales
Of grassy lawns, clean oceans,
And the long extinct blue whale
Before granddad passed away
I heard stories from before the downfall
He left me a painting of a meadow
I’ve got it hanging on the wall

Comments

@debs 1w

Some really cool imagery in here; I particularly liked "Lawns are being lost / To their skeletons of dirt". The structure is great too. Starting off each verse in the same way really grounds it and tells a story.

@tjeff 1w

Nice take on the title that you chose - a concerning topic but with evocative and picturesque language.

@robinleaf 1w

I chose the same one! This is so great. I love having the West Coast perspective on this, and your word choices are ace. My favorite stanza is the second (OMG "skeletons of dirt," genius), but I also really like the way you've ended it...