A song comes to us in a variety of ways. It can be the product of a gripping newscast, a thought-provoking story, or it simply shows up in a dream. We’ve found the best time to attempt writing a song is in the morning when our minds are fresh.
Sometimes it’s the words that come first, sometimes it’s the music. For us, it’s always helped to have an extensive list of potential song titles on the back burner. Once we develop a melody or mood, we then find a title which we think best fits that particular melody. Then, we can begin to tell our story.
Have you ever thought of writing a song? Do you have a story that might be easier to tell if put to music? Is your story about you or someone else? Perhaps it’s about a place, or a specific space in time. What’s your subject thinking or feeling in this particular moment? Are these emotions difficult to express in words? These are all things we think about when writing a new song. Putting our thoughts to music often answers questions we’ve been pondering. Someone once said, “Where words fail, music speaks”. It could have been Hans Cristian Andersen. But for us, truer words were never spoken.