2025 Competition Lyrics Entry:

Tophill by Robert Caddick

Lyrics

Tophill
Push back the shutters, pull the windows wide
Breathe in the air, feast your eyes
Intoxicate your senses
She built her house here, up on the hill
Left the ocean waves crashing down below

Rooster crow, mango tree, this is where hearts run free
Sun up, sun down, fireflies in the night sky
Heat still rising, sweat runs down, you ain’t neither lost nor found
Just two kites flying high

Fortune teller told her long time
She would find peace, it was written in the lines
On a house on a hill, green shuttered windows
Now here she is back where it begun, drinking the full moon rain out in the daylight sun
After the 3 times flowering of the Poui tree

Rooster crow, mango tree, this is where hearts run free
Sun up, sun down fireflies in the night sky
Heat still rising, sweat runs down, you ain’t neither lost nor found
Just two kites flying high

Flying High – sharpness of tamarind
Flying High – sugar apple sweet
Flying High – puncheon won’t you tell me, is it real or just a dream?

To the horizon every shade of blue. Azure, cobalt, ocean turquoise and teal
Beneath it natures every shade of green
Bird of Paradise, Bougainvillea in bloom, Tophill your heart’s beating in tune ..with mine
You’re every dream I ever had

Rooster crow, mango tree, this is where hearts run free
Sun up, sun down fireflies in the night sky
Heat still rising, sweat runs down, you ain’t neither lost nor found
Just two kites flying high

Bio

I have been writing, recording and performing my songs for 45 years albeit as an amateur. Songwriting is what I learned guitar as a teenager to enable me to do and it is something I will continue to do to the end of my days.

Co-author(s)

Lyrics Competition Results

Emotional Impact:
11/ 20
Technical Skill:
15/ 20
Memorability:
8/ 20
Storytelling:
16/ 20
Imagery:
8/ 20
Total Score:
58/ 100
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