Song Writing

I've played guitar and written songs since I was little.

It always amazes me the poetic license I can take when writing lyrics. I can write the stupidest thing and somehow it seems to fit the song in some odd way.

I think I outdid myself today with the line "I saw a baby dancing in the rain."

Think about that for a moment and get a good visual in your head of a baby dancing in the rain. Picture that stupid dancing baby that was an internet craze about 10 years ago standing on your porch gyrating. In the rain.

Yeah. It's pretty fucked up isn't it? I'd be running for a gun if something like that appeared on my doorstep. I wouldn't ask questions, I'd just shoot the goddamn thing.

BOOM!

Dancing baby blood, guts, and internal organs all over the yard.

And no one would blame me.

Which brings me back to the line in my song. The whole dancing baby thing has created a horrible visual in my head. I think I'll change the line to "I saw you and that baby so I shot both of you. In the rain."

That's Shakespearean shit right there. It's got all the elements for a classic...drama (Someone standing on my doorstep), comedy (Blowing the shit out of some homeless waif standing on my doorstep claiming the baby is mine. Ok, maybe that's only funny to me), tragedy...err I don't actually see any tragedy here. A dead baby and some woman that I may or may not of had relationships with earlier are splattered all over the front porch.

Nope, no tragedy here at all.

S'cuse me while I get the Lysol and a garden hose.