A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
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A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.
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