Wrote a song for my dead friend the other day.
Nothing like a good old death to get the juices flowing.
Trouble is, those songs are usually crap.
"Old Shep"....
Ahem..
Worked on it again the next day, I knew it wasn't a keeper as such, but it was
ok. Probably allright for the drunken wake that will inevitably ensue (count me in
)..Bugger was, even though it wasn't half bad, and neither half-good, the bloody opening line was exactly like a song I had just finished. Ok from years back, but it was the last one I did. I would have thought I would have remembered.
I'm going with it. It's working for now. I'm hoping divine inspiration will strike and I can hit another note or at least a transition to another note so it is not exactly the same. I mean, it's not like I'm selling the things to competing boy bands - says cheeky upstart Harry to cheeky comeback Robbie - Hey, those three opening notes are f******* identical to our three opening notes.
So it is not so much of a dilemma as a 'doh' moment. The rest of the song is ok, but I'm just wondering if this is indicative of a loss of the old juices that have been flowing so freely lately. I don't suffer from writer's block - more writer's overflow - in the form of a sewerage pipe that has just burst and there is *****... oh bejeebus you get the picture...
It's been good while it lasted. I'm not going to touch it for a week or two now just in case. I mean there are only so many notes in a scale and picking a chord from that scale narrows your options even further. I'm no Liberace.
Please Lord, I don't want it to end this way. I reckon it's better to have no ideas at all than end up repeating yourself. I'm not Rod Stewart ffs!
Shoot me like you would a crippled horse if this becomes a habit.
