Better yet, Shambles... What is it that you admire in particular songs... what lines are most moving to you, or most humorous. Usually on these threads, you end up getting lists. I hear you. How about a line like "the arc of a love affair?" for example. That really stirs my imagination. In songwriting, because you have so few lines to work with they have to carry far more emotion, and sometimes, visual imagery than words need to in a novel, or even a short story.

I always find it amusing that some of the songs that I've written that I consider throw-aways have lasted so long. I recently got an e-mail from a long lost friend from the early sixties, wanting the words to a song I wrote back then. I didn't have the words written down and hadn't sung it in years, so I had to track down another friend from those days who is still singing the song, and thinks that it's a fine song. I don't get it. But someone else did. Maybe the song wasn't written for me. Just by me.

Jerry