If I sing with written words they go right out of my head so I have to keep looking at them. And I find it wrecks the sense of the song. I find I'm just singing the words.

I'll do it with a new one maybe while I'm trying to break it in. But if I stick to relying on the written words I'll never move on to the stage where I know the words so I don't think about them at all, and that's the stage where the words get to mean something maybe. And change if they need to, if it's one of my own songs.