This is so poignant, full of yearning. Love the lines: "Do you remember your invisible ball Even with my glasses, I could catch ‘em all" The chorus just lingers.... I'm downloading this

Great topic -- I love songs are this era in life, when everything is happening for the first time. Audacious rhyme: "class / Odysseus". Great how you bring Odysseus into the classroom with "stuff my ears with cotton." I like the melody / chord on the second "It's unlikely" in the chorus. And a Mister Pibb reference! Overall, a touching slice of young life.

Really enjoyed this one. Twice. Just so very nice to listen to. Both the song and you.

Nice engaging melody and gentle guitar accompaniment. I enjoyed this one.

Right in the feels, wow. Still not quite clear on the concept of a morph, but I gotta love a song that mentions Mr. Pibb and cooties in the same verse, then goes on to rhyme cooties with movies - and still manages to stay poignant. Really excellent lyrics, and the yearning in your voice pulls it all together.

I really like this.

I flew my spaceship over to this song so I can abduct it 😸. I think the morphing challenge is interesting and I took a peak at some of the other songs. I love the melody and there is a sense of heartbreak when you sing into the it unlikely line. Beautiful vocals and really love the melody throughout bopping along with the guitar! Thanks for sending me this way! 👽

I love what you've done with the morph lyrics. I like the almost stalkerish take on things. Great write and a brilliant end to the morph. :-)

beautiful storytelling in these lyrics; some of my favorite lyrics i've seen this fawm. really wonderful setting of the text too—it feels very genuine and touching. thanks for sharing it with us :)

Love the minor treatment to this story.. This has so many great lyrics, each holding their own whit and charm. I really enjoyed the repetition in the chorus of "I've made up my mind", and your vocal delivery throughout is subtly haunting and wonderful. Great song!

Definitely has a classic murder ballad feel that has an interesting marriage with the lyrics. Like Becky, I keep waiting to find out that the reason it's unlikely is because she has him buried in the backyard! 😄

Some really nice phrasing on this. It's fun to play it as a guitar solo. I'm not much of a shredder (or singer), so I appreciate melodies that find a hooky way to present a couple notes.

I love these lyrics! So relatable and clever: "We both appreciate a good reception." Brilliant! Also, great insight into that time in life. I think your music and vocal fit the message perfectly. I can see why you highlighted this song. I think it's one of your best.

Terrific lyrics! I love the witty scene-setting for the high-school-crush story, and you have some great lines - "one page past the Sirens" "We both appreciate a good reception" and "at recess when we still believed in cooties" are my favorites. @andygetch's song has certainly traveled a long way!

Good lyric Nancy, Sorry I was unable to write with you this season. I checked in a couple of times but your dance card was full.

Love love love this! I especially dig the clever line “we both appreciate a good reception”. Stellar job!!

Oh man this is a great end to the morph! Really nice job on this!

I really like the loping beat of this, the vocal tone drips life experience.

Some fabulously original lyrics too that really work as imagery and rhythm

"play the clarinet at the fifty-yard line" "Cross-breed eating’s not allowed" (neat internal rhymes too!)

Enjoyed it a lot!

I love the slant rhyme of its unlikely that you’ll ask me. Alludes to maybe it’s symbolic or whatever you want to call it!

Such clever lyrics and a wholly original take on the pining for the unobtainable (although if he could have read your thoughts, he couldn't have resisted!).

Great story! It never really gives us the answer, so we have to decide for ourselves if she got to go out with her guy, but hearing all the thoughts going on in her head about what she's thinking is absolutely delightful. Great write!

I love your rhymes! This is so charming! The minor mood is so fitting to the anguish of youth. Great song!

Damn. Banger! First off the instrumentation is just perfect. It has this uneasy, rambling pace about it that fits the theme so well. Then the open verse is just chef's kiss with the mention of Odysseus, or maybe I'm just a nerd, but it sets up my favorite verse in the whole song. "When it’s your turn, you read words wrong It’s somehow like those sirens song I don’t plan to stuff my ears with cotton". This one is too much, right to my soul. I'm not even going to go on about the chorus, because you know how good it it is. Inspiring, I need to write stuff like this. I also really like the treatment on the last bars of the song, Hit me up with that version with clarinet if you ever get it in place, sounds very intriguing.

Amazing journey #morph1 has gone on. This is a fitting conclusion to wonderful and creative work done by all of us. Happy to have been part of the chain. I really enjoyed your singing, so emotional and engaging.

Sounds great, I really like the sort of eastern european flavor of the music. Beautiful melody. Love the line "cross-breed eating's not allowed" - really got me thinking back to those silly high school cliques.

cross-breed eating lolz! great concrete story and I love your delivery - the yearning, defiance, humour in the face of adversity… wonderful!