Originally Posted by David Snyder
Herb,

I gave you my thoughts in the Nashville songwriters meeting this month and I guess I'll stick to that.

As I said then I love the potential of this song and I think some really wonderful things are going on.

To me the piano playing is beautiful.

I think the lyrics are on the right track for sure, and for sync music there is a fine line between lyrics that don't make any sense and lyrics that make too much sense.

To a certain extent they should be kind of vague, for sync.

So these are the kind of lyrics that don't really make sense or "shine" outside of the context of the music that they are wedded to, but that's okay, because that's the way it's supposed to be, for this type of ethereal sync song.

I think I told you that I spent a long evening many years ago with a guy who was at that time one of the most famous rock and roll singer songwriters on the planet. While we were sitting on the hood of a car he told me that the most important thing that you need to know is that if it's rock and roll, the lyrics can't make sense.

And that the moment you start trying to make sense, you kill the rock and roll. I thought that was pretty funny but I think he has a good point.

In developing the lyric I think that the more you can work with the struggle that's going on and the way people are struggling, and striving and trying to deal with their struggles, the more powerful the lyrics will be, but that's just a matter of trying your hand at a couple of different approaches, so that you really bring out the poignant aspect of the human struggle element.

But I think that all the work will be worth the effort, because I think you're really on to something with this one.

I can see you crafting something here that could be genuinely and authentically powerful.

David. Thanks for that. I'm trying not to overthink it. If I overthink, and it's easy to do, it will ruin it.
Thanks for the compliment on my piano playing skills. It's where I started with music and kind of got away from it when I got a guitar. It's relaxing and challenging to get back to it.

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