I Have been writing this one song for three years. It isn't rocket science and I am not attempting a rock opera. So it's not some sort of arrogant artist bullshit. It's just that sometimes when I sit down to write, ideas just flow. My soul is laid bare and I just float along the path. Some times its poems some times its angry rants some times its awkward blog posts and sometimes it's a song. I have to say that songs are by far my favorite thing to write. I have an additional method for communication. I would damn near equate the human vocal pattern to a form of body language. Stresses and volume differences and slight timing changes all in concert. and alive, each time I perform the wrong it will be different. I will make an error in this or that or the other and will swing by without too much ass kicking but essentially the song will be different each time. not a facsimile of the original. There is so much freedom to manipulate a song to change a strum or a chord variant or any number of other things that you are free to use to your message.
And for me it's pure. I've never sat down to write a type of song, or to mimic a type of music. I just hit the damn strings and the creative juices start to lubricate the mind enough to allow me to try things to feel things to make merry music mayhap? So sometimes I don't know what the song is about, and because I can't break the mental block on it I can't complete its creation.
So the song is called starting over, for obvious reasons. I try to express that even though I may not know the message I am still trying to convey something.... and sometimes I just have to sit and wait and be non confrontational. I can't believe i have been writing this for three years and have just come to understand its purpose for me in life. I think that music like all other products of creativity an outcome of necessity. Something in me needed to grasp this message of hands off tough love type shit. This one's for you Jim.
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