Hi Kevin,I would second BR's advice. Keep a notebook. And probably most importantly, quit telling yourself you can't do it. In the first three sent...

As I was reading I found myself singing in a John Prine fashion.I would really like to see where you could go with this.John Thanks, John. John Prin...

Marv,Nothing significant to add. I do love the chorus. The whole theme is akin to a Bob Seger, or Bruce Springsteen ballad. (Feel like a number, Ba...

"...Something that sounds good, and means something"What does this mean? -- Look out for vampires?

I really like the contrast between absence and omnipresence. They are opposites, yet can can and do coexist... <nit-picky-language-warning>"ab...

Jamir -- Thanks for the suggestions. I really like some of the re-worded sections. "tooling" or "toolin' " is an old term for "cruising".Vic -- Rega...

I really like this, Katreich. Particularly the rhyme scheme, ABABCCCD -- the last four lines in each verse just seem to build, build, build, -- then ...

Jamir! -- Great to read your stuff again. I could hear your voice while reading this, and I almost recall when the seed for that "dream within a drea...

Any ideas on a story line to go with this chorus?????('cause or and, or but depending upon the lead in lyric) 'cause I've been missing you for seems l...

Hi Celt,I can definitely hear this in Sonny Terry, or John Lee Hooker's voice! Real well done. I'm a sucker for Delta-soundin' blues anyways, but th...

Marv,Percy was actually a real guy in our town when I was growing up. Maybe that's why those lines "took". Because they were from my experience. I ...

Every time I see a post like yours I think of three people, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. Man.... remember that Sesame Street tune "One ...