I recommend not writing about silly things unless you are really attracted to that sort of song. If you are, proceed with vigor. If not, you will probably find that the best songs are about primal things, love, shipwrecks, coal mining disasters; but often they are also about pretty places, especialy about pretty girls in pretty places, like Rose of Mooncoin, the Star of Logy Bay etc. I wouldn't worry too much about being trite..that is half the trick. Probably the other half is not to be completely trite...like making a new chocolate cake recipe...if you keep to the basic structure and get creative it might be great..if you add too many odd things it might end up odd, but chances are someone will still like it...mg