Our Best Song

2024.12.10

Good morning, that wonderful way.

Again.

Abe's eating. I'm over to the keys. Guess I'll go back for a bit.

Morning has a little extra pep in its step the past couple days.

Comfort is the thing. Especially in journal entries. So, keys it is.

Pleasantries again!

How's it going?

Dog fed? Coffee brewed? Doing the day?

You got this.
You definitely got this one!
Exclamation point worthy day.
Go get 'em sunshine, time to shine.

It's tough to get meaning in spectacle, but we try. The best of us do, at least.

Poets had to grab guitars and stage crews to get heard half a century ago.

I love rock and roll, but there's more to a poem than a microphone melody.

The words in your head as you read ought to be enough of a song to keep you listening.

That's a good poem. Head-voice don't skip the track; I like this one.
Ought to be all writing.

You know a great singer when you hear them. There's a distinction, something singular in their voice.

You know them when you hear them.

The same with writing.

"He has a great voice, a strong one."
We say about some writers.
"You know it's him right away. No one else sounds like that."

Pop songs and poetry, prose and press play rock and roll tracks have that, the best ones do.

It's integrity of voice.

You get better practicing Bach, learning Jimi Hendrix riffs, but the idea is to get your own style, to grow the best way to express you.

Cover songs aren't the original, but they can be original when you bring your own style to it.

You can learn to write like Shakespeare. But no matter how close you get it's going to be awful because you are not Shakespeare. Not that you don't have his linguistic ability, that you are not him.

He sang his song. It sounded best that way. Yours does not. No two people are the same, so their best means of expression differ.

This means word choice, too.

We can use the same equipment. Keyboard keys and microphones, but it's your voice conveying the words, not William's.

No one taught Shakespeare how to be Shakespeare. No one can teach you how to be you.

We all must find our own way to sing our best song.

Take care, sing your best you and have a better day.