Admit it. You’ve thought of some song titles you’d like to pass along to Weird Al.
Don’t Stop Cashiering (encouragement for store clerks)
Man In The Freezer (a dark true crime tale)
Livin’ On A Spare (a pop music chronicle about car trouble)
And it would be pretty easy to write the lyrics to these songs.
How so? Because the melodies for these songs are ingrained in our heads. So if you were to write new lyrics to hit songs like these, your brain would automatically start generating ideas within the cadence and syllables and rhyme scheme. You get to sidestep the extra energy it takes to consider melody and lyrics at the same time.
Once you are locked into the melody (really ruminating on it and letting it sink deeper into your mind) and you know what the point of the lyrics are, you can flow. You can say what you want to say much more easily when your mind is operating from within the melody.
The ease with which we can do some creative things (i.e. come up with silly songs) gives us clues about the tools we can use for the harder work.
