Why I cannot write songs: Get your water-wings on

Why I cannot write songs:

This is a complex issue. I like to think myself a creative person. I mean, sometimes I can come up with ideas that I fashion to be original. They very well may not be. That is not the point though. I will be addressing the abstract, intangible reasons as to why I cannot write songs as opposed to things like, I can't play the piano that well. Those are things you can learn. My real limitations as a songwriter are as follows:

Songwriting takes a certain brashness, a consistent shoot-from-the-hip mentality. If your truly going to spill your soul for the world, you had better not be ashamed of what you have to say or how it's going to sound. This blind confidence, regrettably, is not something I display a large majority of the time.

There is another aspect to songwriting that makes it difficult for me. For a lot of people, songwriting is a bloody process. It takes a lot of sweat and tears for these people who sit down and force themselves to write. Although an entirely valid and often highly successful method for these people, this, I cannot do. I feel as though me forcing myself upon new songs makes them inherently limited. When I sit down and "force" myself to write, nothing comes out. Literally it is writers block of the most sophisticated form. I feel as though each word, no, each letter I write down, must change the world. No song can be written from this disposition. For me, though I'm sure I've just convinced myself of this, I can only fully pursue a new song idea if it comes in a moment of overwhelming inspiration. These moments, again regrettably, are few and far between for me.

So here I lie at a crossroads. Do I force myself to write for the simple reason of just practicing getting my thoughts down on a page? Or can I really not ever writing anything worthwhile that doesn't just come pouring out of my soul? How can I get over my mentality that everything I write has to drop the Pope to his knees in tears? These are questions I still need to explore.

So I suppose the title of this blog is a little misleading. I intend on getting to the bottom of this conundrum, because I desperately want to capture moments in my life in song. Maybe I could write a song about my songwriting predicament...

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