New music always inspires me to write some of my own. I'd really like to have enough free time to write more often. But maybe it's not a matter of not having time... maybe I just need to make some.
I started a songwriting journal... whenever I find myself in a highly elevated emotional state, I'll write my thoughts in it. Often these blurbs are dripping with emotion - unfiltered, raw and unpredictable. I feel this is the material that songs are made of. Only problem is I don't know where to start!
I do think though, that from now on... when I find myself in these states, I won't be so hasty in trying to rationalize my thoughts and get back down to earth. I may just ride the wave of emotion until I get some really vivid word pictures from it... it's likely there will be tears. But I'd like to think that a song draft with tear stains is about as genuine as you can get.
// So I'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes
All that I know is I don't know
How to be something you miss...
I never thought we'd ever last kiss //
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