That is very interesting Tangmo.

I started the thread because I was interested in how other people work, knowing that not everyone works the same, nor do they need to, nor are they supposed to, of course.

There is a pretty funny Rolling Stones recording I heard off of a live album that recorded the sessions when they were writing the song Miss You. It started out with Billy Preston and Mick Jagger just jamming and Mick Jagger was just babbling incoherent nonsense into the microphone forever until he finally started singing fragments of the words that appear in the song as it exists now. ".....and, ugh....I miss you!"

I remember laughing really hard when I heard that because that's kind of how I write. I just can't write without jamming.

So I'll just sit there and jam away on the piano or guitar or whatever forever and then finally some words start coming out of my mouth that seem like they would make a good hook and then it kind of takes off from there.

Not saying that this is how it should be done, but it never really works for me to not have some kind of musical groove first to write the lyrics to.

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