Keep them coming
So I’ve finished my new song “Busy Life” - awesome! I’m pretty happy with it, the first part is on my previous post and the rest - well you’ll just have to come along to one of my gigs and hear it! Sounding great with Doug’s accompaniment too.
I also wrote a final verse to a song I started (and thought I finished) in February 2008, so it’s the longest it’s taken me to write a song yet - almost 23 months in the making! It’s called “You got me”, some of you might have heard it already (it’s the valentine one). So it’s nice to have some closure on that, in more ways than one, so now I’m ready to record it for you all to hear.
So here I am, feeling good about myself for finishing a couple of songs. I’ve got some great gigs coming up, so it will be good to gauge the response to my new stuff. BUT I can’t stop here! I have to keep writing, keep the momentum, and give people more reasons to come and see me. So the next question is: What is my next song going to be about?
One idea was to write about my complete inability to speak clearly - I tend to speak really fast, with a mumble, and of course in a kiwi accent. So basically, no one understands me. E-NUN-CI-ATE, Stephen… So could be kinda funny, do you think?
On the other hand, my friend Naomi was saying I should write more love songs. Yuck, love? But everyone has had enough of love songs, surely! And like I’ve said, I don’t have an awful lot of inspiration right now. But should that stop me? At risk of completely ripping off John Mayer’s “Love song for no one”, I could write a song from the perspective of “when I meet you, this is what it’ll feel like”. Hmm. I guess the genre(s) of music I write tend to suit love-lyrics, and let’s be honest, we can all relate to this kind of stuff in one way or another. I’m not sure yet, what do you reckon?
Stephen