write a whole song

I wrote a verse, and had a partial idea for a chorus; I liked it, thought it was catchy, what little I had was heartfelt, funny, intelligent, everything I hope for in my songs of course – so why is it that when I tried to play the same song a little while ago it suddenly sounded stupid to me? Am I insane? I just don’t understand it. This is what seems to happen lately. Maybe it’s because I go through this process alone, that is by myself; perhaps if I try working on this when I’m playing with other musicians it will make a difference. I just don’t know what’s different about song writing now and songwriting ten years ago (when I was more prolific and had some success); the only thing I can think of that was different was that back then there were other musicians involved… regardless of how much input they had or did not have, there were always other people there in a supportive position; maybe even just by their presence and positive attitude toward my songwriting it encouraged me enough to complete my song ideas. I don’t know what else it could be. For the last few years I’ve had a really hard time finishing any of the new songs I start. I’ve been able to rework some of my old songs, but writing anything new has been next to impossible.

since I’ve written a complete song; in fact when I think of it the last song I wrote that was complete was an idea that came to me as a whole song; one of those rare experiences, rare for me at least, when the entire song, verse and chorus, came to me one day as I sat down with my guitar. I’m going to buy a Martin guitar soon, and when I do I’m hoping I can sit down and write an entire song – or at LEAST finish one of my partially written songs so that I can have one more complete song.