It would absolutely be only songs I have written. Songs to me are just stories set to music, and nobody can tell my stories from my perspective but me. It would be largely "heavy" feeling music (not heavy as in heavy metal, just thick and somber) and it would probably be a sad score so it would have to be in a minor key. Probably D minor, because as Nigel Tufnel told us, D minor is the saddest of all keys. The songs, being stories of my life, would largely be about the struggles that accompany dealing with the low lows that happen to someone with my personality that has extremely high highs. Just about every song I have ever written was a true story (I don't write "fiction" well though that has been a focus of late - make up stories to write about) and most of them are about having my heart torn out, thrown to the ground, stomped on, then roasted on a spit. In fact several people who bought my CD emailed me and asked me something close to "What HAPPENED to you that you are in such emotional pain in these songs?"

I have always been an extreme over achiever, and as such I find it difficult to satisfy myself. Thus there have been few events in my life that I can call successes. If I won a Grammy, I would say "What? It wasn't unanimous?" If I ran a 2 minute mile I would look to do 1:55 the next time. I could climb Mt Everest and stand at the top and ask "Aren't there any higher mountains?" It can be a VERY difficult life knowing you will never reach a goal.

So yeah, my life's soundtrack would be likely be much like something from Wagner. Big, deliberate, minor, intimidating sounding.

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