write one good song

it is dead and done and was recorded the same day it was written, in front of a hall of folk. and it’s fun and of quality. great

i have approached songwriting from a different angle and as a result, i’ve improved in all aspects—music composition, lyricism, and also poetry. the solution was really simple, i just had to relax. at first i was trying to think of songs as something completely different from poems, like very very rythmic and structured. i’ve since been giving straight-up unmodified poems to a musician i know and he’s turned a few of these poems into songs, and i guess this showed me how a poem, if it’s got a bit of rhythm and such, is capable of being a song, as is. i’ve just relaxed about it. so in a way i’ve accomplished this goal by writing poems at all. and last night i wrote an i-guess-song about home, and it was the first time i knew it’d become a song, so i’ll see later this week if it works to music.

i’ve written so many choruses or last lines or two-or-three good lines… and then i forget them, or forget the tune i had in mind. i have a pile of them. it’s hard to imagine how i would go from this to writing a whole substantial song, beginning and end and all, playable, singable. but it’s fun anyway. sometime soon—when it’s a really good song that has to be written, i’ll figure it out.