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Remember, the SSG was originally set up as a place to PRACTISE songwriting once a week, or at least bring it to the fore... you get a song out of it, all well and good. It might be a keeper, it might not - but hopefully you'll learn by writing, and from your experience of writing. The assignment might not completely captivate you - but sometimes it might take you in a slightly different direction, like PBee's song this week. It's not fulfilling the LETTER of the assignment - but it's capturing the spirit of the assignment, and therefore the spirit of the SSG and its intention - to get you to write.

I really don't mind if you get sidetracked and wander off a little from the intended topic - it's good to have guidelines, but it's even better to write a song, and if you have to bend those guidelines, well - fair enough, bend away. This isn't a schoolroom, it's more of a co-operative - and hell, I'm not qualified to teach anyway.

Going back to the purpose of the SSG for a moment....it's changed a little over the last few years. Still the same in many ways - read topic, write song, discuss....but these days there are far more completed songs, seems as if almost every song comes with a demo. There was very little of that in "the old days" - very few mp3's posted. I suppose you could say it (the SSG) is evolving rather than changing - who knows where we'll be, say, five years from now? I know a few people - David, Kathy and John, for instance - regularly play quite a few songs that were born in this forum, and I've got a few myself that I play regularly. PBee's another one who plays live regularly and uses some of his SSG songs in his set list. I'd love to see everybody get a song out every week, and an MP3 to go with it - but even if you don't, the writing, and the reading and critiquing, will stand you in good stead.

Like I said, I'm just here to try and pique a little interest, provide a little inspiration if possible. My writing inspiration this week came from out of left field....my stimulation came from an argument elsewhere, I dashed down a couple of lines that came into my head and before I knew it I'd got a new song. It's not perfect yet, it isn't even finished to MY satisfaction - but I'm working on it, and hopefully by the time I've finished the music and altered the lyrics here and there, it'll be worth keeping. That's my ultimate aim when I start writing a song - to have something worth recording when I've finished. It doesn't always pan out that way, but hey, at least I'm trying! (Yeah, I know, VERY trying at times!)

Paul, sorry for sidetracking your thread a little - anyone cares to discuss this further, maybe we can carry it on in the "feedback" thread?

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-336008 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335995 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:30:35 +0000
Good to see you back in the saddle. I've had a dry year for writing this year.
No reflection on Vic's assignments. He's doing a great job I've just been more
involved in other things.

Very Zen approach to the assignment.

:note1: :note1: :note1:

John]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Celt https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335995 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335970 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:01:28 +0000 read assignment) is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules". For me right now, its more important just to write something.

Having said that I did forget about the being dead bit :wink: . As far as having a conversation with God, if one accepts the premise that God is omnipresent and lives in each and every one of us, this conversation is in fact with God, but I agree certainly not the form of God as a personified deity by western religions, but to our subjects mind God none the less. For me your lyrics read more like one person telling another we are all connected in a universal "Oneness".... Yes, in this case the "Oneness" should be interpreted as God.

KR,
thanks mate,
But it seems to me
We're all infected
Yeah, you and me
We are all connected I did struggle a bit with that bridge, the “infected” is to allude to our Godliness regardless of who we are. You could also read that as saying “were all sinners”.

Cheers
Paul]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335970 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335932 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:21:41 +0000 Two suggestions to consider . . .

But it seems to me
We're all infected
Yeah, you and me
We are all connected

affected instead of infected (or reflected)

And
I see in every one of us a piece of the pie
don't even necessarily see eye to eye

maybe

I see in every one of us a piece of the pie
even when not necessarily seeing eye to eye

Glad to see you submitting more . . . your muse must be feeling frisky.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335932 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335929 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:00:52 +0000
Good start :D It's all a bit cryptic to me and I am having a hard time seeing the connection with the topic for the week..."You die and meet God. What are you going to say to him?"

WEEK 39 "imagine you've just passed on - and you're face to face with the devil...what are you going to say to him?"
WEEK 40 "...Well, last week we let the Devil...here's your chance to put your point of view to YOUR deity of choice....."

....For me your lyrics read more like one person telling another we are all connected in a universal "Oneness"....not necessarily a conversation with a deity after you have died....if I missed something, I am open to clarification :wink:
this makes 2 songs in 2 weeks, that's got to be good :D To me, that is the more important aspect than how closely the song is related to the weekly topic. :wink:

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-335929 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-36823 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:09:53 +0000

Necessarily
© Copyright 2009 Paul Brady

Looking at you, looking at me
I see what I want to see, if you know I mean
I don't mean to minimize those things you believe
But I see the creator is not necessarily

Necessarily, necessarily the same as you perceive

You could look at life as if it's some kind of test
Everybody trying to outdo the rest
And grace is a commodity as long as you observe
The rules and regulations you'll get what you deserve

Necessarily, necessarily what you deserve

But it seems to me
We're all infected
Yeah, you and me
We are all connected

Looking at you, looking at me
I see the creator, if you know what I mean
I see in every one of us a piece of the pie
don't even necessarily see eye to eye
But looking at you looking at me
Gives me hope for eternity
And pieces of pie those pieces of soul
Necessarily make us part of the whole

Necessarily, necessarily part of the whole
Yeah those pieces of pie those pieces of soul
Necessarily make us part of the whole]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg7-week40-necessarily/#post-36823