[QUOTE=ghostnote;7440221]I find it works better if I’m the loser in the story.
Then what about the no-one's-a-loser-I'm-just-in-love song?
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You always feel your own pain more than someone else’s, as selfish as that may sound. And that makes it more authentic, which makes for a better song.
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I don't write about myself.
I once heard Justin Hayward of Moody Blues interviewed on the once-big New York rock station WNEW.* The DJ asked him who inspired "Nights in White Satin." Hayward said no one.
The DJ pushed. A song that beautiful must've been inspired by
someone, right? Hayward said, "No. It's just a song."
That's what I do. I write songs. They're hardly ever about you or me or a girlfriend or an ex. They're just songs. The few that are about an actual person are the terrrible ones. That's why I don't write many of them.
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And I like to toss in a little rueful irony, too, if possible - it kinda removes some of the depression.
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Heh heh. Yeah. This is the Age of Snark, isn't it? For me,
songwriting removes depression. The content doesn't matter.
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I’m not so good at happy love songs - lost love songs I can do much better.
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There are lots of happy love songs. Actually, that's one of the things I can't pull off. Think of "Here, There, and Everywhere," "Good Day, Sunshine," "My Cheri Amour," "Never Gonna Let Her Go," or "That's the Way She Feels About You."
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* The one Harry Chapin made fun of in his song about WOLD.