"This Girl's Allowed" a Nick_ODH & Hook original

[Hook]

So Nick_ODH did this really cool track  https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=19760.0 & wanted lyrics. ORH did a fine job here https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=19783.0. His was an empowering anthemesque tune. When I read the title it sent me into more dark thoughts of kidnapping & trafficking. I remembered an interview I heard with Elizabeth Smart (who had been kidnapped) & well... I wrote this.

This Girl's Allowed

music by Nick_ODH lyrics by Hook

Lost within the darkness
That's been thrust upon me know
If I could sew my eyes shut
Perhaps I could block you out
I know I can survive
& perhaps one day I'll stop the tears
This girl's allowed her fears

Taken & changes, Altered & maimed
How much of her remains
She can never be restored
to her former age
Taken from comfort
Kept within a cage
This girl's allowed her rage

Demean & destroy all goodness & joy
All that was hers is now sold
She's thought of as weak
But within her is strength
Reality is her paper to fold

The corner she takes
& the folds that she makes
Each lays down precisely
To strengthen the cracks & breaks
& to steady her feet
Even though she still shakes
This girl's allowed

[Oldrottenhead]

braw hook,  neither of us could help singing the title tho and at the exact same spot. nick planted the seed with the title lol. i want to do a mash up of both versions now. majick.

[Ferryman_1957]

I thought this was Jim's track because I clicked on it to see why it only had one response, then I found this gem! Great work, a really different take on it and the lyrics are brilliant. Well done.

[ODH]

OMG dude, that's amazing.  You've given the song a dimension I never would have guessed.  I love it.  The lyrics are sublime and the delivery bewitching.  There's a kind of Stephen King creepyness about the words, I love the paper folding theme at the end.

I'm humbled that you've brought such genius to my little track.

Did I say f#cking amazing?  I meant to...

i want to do a mash up of both versions now

You could lay one vocal right on top of the other, I think they'd work in counterpoint.  That I'd like to hear...

[Geir]

WOW !!

Did I say f#cking amazing? 

Well I'll do anyway ! f#cking amazing

I thought this was Jim's track because I clicked on it to see why it only had one response, then I found this gem!

I did the same

[Redler]

Liked orh/collab and I like this, too! Great tune and performing. Once again, it is nice to hear how vocal and lyric can be done on many ways!

[kgopu]

Nice singing and the accompaniment was also very good
cheers
gopu

[andy casson]

Oh Yes! FMG, Hook you have outdone yourself with this, the lyrics and the delivery are superb, and really work with Nick's music- very dark fella!

Andy

[Kenny B]

WOW!!! This is fantastic ... the simple sounds grab you from the start and it just gets better.

Excellent collab guys ... this is what it's all about.   Cool music, great vox and effects ... DIG THIS!!!

kb

[bruno]

Very cool track, excellent tune. Great vox and inspired lyrics Bro :-)
B