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Thread #150815 Message #3516833
Posted By: BobKnight
19-May-13 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Advice to all singer songwriters
Subject: RE: Advice to all singer songwriters
Of course your experiences in life come through in your songs, everybody looks at the world through their own experiences and perspective, but I don't write about me, or things I've done.
However, that doesn't mean my experiences are totally isolated. If you can communicate a shared and common experience in your songs, then people will react well to them.
For example, Garth Brooks sang, "Sometimes late at night, I lie awake and watch her sleeping." In songwriting talks I often give this as a kind of negative example of an idea I could never have come up with since it's totally outside my experience, explaining that since I wear glasses, I take them off when I go to bed, and therefore can't see a damn thing. :)