Repetition is key

A lot of songs have phrases and/or words repeated throughout them, so this song I’m writing will be no different.

In fact, using the same phrase will pad the song out a bit, and make it easier to write.

I just need to write the phrases that I intend to repeat.

But before I do that, I need to get the first few lines written, so I can say that I’ve actually started writing the song… I said in yesterday’s post that I want to start at the beginning, so that is where I’m going to begin.

And the song is about the journey I’m on writing this song.

And my deadline for getting the song written is Thursday.

And I’ve waffled on for so long now, I haven’t even written the first word.

Sigh.

Ah.

Sigh.

My first word will be ‘sigh’!

And we’re off! First word written… let me continue…

Sigh.
Word after word is written. Deleted.
I feel depleted.
I haven’t even started, and I’m feeling defeated.
Cheated. I’ve not succeeded…

Hang on a minute… I want to write a traditional song, not a rap. Let me begin again.

Sigh.
Stopping and starting

No.

Sigh.
Words on a page just get…

No.

Sigh.
As I struggle to write
The words put up a fight…

No. No. No.

Maybe it’s the sigh that’s wrong. If it begins with a sigh, that’s as though we in the here and now. I’m looking back on the journey, so it would have began with a sigh.

I’ll begin with that:

It began with a sigh
As I struggled to write
The beginning to this very piece

Ooh… I’m getting something coming through!

It began with a sigh
As I asked why, oh why
Would I choose to do something like this

Hehehe. I’m liking the flow to this.

It began with a sigh
As I typed and I cried
These words just won’t flow together

I always seem to write my rhymes in this pattern though, but never mind. I can change how it flows as the song goes on.

It began with a sigh
As I looked to the sky
And thought just do it!
It’s now or never

I think that’s the beginning bit done and dusted:

It began with a sigh
As I struggled to write
The beginning to this very piece
It began with a sigh
As I asked why, oh why
Would I choose to do something like this
It began with a sigh
As I typed and I cried
These words just won’t flow together
It began with a sigh
As I looked to the sky
And thought just do it!
It’s now or never

I think there should be some dramatic music here, with drums and trumpets and things. The above can be quite gentle and relaxed, but the chorus, which I’ll write tomorrow, needs to provide the contrast and the diversion to the gentleness. And the repetition.