Forbidden Love

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    Poem Commentary

    Another song written for a songwriters challenge. This challenge was to write a song about forbidden love. I chose to write about the Amish belief that if you marry outside the belief, you can be shunned. to get a feel, the verses are in 4/4 and the chorus and bridge are in 3/4 to give it a dancing feel.

    Forbidden Love

     V 1

    As they drove down the tree lined lane
    Everything had appeared just the same
    Back when simple life was all that she knew
    All the days were long but the wants were few
    She remembered

    Build 1

    Past the horse with it's little black carriage
    Why would anyone think that a marriage
    should be

    Chorus

    Forbidden Love, She went away
    And found the man whose love made her sway
    To a tune that is known to those that have grown
    To Love

    V 2

    Now the feelings are strained and different
    She drifts back to the days when she spent
    Time with them
    Mealtimes are no longer be close family times
    For the shunning is strict It's then that she finds
    That she'll miss them

    Build 2

    Why is it that something sent down from above's
    not allowd by the people she loves
    Must it be

    Chorus

    Forbidden Love, She went away
    And found the man whose love made her sway
    To a tune that is known to those that have grown
    To Love

    Bridge

    Now forever her life will be
    Seperate from theirs
    Though she knows in her heart
    That she's still in their prayers
    But she'll never regret her decision
    No she'll never regret her decision
    To be

    Final Chorus

    In Forbidden Love, She went away way
    And found the man whose love made her sway
    To a tune that is known to those that have grown
    To Love
    Forbidden Love, She went her way
    And found the man whose love made her sway
    To a tune that is known to those that have grown
    To Love

    Copyrite  Michael Faltyn 2008

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    Mareann commented on Forbidden Love

    10-22-2009

    Absolutely beautiful music to my ears. This song is well written, and I enjoyed it emmensely. Thank you for sharing, Mareann http://mareannspoetry.ning.com
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    Charlie23 commented on Forbidden Love

    08-27-2009

    I enjoyed this write! I try to imagine it being sung to me. I'm not so familier with writing music, do you also write the chords and notes as it would be applied to the verses?
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    icarus0580

    08/27/2009

    Thank you, I appreciate your comments. I don't have the chords written down persay, but you can hear the finished product at this link: http://community.ascap.com/_Forbidden-Love/audio/245647/27521.html

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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