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Been spending months organizing thousands of pages of notes. And your website popped up again on one of them. That’s what led me here. Good luck to you. On your songwriting and “retirement” from blogging about philosophy (I read your previous post as well). You might like my http://www.ecoideaman.com/bookmark-this-page page on my website. On it, I include a few links to podcasts pertaining to songwriting. I’m always finding more things to add to that page. Going through my aforementioned notes, I just came across another gem. An Omnia song titled “Earth Warrior.” It has over 12 million views on YouTube. I’m not surprised. It’s actually quite good. Again, good luck to you! May the song be with you.
I wrote a new song yesterday called “A Moment With You”. I might put some stuff on Youtube myself.
Great. Looking forward to hearing some of your songs (if you do that). I often give Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” as a perfect illustration of how you don’t necessarily need much. That song is just six really short, simple lines, plus one metaphor. That’s it! And it’s been covered by over 150 artists.
You are quite right; I usually need to restrict my vocabulary. You do need a catchy line, however. Gary Glitter’s Rock n’ Roll must be the simplest of all, consisting only of “Hey” much repeated.