D-2 Oldie But A Goodie

Here's a little back ground on a tune on the last record called "Maybe I'm Crazy."

Depending on my mood or maybe the topic of the song or how I'm feeling at the time I'm trying to write or whatever, getting lyrics onto the page come either super fast or take weeks to get out. I've got a few songs I've been trying to get the right lyrics for that at over a year old in fact. I like the melodies a lot and I think the topic I'm going for is groovy but can't figure out the right way to say them so I just have to sit on the song and wait it out until the right thing is said I guess. I never want to put anything out there that I don't feel is completely structured or not quite hitting the right spots so I just have to keep the thoughts going to make it happen on the records to come.

With "Maybe I'm Crazy" the lyrics seemed to come out almost too quickly. I started writing the song and had the first verse spouted out in a few minutes. Then I had another verse and another verse, I think I ended up with close to five full verses I could pick and choose from before ever having the chorus out. That is a thing that regularly happens to me.

When I got into the studio we recorded a version of the song with I think "3 and a half-ish" verses and the song ended up being close to 6 minutes long so I had to bail on half of one verse and ended up writing a different third verse all together in the studio and that's what went down when the record button got pushed. Every song that ended up (and pretty much every song I've ever written except maybe two) I've made a solid effort to make sure the lyrics were mine and mine alone. I know that could come out sounding really awful but I only do it that way because I usually write lyrics with a certain image in my head as if I'm reading a book or seeing a movie and picturing different scenes, and I feel if Im the only one writing the lyrics hopefully I can put the image in my head on paper, then onto the recording and maybe give whoever is listening a shot at having some sort of image or movie in their head as well.

Here are a few shots of how "Maybe I'm Crazy" looked on paper. You'l be able to read one of the verses that didn't make it onto the record but maybe someday at an acoustic show or something I'll play an extended version or something so I can try and sneak it all in... :-) I don't know...