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Learning From
This month, I’d like to wisdom about the human
review a songwriting condition ….. let’s make
concept that has worked up an imaginary one--
for countless hitmakers ”You can’t finish the Job
of the past, and is so til you start” .... less than
simple and logical that genius, but it will serve.
you can use it when
you’re stuck, when you If that’s our strong line
don’t feel like starting, or (arguable, perhaps),
just need sharpening or we’ll need a set up line.
polishing of an idea you Turning to the rhyming
started with that has lost dictionary, we find
its lustre. Blues, R&B “heart” (maybe steering
and Motown writers used us to a cliche love song
this formula, sometimes right off the bat?) ....
instinctively, sometimes fart (only if we’re writing
in a very calculated for South Park) .... go
manner. Let’s throw out kart ( a stretch) .....
some titles: You Don’t smart (maybe?) ..... how
Miss Your Water, Til Your about we run with “art”
Well Runs Dry…... Born (you write YOUR song!)
Under A Bad Sign ….. I .... so that suggests:
Second That Emotion ….. “Success is a science
You Can’t Judge A Book not an art, You can’t fin-
By Looking at the Cover ish a job until you start”
…. Poppa Was A Rolling (assuming we don’t think
Stone. See the idea? that’s complete dreck)
With a title that’s almost .... how would we set
a proverb, the song may THAT up?
not write itself, but it
certainly steers the ship “I’m not sure of much,
towards safe harbor! the old man said. But
success is more a
Let’s be more specific. science than an art, Get
What if we start by this one thing through
presenting the listener your empty head, You
with our central clever can’t finish a job until
insight, our nugget of you start”
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