Writing a song

Sometimes it’s something you work at, you have an Idea in your head, a theme, a tune - something specific. Those are normally the hardest or should I say most frustrating and time consuming, because it feels like it takes you forever to get to the point you want to be at. Other times it just happens in that moment when your sitting there at your piano, or in my case with your guitar in hand with a handy piece of paper and pencil; nearby (I really need to get a Dictaphone or something).
That’s what happened last weekend - there are very few songs I’ve written in half an hour, but this was one of them (Maybe Angels - written further down the page was another)-I wish I could explain the feeling that comes with writing one of these songs. It’s almost like a channeling that something more than you has decided to use you as the conduit for this melody and if you don’t grasp it in that moment it’ll be gone forever.
I promise you this happens too, I’ve had it before when I’ve had the song in my head and had to go and do something else and have not been able to grasp it again. The words flow, like wine amongst friends -you don’t have to work too hard to find the ones that express what you’re trying to say. Then suddenly it’s over and you have in your hand scribbled on a bit of paper, and you’re left sitting there wondering what just happened to you. That’s when you need to commit it to memory, because if you leave it to long the melody will leave you, you’ll have the words and the chords scratched down, but unless you can write music (which I can’t) the fundamental melody that binds it all together will leave you.
After all of this if you’re playing it with a band, it’s going to change and shift around those who play it as all songs do, but essentially it’s there.
I Cant’ post the words yet as I haven’t committed them to memory, but if you’re at our next gig, listen out for it, it’s called “Stand Up” (for now at least).
Keep well all
Love and peace
Liam