Deckman,

I always had the worst problem memorizing songs I'd written -- versus traditional songs, which I generally picked up and retained easily.

I always figured it was something to do with the fact that my songs were somehow still fluid in my mind ... indeterminate ... they never achieved fixed form. Or something like that. Whereas I took other songs as a given, mine never seemed finished.

That seems close to what you were saying. It never got better. I always had to practice my own stuff twice as hard. And that was annoying, you know, because I got tired of my own stuff about ten times quicker.

Weird, huh?

Bob