You keep writing the next song because you just don’t know what the next one could be.
Does your guitar have a Blackbird in it?
Does your piano have a Piano Man in it?
Does your computer have a What Do You Mean in it?
It might. In fact, if you believe it does, it probably does…but it might not be till after the next ten songs you write, or the next hundred, or more.
The tiresome journey of the NEXT song. Will you keep getting back in the saddle? Again and again and again?
The pursuit is romantic and elusive, mesmerizing and blinding.
But when you’re sitting on the edge or your bed, or in your office, or on a cold chair in a music row writing room, you will suddenly feel that the song you’re working on is not simply the next song…it’s THE song.
The feeling that that song will give you in that moment, that gift, is everything.
You get to have that moment, that one intimate moment where only you know you have THAT song. You hold the biggest secret in the world. And the world is going to be thrilled when they find out.
Then as the story goes, the song gets tracked and mixed and mastered and released… you have to give that moment and song back to the universe.
You keep writing the next song because you just don’t know what the next one could be.
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