The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37877   Message #530200
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Aug-01 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: Do songs have to make perfect sense?
Subject: RE: Do songs have to make perfect sense?
"I prefer songs that eventually make some sort of sense."

Well, if they are good songs they will eventually make some sort of sense. It might not be the sort of sense that the writer thought he or she was making. I've written songs, and only quite some time later made sense of them, and realised they were saying things I hadn't had in mind at the time I was writing it, and maybe tweaked the words to bring it out more clearly.

For example, when I wrote this one I had no idea it was about the peace proccess in Northern Ireland (and here is Áine singing it, I hope.