How do you create? Do you see it, hear it and then create it? Or do you work without any idea of where you are going to end up?
I find I work both ways. I've written songs for many many years.
I started writing music when I was a musician in Boston in the late 80's. I remember I was inspired after watching Danny Kaye in the movie, "The Court Jester." I wrote my first rock tune, "Jester's Part" shortly after seeing it. The song is about a woman escaping from an abusive man. I was not in an abusive situation at the time. I was and still am married to my darling husband Doug. Who knows where this idea came from. Actually, now that I think about it, I shot an ad campaign for a battered woman's shelter and they plastered my face on a billboard. You should have seen the look on my husband's face when we drove by it! Anyway, here's where I started:
Jester's Part
"See my life as it slips from out your fingertips.
I will watch as the smile starts to fade from your lips.
I had loved you deep within my broken heart.
Let me see how it feels when you play the jester's part."
One member of the band had supplied music. It was not in any musical order. I chose what piece of music was the verse and what was the chorus. After getting the metaphor using the knight in shining armor the song wrote itself.
"King used Jester who now knows she is a Queen
Held aloft by Knight's arms she is taken to her dream
Left alone in your world, your rotting cold domain
You've got nothing left but memories of my pain"
"Can you sing for me? Dance? Can you play?
Can you laugh? Can you cry? Can you make my day?
Can't you see I'm in love with another world?
And it's yours that I'm leaving today... forever."
More later...
