Side Projects

I'm writing a cool song today!

I often wonder how other people write songs.  Me, I write them in my car.  Or in the shower.  Mostly in my car, as I shower with embarrassing rarity.

In contrast, I drive all the time since I live in LA.

I don't really know what it's about.  I think it's gonna be called "side projects" because it started on the way to a gig when I came up with the line "all my side projects have side projects...".  It's a reference to the way I fill my time with infinite creative persuits.  The song goes on from there. "All my good days have bad times." Etc. Cheery, I know.

I'd show the full lyrics here, but rock lyrics always read as being either trite, or silly, or both.  It's in the gestalt, you know?  They require melody and kickass guitars to make sense.

What I came up with this morning was the chorus, which was an independant idea on it's own.  Then I thought, "hey, I'm writing a song that doesn't have a chorus yet." So I slapped them together in my head and it worked. In my head. Haven't played it on guitar yet in any serious way.

I like putting independent bits together in my songs. I think it keeps them from being formulaic, though I'm currently leaning on a crutch of country/rock twang that I'd like to shake. It's a good system though, and often it only takes a good drive with the radio off to find something that feels right. Or a shower.

But who has the time for that?