The Most Frustrating Thing in the World

Is to have a song lyric appear whole in my head while I'm driving... and by the time I pull over, and find the cards and the pencil, it's gone....

... evaporated... and to still have the tag line of it haunt me, tease me, like a single silken thread of hair from a muse that's long gone to history.

It's been a couple of decades since I wrote lyrics for a band that didn't really go anywhere, but... it's so not like poetry (more like verbal sudoku for me) or prose (which I can march workmanlike through and just go back to fix)... songs are like butterflies... fragile, whole with the music of it, or not at all.

The Most Frustrating Thing in the World

Is to have a song lyric appear whole in my head while I'm driving... and by the time I pull over, and find the cards and the pencil, it's gone....

... evaporated... and to still have the tag line of it haunt me, tease me, like a single silken thread of hair from a muse that's long gone to history.

It's been a couple of decades since I wrote lyrics for a band that didn't really go anywhere, but... it's so not like poetry (more like verbal sudoku for me) or prose (which I can march workmanlike through and just go back to fix)... songs are like butterflies... fragile, whole with the music of it, or not at all.

5 am Train

The boys and I are taking a train out of Denver tomorrow morning for a three-day visit to Glennwood Springs. So we have to be up and out at 5:30 in the morning. Whoof.

I have no clue if I'll have access while I'm gone, so I'll be slower than usual. But it should be a good break, and there are real, natural hot springs that folks can go soak in. So I should have an experience that I've wanted for a while anyway. AND it's snowing up there, so... it should be fun.

I'm downing Airbourne like there's no tomorrow, maybe I'll get better if not *well*. *laughs*

5 am Train

The boys and I are taking a train out of Denver tomorrow morning for a three-day visit to Glennwood Springs. So we have to be up and out at 5:30 in the morning. Whoof.

I have no clue if I'll have access while I'm gone, so I'll be slower than usual. But it should be a good break, and there are real, natural hot springs that folks can go soak in. So I should have an experience that I've wanted for a while anyway. AND it's snowing up there, so... it should be fun.

I'm downing Airbourne like there's no tomorrow, maybe I'll get better if not *well*. *laughs*