When somebody says, "Good song!" do you unconsciously take that to mean "Good person"?
It's something we songwriters do sometimes. Without realizing it, we start identifying so strongly with our songs, that when we don't receive the affirmation we seek for them, we see it as a rejection of ourselves.
Writing a song is about framing your values, fears, hopes, loves and dreams in a three-minute microcosm. Like life, our songs include light and darkness, highs and lows, moving passages and boring ones. They're full of tension and resolution. And eventually every song ends.
When well-rendered, songs are such lovely mirrors of the whole of Creation, we might mistake them for more than they are.
But they are only pieces of the Whole.
A song--or even a group of songs, an album, a body of work--is only a small, imperfect representation of everything we are.
When we see that, we can start to offer our songs more freely...without so much weighty expectation.
Re-orienting ourselves to see our songs in proper perspective can seem, in a way, anti-climactic. After all, it's thrilling to write a "good song" (which is to say, a well-rendered and faithful rendering of the beauty of All of Life).
But it is the All of Life that truly matters.
4 comments:
Well said Lynn. I've printed this off and will add it to my song writing inspiration and thoughts collection.
Thank you.
Thank you for this beautifully written post. Every song does seem like it's too small a container to fit everything I'd like in -- to explain everything, but as you said, they are just little pieces of a whole after all...would have to save the rest for another song.^^
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