The Most Frustrating Thing in the World

[liralen]

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.

Comments

[flit.livejournal.com]

Do you have anything already that can record? Keep it in the car!

I have a lovely mental image of the muse, too.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes! I should have just sung it into my celphone as it has a recorder in it... next time. I'll remember next time...

*grins*

*hugs you*

[aruarian-dancer.livejournal.com]

That happened all the time when I choreographed dances and still happens when I do improv at the piano. Although I have near photographic memory, my auditory memory is not the best... XD

[liralen.livejournal.com]

XDD

Wow. Neat that you get that many chances at it...

I need to get back to playing the piano again... that would probably help. Wow... good reminder! Thank you!

[aruarian-dancer.livejournal.com]

^_^;

[nosferatu-blue.livejournal.com]

Ack, omg, I hate when that happens!
I don't know if you're the same way, but I can usually only get thoughts like that out with a pen&paper/keyboard, since speaking them aloud makes them disappear faster.

My sympathies. The taunting hint of what might have been will fade. There will be other lyrics *hugs*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Exactly!! I can't talk about stories, either, because some part of my brain goes, "Well, I've told that story, now I don't need to write it anymore" Or something like that. *laughs*

*hugs back* There will be. Whew.

[annieroo2.livejournal.com]

I've never had that happen to me with lyrics, but recently it's been like a plague with me writing scenes in my head while driving the kiddies or while showering and by the time I have a chance to write it out, it's all gone up in a wisp of smoke. So, I totally sympathize.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ouch... Yeah... exactly that.

You have my sympathies as well. I hope you get to catch some of those again!!