I've had about three songs that took twenty minutes to write because that's about as fast as I could put pen to paper. Like Paul McCartney's "Yesterday", they came whole.
Another, I wrote the first verse and returned to finish it four years later. When I did sit down to finish it though, it unfolded like a table cloth which had been sitting on the shelf.
A few months ago, I set aside two hours to write, twice in one week and was successful to some degree with one and am very pleased with the second. Interestingly enough, the first was done on a thread here. The song was about the loss of a loved one and holding on to our "Yesterdays". Something like that. Scrump was an enthusiastic participant. It saddens me to think of him gone and I have never returned to that thread since he left us.
Jeeze, I've lost me way.
The second song "Highway of Tears" will be the title for my next album and has now been recorded.
I have, sitting in a "Word" file, yet another song which I have yet to even sing and I know it will work for me. The process in this case though, is unlike any other I have written. I made the song up in my head over the course of a month or so and carried it around until I had the time to write it. I hardly had to think about the words as I put them down.
Other songs have taken days or weeks to compose and others I'm not really sure of because I've found them in dusty old boxes, messy desk drawers and various other places but don't remember writing the half of them.
Who the heck do we write for anyway?
Some time back in the Nineties, I used to sit and scribble odd lines that may be useful to me later, down on scraps of paper. The paper is long gone but I think I still carry many of the lines around.
Does that sound familiar to you Jerry?