In round one of SpinTunes 16, I did a song based around a scene in a movie rather than from a book and I remember feeling as if there was some disappointment that more of us did movies than books from some of the judges. So, a bit later, for the Song Fight prompt "Mythical Creature," I did a song from a book (Edith Nesbit's Book of Dragons). After doing that song, the thought crossed my mind that I might do a song for each of the stories in the book. Casting around for a topic for this challenge, I revisited that thought.
This song started out being based on the story "The Deliverers of their Country," but it turned into its own thing pretty quickly. In the story, a tiny dragon flies into a young girl's eye. But the dragon is safely removed and is merely a harbinger of larger dragons on the horizon. There is no gestalt flying eyeball entity in the book. That just showed up out of nowhere and took over (just like in the song).
The SpinTunes 18 round two challange was: "Escape the Grid: Write a song that makes creative use of one or more tempo changes."
