Don, there are many resources to help spark your thoughts on this. There was a thread about a month ago that addressed this. Don't miss an opportunity to take the tried and true country music lyric writing clever twists or sideways view of idioms and so forth. I just listened to a relatively new Allison Krauss and Union Station CD I'm borrowing from the Library where one of the lines that is memorable from one of the songs goes: Every silver lining always seems to have a cloud.
There's all kinds of idioms and cliches and what not that you can play with in this way now and then.

Here's one that I just thought up to give an example.

Momma's been in traction these 6 weeks past.
My feet fall where they may; always find the crack.

Have fun with it, don't be afraid to use unconventional tools. Here's a website that is associated with the february album writing month challenge that are some tools that can help to spark thoughts. http://muse.fawm.org

Download the VersePerfect freeware app - and when you get stuck on a word, take a look at the poetry examples that VersePerfect references that include words in your existing lyric. It also has a great rhyming dictionary.

Pauses are also o.k., like a great break in a song, they have their place as well.

Try all kinds of forms. Try a refrain line only song, etc.

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