2026 Competition Entry:
Candy Hearts & Valentines by Chique Geek
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Title: Candy Hearts and Valentines
(12 string guitar joined by acoustic then electric lead and subtle strings)
Verse 1
From the first day that I saw you
In an instant from afar
Like lightning in a bottle
My heart a humble jar
So easily to shatter
If just a passer by
So fearful of rejection
How then to even try
Pre-Chorus
Could we join as one
Not fight fate alone
Together being brave
Build love that’s etched in stone
Chorus
If I could write a love song
To share just how I feel
From candy hearts and Valentines
To love that’s grown so real
Should stars burn into ashes
The sky forgets its blue
My song echoes forever
Leading back to you
Leading back to you
Verse 2
Measuring a lifetime
In doubts and masquerades
To find each other’s truth
In worlds of dark charades
To seek a perfect ending
A journey so sublime
Worlds crumble into nothing
Just need your hand in mine
Pre-Chorus
Could we join as one
Not fight fate alone
Together being brave
Build love that’s etched in stone
Chorus
If I could write a love song
To share just how I feel
From candy hearts and Valentines
To love that’s grown so real
Should stars burn into ashes
The sky forgets its blue
My song echoes forever
Leading back to you
Leading back to you
Bridge
Not needing to be fearless
Championed by love
No dangers to defeat us
Life mates like pure white doves
(drums rise, strings swell)
Final Chorus
Should worlds fall into shadows
Should nights feel too unkind
To be your safe tomorrow
To be my last sunrise
Should rebirth be our fortune
Stage set for a new show
To choose you in every lifetime
In every life I’ll know
In every life we’ll know
Outro
If all we have is here and now
A one act play so true
We’ll defy our destiny
As simply me and you
As simply me and you
Simply me and you
(12 string guitar joined by acoustic then electric lead and subtle strings)
Verse 1
From the first day that I saw you
In an instant from afar
Like lightning in a bottle
My heart a humble jar
So easily to shatter
If just a passer by
So fearful of rejection
How then to even try
Pre-Chorus
Could we join as one
Not fight fate alone
Together being brave
Build love that’s etched in stone
Chorus
If I could write a love song
To share just how I feel
From candy hearts and Valentines
To love that’s grown so real
Should stars burn into ashes
The sky forgets its blue
My song echoes forever
Leading back to you
Leading back to you
Verse 2
Measuring a lifetime
In doubts and masquerades
To find each other’s truth
In worlds of dark charades
To seek a perfect ending
A journey so sublime
Worlds crumble into nothing
Just need your hand in mine
Pre-Chorus
Could we join as one
Not fight fate alone
Together being brave
Build love that’s etched in stone
Chorus
If I could write a love song
To share just how I feel
From candy hearts and Valentines
To love that’s grown so real
Should stars burn into ashes
The sky forgets its blue
My song echoes forever
Leading back to you
Leading back to you
Bridge
Not needing to be fearless
Championed by love
No dangers to defeat us
Life mates like pure white doves
(drums rise, strings swell)
Final Chorus
Should worlds fall into shadows
Should nights feel too unkind
To be your safe tomorrow
To be my last sunrise
Should rebirth be our fortune
Stage set for a new show
To choose you in every lifetime
In every life I’ll know
In every life we’ll know
Outro
If all we have is here and now
A one act play so true
We’ll defy our destiny
As simply me and you
As simply me and you
Simply me and you
Author
Bio
I am a cancer researcher/professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology in the Division of Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center. I am also a singer songwriter who has written, mixed, mastered and produced many albums under two nom de plums “MDA Songwriter” and “Chique Geek”. I have released more than 20 albums under these combined names just for the fulfillment in doing so. It is difficult to say which I love to do more, curing cancer or producing music to serve the greater good. Stay Chique Ya’ll.
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