2025 Competition Entry:

Running Start by Chris Scian

Genre

Rock

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Lead vocals / acoustic guitar: Chris Scian
Lead guitar / bass / organ / backing vocals: Tim Bovaconti
Drums / tambourine / shaker: Kyle Sullivan
Produced by Tim Bovaconti @ Tim’s Garage 2023

Description

Inspired by a young couple I’d known who were on the verge of getting married…the woman’s increasing drug use and the man’s musical ambitions inevitably resulted in him exiting the relationship…she was ultimately the worse for it, with people soon wondering as to her whereabouts.

Bio

Chris is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter with a repertoire of original songs in a “bluesy alt-rock/power pop” vein. “Beelzebub Kiss (Instrumental)” was featured in the Canadian short horror film, Fishbowl (2022). Chris alternates between performing solo acoustically, in an acoustic duo, and as the frontman for North Star 90, a ‘90s rock covers band who performed at the CNE in Toronto in 2024.

Lyrics

Two planets aligned, they were ready to climb
That ladder stretching to the sky
With a love so young as the night is long
Well a running start can sure run wild

Oh, she had a little taste she couldn’t shake
She took it just a little too far
It was all he could take ’til he made his break
He left her in the dark
Down with a broken heart
She came down with a broken heart

Now he pushed on, he was playing his song
Driving on a rock and roll dream
But she couldn’t stay strong, with the chords all wrong
So she packed away to try to get clean

Oh, she had a little taste she couldn’t shake
She took it just a little too far
It was all he could take ’til he made his break
He left her in the dark
Down with a broken heart
She came down with a broken heart

Well, all her friends said she’d pull through
In familiar phrase and fair-weather rhyme
No one heard from her, they hadn’t a clue
They all suspected she might’ve let go the line

Two planets aligned, they were ready to climb
That ladder stretching to the sky
With a love so young as the night is long
Well a running start can sure run wild

Oh, she had a little taste she couldn’t shake
On her breaks at the back of the bar
It was all he could take, he might’ve made a mistake
Left her in the dark
Down with a broken heart
She came down with a broken heart
She came down from a running start

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