Elton John used to say he'd get a mess of Bernie Taupin's lyrics and he'd head to the piano. If he didn't come up with a melody first or second time through the song was tossed.

Wally Wood, the brilliant comic book artist used to keep a swipe file of his and other artists work. Very often you can see bits of the same backgrounds in sveral comics. He often would turn a planet upside down and paste it on another page. There! another world.

Some times it's necessary to do that with lyrics. Maybe the song doesn't become a song. Look at unused lines as donated organs.

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