November: Time Disappears
Down to the wire once again, but this one is actually finished at the wire. I started it on Wednesday. I went to my trusty binder of potential lyrics and found several that I thought I might use. Chose some lyrics that were rather odd, rather philosophical, and which I have no memory of writing. I worked it quite quickly into four verses, and then wrote a short chorus to be the unifying theme. Strange, it's the third song that I've written within the last year that uses "on and on" as lyrics. Does this have any deep significance? Ultimately, this song seems like it's about death, sort of. Well, winter is coming, as is the winter of my life. I certainly didn't sit down and say, hmmm, I think I'll write a song about death. Strange how these things come from the subconscious mind and manifest as something that needed to be said. I started off on piano, but switched to guitar, which suited the plaintive feeling I was looking for. A new key for me, E minor,...