That was smart work Praise!

That song we were talking about was on a tape I sent Praise a copy of. I haven't stuck the words on my website yet, but I probably will before long.

I might even stick a RealAudio file of me singing it, now I've more or less worked outb the technology. Here is a first draft to my DIY guide to putting songs on the web using RealAudio - which is primarily there so I can remind myself how it's done, because I forgot the last time I did it, and had to work it out again.

That was thread drift, and I'm trying to think of some way of turning it back into the rightful current of the thread.

Well I suppose one thing is, when you make up a song you normally find (I normally find) that the words keep on altering time and time again before the final version comes; and that's only provisionally final, because songs alter again over time as you sing them.

And if you are lucky enough to make a song that passed into wider circulation, and other people sang it, it'll keep on changing - and if the folk process kicks in, it will turn into another song entirely, or maybe a family of songs. And the later versions can effectively extinguish the earlier versions.

And that's all about how the process of creation involves destruction. Deep down, maybe we're all amoebas.