Q:  11.29.18  11:09 am If you think it would be fun, would you care to explain long long long journey?
A: came up with the chorus first. then i had to find verses. actually found the verse melody before any lyrics. knowing the chorus but not knowing the verse that starts the song is a very strange mystery to solve sometimes. writing forwards you can just ask what comes next. but figuring out what came before (writing backwards) is really strange. but after finding the verse melody, i started searching for lyrics, and 'remember' seemed to work best. 'i wonder if you remember' ... 'i remember the morning ...' 'do you remember the morning you said that it's over' ... i'm just reading what i wrote down in that writing session. these were all brainstormed lines for the first verse before i found the real thing. 'i wonder if you remember the place that we came from' . none of these are good enough .... ' i remember the first time i said something intelligent' ... 'i remember the moment i left where i came from ' ... 'i remember the first thing i said when i got here' ... There are some slightly more interesting ones but i can't tell you them. 'i'm slipping under the blanket where nobody sees me' i don't know if that was supposed to be for the first line or for another line but it fits the same melody. i can see the post card lyric floating around here. actually took quite a bit of brainstorming before the actual first line came to me (moment that my dreams were broken) and i very distinctively knew that had to be it. and then from there it's just coming up with lines are good enough. keep coming up with lines until one of them seems good enough. then keep going. etc. that's about all there is to it. and if you don't have a deadline you will never think anything is good enough, and if you have a deadline you still won't think it's good enough but that will force you to come up with something that is almost good enough maybe