I spent the day working on a new song. I was trying to find just the right notes to capture the emotions I wanted to convey. I knew what the final line of the chorus would say, but that marriage between lyric and melody is a tricky thing to get just right. Shall we just say that most of the day the lyrics and melodies that manifest themselves were “dating” each other. No quickie Chapel of the Bells marriage today…but I think I see light at the end of the songwriting tunnel. Before the week’s out there could be an engagement. During this period I’ll introduce the couple to close friends and see how they act together in public. If all goes well I’ll invite a voice that’s not mine to sing them back to me and by then I’ll know. I don’t understand how it is that I “know” these things, but I trust that I will.
So that’s where my joy has been this day. Matchmaking melodies and lyrics.
Adds a whole new dimension to the concept of e-harmony doesn’t it?
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I wish I had the musical capability to complete the writing that I do. Sadly most of my words remain bachelors/bachelorettes. (No reality show required. I’d like my words to maintain their dignity-ewww snippy aren’t I?)
yep. I know that dance. And it happens in so many media – color and line, concept and texture – how anybody ever produces anything – or settles on a marriage – I do not know.
hehehe your comment about e-harmony made me laugh. before we met my husband tried an online dating service (I believe it was in fact e-harmony but I’m not sure on that.) and in the entire world of e-harmony subscribers he only had one match in the Polynesian Islands.
he was always supposed to be mine.