You’ve played these songs a lot. You wrote some of them forever ago, and have moved on from that subject matter. You don’t connect with the tunes. They’re old. Maybe you don’t even like these songs anymore but you are obligated to the fans to play them.
You play them anyway, sing the notes, play the chords, act like you care, clock in, clock out.
You need to find an entry point.
A way back into the song.
You need to be able to go somewhere in your mind that allows you to reconnect with the song. A place, feeling, relationship, a random detail, a random lyric in the song you let trigger you. It doesn’t have to be the same mental space as when you wrote it, or even the same space you accessed the night before.
Find a way to enter in.
If you won’t believe, we won’t believe. If you will believe, we might believe. But we need you to go first.
Finding a way-in is tough night after night after night, song after song after song.
But these are your songs, your offerings, your connection points.
Enter in. Relentlessly find a way in.
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