Originally Posted By: Icelander
I wanted just "the paint on my fully constructed house", whereas the lyric partner expected to have more leave way to "tear down (or add) to the building" to further complete said "house" alongside the paintwork


That is why I don't look to do it. I know what I want. I have a sound in my head and I can't explain it to you other than to say I'll know when I hear it. I know the story I am trying to tell way better than you do.

Where I would need collaborative input is more like "I am a horrible guitar player. Can you give me 8 bars right there at 54?" but the creative process has to be all me or I don't feel like it's my song.

Then get into the longshot aspect of "What if the song gets picked up and hits big?" If I wrote 2 verses and a chorus, and you wrote the bridge, who makes then money? Is that written into a contract somewhere? Without my verses and chorus, is it a song? Without your bridge, is it a song? That would have to all be written on paper before I'd get involved with it. The time you think it is not necessary, it will somehow manage to become necessary.