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It’s finally turning cool(er) out here in Dallas now…a whopping 70 degrees kind of cool. 
October is a beautiful month for this otherwise sweltering city.
I realize it’s been quiet here the past few months…but nevertheless, it’s been a good season for writing! I wrote a new song on *gasp* guitar in late August, and it really only sounds cool on guitar. (Watch out, Van Halen.)
There’s another song I started writing over the summer that had a sweet Coldplay-meets-the-Beatles vibe to it. Like many of my songs, I got through a verse and a chorus before banging my head into that wretched wall known as writer’s block that seems to plague everyone at one time or another. In fact, there are only perhaps 2 or 3 songs that I have ever written in a single day. Most of my music has spanned over months, sometimes even over a year. Usually, the following occurs
- Write a verse and chorus.
- Writer’s block.
- Go over the same verse and chorus over and over and over again, each time hoping that more lyrics will miraculously pour forth.
- They don’t.
- Finally realize that the well is bone-dry and put the song on a shelf, listed as “in da works” in my mental roster of songs.
- Months later, after a bit of growing and refreshing and forgetting all my previous futile attempts, strike water.
- Steps 1-6 may be repeated until the song is completely finished.
- Finish the song, move that baby over to the “DONE” category in the mental roster.
- The peasants rejoice.
- Wash, rinse, repeat.
But back to that song…so I started it in probably early July and then shelved it until a few weeks ago. It’s a song about the first step in any healing process, which involves letting all those emotions out, whether it be by crying, screaming…running over your cheating husband with a car (JUST KIDDING…I don’t condone murder. Or manslaughter)… Anyways…I wrote this song for the people that tend to keep their hurt pent up inside, the ones who hold it all back in the name of being strong…the ones who stuff it down so far that it starts to kill them on the inside. I think I’m going to call it “Let It Go”. The climax comes with a driving instrumental part…a part that I pray and believe the Holy Spirit is going to use to break down walls and help people release. Songs might as well go beyond entertainment and actually be useful…because I know that God certainly works through music (hey, the old testament musicians even prophesied with their instruments! How cool is that?!). So, to sum it up, the actual concept is reminiscent of U2’s “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own” (AMAZING song, by the way) and Switchfoot’s “Let It Go”.
And finally…there’s a new one I just started a few days ago…the working title is “Over Me”. And I think I’m on step 2 and creeping on to step 3…
