Darlene

The FIRST VERSE I wrote - and the first (and last) verse it also will be - goes:

no excitement, neither fun
that was life to her
nothing to look forward to
inside something stirred

It's rhyming scheme is X A X A instead of A B A B as in my dummy lyrics. The rhyming pattern of the dummy lyrics actually was A B A B X B for a complete verse of six lines, now it will be X A X A X A throughout, i.e. somewhat simpler.

My first notes for the second verse were:

drawn by the bright city lights
drawn by adventure

Yet I wanted the second line to rhyme with the fourth and sixth. Since I could not find any viable rhyme for "adventure", neither in the online rhyming dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com/ nor in my good old printed Penguin Rhyming Dictionary, I rephrased the lines.

SECOND VERSE:

bein' drawn by some unknown force
and bright city lights
she had packed some of her things
and left home at night
she would find her way, she would
try to hitch a ride

I think of "bein'" being pronouced like it had only one syllable.

THIRD VERSE:

she had kissed her past Goodbye
and her childhood days
she would sparkle, she would shine
she would never sway
nothing could make her come back
she'd go all the way

So far, so good. But now the bridge that I'd written before wouldn't really match any longer:

all days seemed to be the same
her mind seemed to go insane

That would mean going back in time to a time before the story I'm currently telling begins - as might fit into an intro or the very first verse. The first line actually does say the same as the newly written first verse:

no excitement, neither fun
that was life to her

versus

all days seemed to be the same

The bottom line being that I need a new bridge!

My first try went:

all her dreams would soon come true
what she'd begun she'd follow through

Yet in this version the second line would simply repeat what I already said in the second verse:

she would never sway
nothing could make her come back
she'd go all the way

Preferably, the bridge should add some new aspect. Therefore, I searched my mind for alternatives to replace "what she'd begun she'd follow through" (which had an extra syllable anyway). First I tried:

her share of luck was overdue

... somehow I still wasn't happy. The phrase "out of the blue" had popped up in my mind before, so I tried:

...
her share of luck out of the blue

As I see it, this would add a pinch of irony, i.e. it would add some new aspect, indeed, so now the BRIDGE does read:

all her dreams would soon come true
her share of luck out of the blue

DONE! You'll find the complete lyrics on my lyrics pages sometime soon - and the song on my SoundClick pages as well. I'll probably call the song "Darlene".