Q: I'm working on a song right now. I wrote it a long time ago (well not so long if we're using geological scale) and never really payed any attention to it, but one time one musician heard it's unfinished version and said that it is a very great song, and a very lame performance. As I am clinically crazy, I started to work on it from the beginning and saw it's "true" potential. It's a song about trying to escape from reality by going, walking far away. Walking home, searching home.  But I can't make it right. Right now it is almost 8 minutes long, and boring for everybody but me. Kind mister, please advice me. How to make those 8 minutes The Eight Minutes?
A: you are probably asking the wrong person. i have a general rule not to make songs longer than 4 minutes. for something longer, i think it needs visual elements, maybe some story telling, many more things outside of just being a song. that's just what i've learned from experience. that doesn't mean you can't make a longer song with audio only, but it's not something i have any advice for. my first advice would make it much more than a song and use visual and story telling elements