5/6 FOB - Ends 1st Jan '08

Ok. Should be alot (x2!) easier now! lol

This is the fifth (getting tired yet?) of six contests. All using titles taken from the three Fall Out Boy albums.
I will be judging each contest separately, so there will be winners and HM's who will receive comments and then there will be an overall top three when all the contests are done who will win the biggest prizes.

Now you don't have to enter all six contests to win the top prize, (although you will have a bigger chance) You just have to blow me away with your talent. =)

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Each contest will have twenty titles. The first two will be from the first album, the second two from the second album and the last two from the third album. So i will be using a lot of titles to choose from =)

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Not a lot of rules..

1) Try not to swear, it's allowed but no over the top cursing.
2) Try to keep profanity to a minimum. I don't mind it but don't write a porno, lol
3) If you write a specific format, explain it when you're finished
4) Can be old or new, i don't mind but impress me =)
5) Max of three poems per person and a max of three poets per titles (towards the end, this may be increased so keep an eye out if a title you like is full)
6) Have fun.

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Titles:

* Seasons change but people don't *FULL*
- The Queen of Spades - Reserved
- xPinkDizzyTeacupx - Reserved
- HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG - Reserved

* I found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes *FULL*
- aDORKable x3 - Reserved
- Britt - Done
- Prophecies In Kodak - Reserved

* The only thing I haven't done yet is die
- kaida clover - Done
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* Don't pretend you ever forgot about me
- aDORKable x3 - Reserved
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* I wrote the gospel on giving up
- Beyond Repair - Done
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* We're painting your trash gold while you sleep
- Britt - Done
- NyellMoonlight - Reserved
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* This ain't a scene
- Jay - Done
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* The lies I weave are oh so intricate *FULL*
- Britt - Reserved
- HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG - Reserved
- NyellMoonlight - Reserved

* Last years wishes are this years apologies
- xPinkDizzyTeacupx - Reserved
- HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG - Reserved
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* We're the new face of failure, prettier and younger
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* The road outside my house is paved with good intentions
- ReproducedByIntelligence - Done
- JustSayGoodbye - Reserved
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* Kiss teeth stained red from a sour bottle
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* Your someone who knows someone who knows someone I once knew
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* I could write it better than you ever felt it
- Prophecies In Kodak - Reserved
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* Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills
- Sandra D - Done
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* One foot in your bedroom and one foot out the door
- The Devils Own Bitch - Reserved
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* Tongues on the sockets of electric dreams
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* Thanks for the memories even though they weren't so great
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* He tastes like you only sweeter
- The Queen of Spades - Reserved
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* Get me out of my mind and get you out of those clothes
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Deadline for the these contests is 1st January so plenty of time!
Good luck everyone and have fun!

*Gem*

Don't Pretend you ever forgot about me
I found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes

please

<3

We're painting your trash gold while you sleep

:)

Seasons change but people don't
&
He tastes like you only sweeter

Last year's wishes are this year's apologies, seasons change but people don't

* The road outside my house is paved with good intentions

Thanks. (:

Last years wishes are this years apologies,
We're the new face of failure, prettier and younger,
The lies I weave are oh so intricate .

The lies I weave are oh so intricate, please

One foot in your bedroom and one foot out the door, please.

Thanks once again

Josie

* I found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes

* I could write it better than you ever felt it

Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills

please and thank you

I just finished... ill try to get it on after school today.

Sometimes We Take Chances, Sometimes We Take Pills

We always wanna try
We always just break down,
We always end up crying
No Matter who's around.

I tried to trust again,
Just trust someone new.
But I always end up asking,
What if he's like you?

This guy seems so different,
He's not like all the rest.
He leaves me with these feelings,
A pounding in my chest.

I could have spent forever
Crying over you,
Resorting to many things
That I really shouldn't do.

Sometimes we take chances,
Sometimes we take pills,
Sometimes we break hearts,
No matter how much it kills.

~Sandra

The Road Outside My House Is Paved With Good Intentions.

Another one gone before daylight with vodka half mass,
and a fire burning to warm the soul that's still left cold.
Chanting quotes inside the mind ruin this amazing mood,
how cruel the feelings that quarrel within an empty stomach.
Beating at the palish flesh lining what use to be humane.

And, I feel sometimes as if I'll spontaneously combust -
flying in a million different ways and thousands of pieces.
Breaking the thoughts of a role model I once followed,
with such good intentions - but that was broken long ago.
Along with the soul that's still left freezing to ice.

The feelings that I feel I just can't seem to comprehend,
loving the one that broke me way too many times.
Needing, wanting, infatuated with such an evil mess -
it's like I'm him, burning into flames with this anger.
And I can't seem to comprehend, no I just can't comprehend.

The road outside my house is paved with good intentions,
but it's lined with such evil and freezing ice that I can't walk,
I can't breath, I can't look you in the eyes to tell you the truth.
I've lived long enough to know what's what, and I'm telling you now.
I know this is love burning inside my inhumane, frozen soul.

It's churning, it's burning, it's rotting away everything I have.
It's pouring like a volcanic eruption - the tears falling harshly.
It's coming, I can tell you this - It's coming, the feelings within.
And, I feel sometimes as if I'll spontaneously combust into -
a million different ways and thousands of pieces, my darling.

I'm afraid I've done it, now.

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I would like to reserve "the only thing i haven't done yet is die please"... thanks

*I didn't reserve it, but I'm taking it anyway, haha.*

I Wrote the Gospel On Giving Up

By Beyond Repair

When the going gets tough, the tough get going
A motto well known to my father, but something I never bothered
To take to heart or took to really have any meaning
So if you ever need advise from a lazy quitter
Talk to me, not my father, he's still a bit bitter

I wrote the gospel on giving up
The minimal effort just seems like enough
And when you need more from me
Ask someone else cause if you cant see
I'm far from dependable or responsible
Ask me a question most likely I'm unable

Giving up is an art not to be confused with losing
To lose you have to think maybe your on the team that's winning
But all the giver uppers know from experience you better bet
Its over from the begging the other team just doesn't know it yet

The answer to the majority of my problems
Seem to be let other people solve them
Or left them undone because why should I care
About what you think when you stare
Thinking to your self what is his issue
I'm a procrastinator just like you

I wrote the gospel on giving up
The minimal effort just seems like enough
And when you need more from me
Ask someone else cause if you cant see
I'm far from dependable or responsible
Ask me a question most likely I'm unable

I wrote the gospel on giving up
The minimal effort just seems like enough
And when you nee...

*And yes thats how it is supposed to end ;) *

The only thing I haven’t done yet is die

I have seen the real world threw these green demonic eyes
I know its secrets and have seen its harsh dark realities
Experienced its harshest most trying emotions and lived to tell the tales
Fought countless demons and felt the embrace of angels in my arms
Felt the sweet seduction of a lovers lips upon mine
I’ve gazed twice into the eyes of infants upon there birth
Seen the wonders of life and felt them seep inside my soul
I have lost myself within my own self only to be reborn a new
Sacrificed everything and anything for the benefit of others
I’ve put a strangers well being before that of my own
I have taught and learned and still do to this day
Words have left my mouth spoken against injustice and lies
I have lead by example and stood for others when they could not
I have done right and wrong and lived the outcome of both
I loved and hated with all of my mind and heart,
But most of all I have lived
The only thing I haven’t done yet is die…

Kaida clover

All updated now =)

*We're painting your trash gold while you sleep*

Your mind's tricked to believe in conflicted emotions
that sketch traces of fireworks across your blindfolded eyes
so the fragility of those illusions scar imagination
forcing it to trap itself into endless labyrinths.
We're calling for you behind the frozen sights of your acridness.

Self- destruction crawls through hues of triviality,
makes you feel like the irreplaceable cog in the life's machinery
smothers colorful dreams, bribes deceptions
to bath within rising sun-rays, to dance deceivingly.
We're feeding your soul with detailed sweetness.

Sorrowful betrayals replay with shadowed perception,
lost and found sanity inhales rhythm of grayness-
you recolor your mistakes to hide their opaque surface
from the people who plunged brushes into golden tears-
we're painting over the trash under your windows tonight.

We're painting your trash gold while you sleep
Thanks for the memories even though they weren't so great

xx

I want to reserve "I could write it better than you ever felt it" as my third one.

Thanks!

One Foot in Your Bedroom, One Foot Out the Door (Midnight Fling)

"No-strings attached"?
Why didn't you say so from the start?
I could've lived with that.
But you told me a bit late -
My heart has already gotten involved
And you're about to break it.

I never wanted more
Than a part time thing
But you insisted you wanted more.
Yeah, I was dumb for falling for it,
But what was I to do?
My heart had already fallen for you.

"No-strings-attached"
I wish you had said something sooner.
I like the idea of never having
To worry about commitment,
Never worrying about doing things wrong.
It's all just for fun.

And now, lying in your bed,
Your arms wrapped around me,
I know it's time to leave.
Although, I have one foot in your bedroom,
One foot is out the door.
So sleep sweet, my part time fling.

Copyright©JosieWentzel26November2007

The lies I wave are oh so intricate

There's some complex imagery in the words
waved with cinder and fragments of illusions-
I dive into the ocean of raw sorrow and elegance,
swimming through the toxic realizations-
Further and further, so I can discover...

Implements of agony flux down the thoughts...
freezing weakness is chasing my eager thirst
while the heart ticks in honor to unholy tricks;

There's some intricate fabrics colored like the sky
waved with meshes of magenta starry visions-
I drown into the vortexes of climatic catastrophes,
suffocate with letters that hold my precious lies-
Faster and faster, so I can discover who I am.

Don't Pretend You Ever Forgot About Me

I called you up the other day,
I wasn't prepared for what you'd say.
You couldn't talk, you had to go -
It was at that moment, I would know:

All those years of holding out hope;
All those times I just couldn't cope -
Were shattered by your instant goodbye.
I fell to the floor and began to cry.

The tears of anger turned to sad,
As I remember everything we had.
Each laugh, each kiss; each brought joy -
I was some girls, you were my boy.

But all the laughs turned bitter and the kisses were sad -
I wasn't ready to let us be a memory of what we had.
Everything we went through couldn't have brought us to this -
There was definately something there behind each kiss.

Our love was unlike anything I have ever felt,
Your eyes still have a way to make me melt.
I remember the way you'd hold onto me -
Each of them are now a sad memory.

Then you told me something I would never forget,
And I wasted all that time I now regret.
I had one more chance, to kiss you goodbye,
But all I could do was sit there and cry.

Each second of that day has never left my head -
Yet, I can't remember the last words you said.
But it was like a part of me had died -
I've been living my life in kind of a lie.

I never let go, even though I said I would;
I tried so hard but I just never could.
You were my first love, and I gave you my heart;
I told you you'll always have some part.

But when I called you up, you were so distant -
It was like my whole world fell apart in an instant.
When I was with you, there was no where I wanted to be.
Don't Pretend You Ever Forgot About Me.

I could write it better than you ever felt it

Was that electric elation that breaks shadows?
Could it be desire etched on your worm eaten heart?
Remix of distractions replays inside tarnished memories
intensively striving to consume lobes of senselessness...
Oh, I'm not lost... do you expect to see flannel tears
running down my face? Honey, I can surely do better.

I had an unexpected hiatus. I apologize.

I Found The Safest Place To Keep All Our Old Mistakes

The mistakes are scattered all over the floor -
They fell as you slammed out the door.
They feel like shards of sharpened glass,
As they cut my tries to make our relationship last.

You thought that you had found something better,
But the reality of it is, we're better together.
You've held my hand through all the years;
Been the tissue that dried my tears.

Through new life and death, you've been there for me -
Even when we were mad, I called you "Baby."
But you gave up on me, at the drop of the hat;
You left me alone, how do you justify that?

I guess the alcohol did all your talking -
I yelled for you, but you kept walking.
I knew you heard but you didn't care,
I always wondered if you'd ever be there.

You've cut me deep and you've bled me dry,
And all I want to do is sit here and cry.
But I just can't do this anymore,
You're not the boy I once yearned for.

You changed so much when I was replaced with burbon -
You've left me alone to deal with myself, hurting.
Each shot and each glass took you away,
Then I couldn't even understand what you'd say.

You slurred your words and changed your demeanor,
As your drinking got worse, you got meaner.
Your words stung more than any hand could,
That that you did, or even if you would.

But when you slammed the door, something changed,
It was as if something had been rearranged.
I no longer felt I held any ties to you;
It was then that I knew what I had to do.

I locked the good memory of you in my heart -
But freed the bad one and bade it depart.
Everything I had was everything you could take,
I Found The Safest Place To Keep All Our Old Mistakes

Last Years Wishes are this Years Apologies

The hardest thing in life, and the hardest still,
Is watching her slowly grow away from me.
Thirteen came, and relentlessly, I said hello;
But in the back of my mind, I wish I could halt time.
Thinking back to the golden yesteryears,
[Of giggles turning to glares,
Smiles turning to tears,
I love you`s to I hate you`s,
And barbies into teenage boys.]
I knew what was in store, but even though,
I could not let out a word of ill advice.
Thoughts crossed my mind a time or two,
Of things I could say to keep her with me,
But I knew just a little too well now,
How teenage girls want to live their lives.
Watching her peel away from her innocence,
I hit my knees and prayed for help,
But change was on the horizon, it was coming fast,
And I was buckling down for the ride.
If only I could have stopped her hurried feet,
Just for a second, that`s all I needed,
Then I could have told her about this crazy world,
Before she found it out for herself.
Now eighteen and an adult, it is too late to say,
"Baby, just stay home with me today."
Regret washes over my mind, as tears fall,
Because I know, as hard as it is for me to face:
Last years wishes are this years apologies.

-Jenna Elphick
January 31, 2007

** Written from the perspective of my Mother . **