I’ve been reading a bit of poetry lately, paticularly Lord Byron and Author Rimbaud (they both inlfunced Dylan). I’m trying to see if I can learn from the rythmic ebb and flow of poetry to help me with my own lyrics.
Also (like Dylan) I’ve also been trying to learn from listening to traditional folk songs, somtimes old recordings or covers by contempary indie bands and such. I find these songs facinating because these songs are timeless and it’s hard to wrte songs with that weid sense of mystery nowadays. The is what music writers refer to as “The Old Weird America” how do you write songs about flowers growing out of peoples brains, and such weirdness?
anyways my notebook of imcompleate ideals is kinda turning into a notebook of half finished songs.