Weird song writing experience

[misterbill]

I was walking through the yard one day and these words and melody came to me, so I went in the house and wrote it all down, including the melody.

A couple days later, I was watching a movie on TV, and this guy says to a woman that he is having dinner with-I really want to get to know you. I have never had this happen to me, but I heard it as music. Somehow I heard him singing it to her, even though he was saying it to her.

I jumped out of my chair and threw on my headphones I had hooked up to my keyboard and wrote down the words and the melody. The words and melody that I had written down a couple of days before was in the same key, and the words and melody matched perfectly to make the melody for the chorus I had just written down.

The really weird part was that the character in song started to take on his own personality. I was writing down what he was saying. He was writing a love letter to some girl who probably didn’t even know he existed, and he is saying things to her like “does it give you a thrill to love a liar?” I’m yelling at him saying “You can’t say that to her! She is going to think you are a moron.”

I really love this song. It starts out with a really cool 2 beat guitar triplet. It has got broken chords on the keyboard that goes along well with the electric guitar. I can just picture this love sick guy sitting in his dorm room watching this girl walk by who has no idea who he is. I can just picture her reading this love letter and laughing asking who the heck is he? I used to sit and listen to it over and over for hours. NO ONE besides me, has ever liked this song at all. Really funny.

 

[MMensch]

So, are you going to let us hear it then?

 

[misterbill]

So, are you going to let us hear it then?

I would consider that if I had a better recording. I don't even give people my CD's, I don't want people to hear it. I have read that there is nothing worse that you can do than give out bad material, and I have spent a lot of money making bad material. LOL

 

[cantthinkofname]

hi misterbill, i've had some very wierd song writing experiences too, kinda like yours (but too embarrassed to tell them lol). cool story, i think it would be very cool to hear your song i'm the same as you tho, i am worried about sharing any of my songs, because i think they are just too rotten, but i still want to hear yours tho

 

[moresound]

The sign of pure genius, the way all songs should be written!! Hear it in your head - sometimes in a full complete form. Always seams to come right out of nowhere.

 

[MMensch]

The sign of pure genius, the way all songs should be written!! Hear it in your head - sometimes in a full complete form. Always seams to come right out of nowhere.

That only happened to me once, unfortunately, some five years ago. I was playing a videogame trying to beat a score, and first there came some lyrics, and then most of the rest of the song. A mindblowing experience, I had it sketched out in ModPlug in 15 minutes, but like I said, the only one I've had.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

The sign of pure genius, the way all songs should be written!! Hear it in your head - sometimes in a full complete form. Always seams to come right out of nowhere.

Or Synasthesia!

I suppose the line between genius and mental disorder is often quite fine though.