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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Almost Finished the Last Song

Well, I finally got the chorus for my last song, station #13. It's not THE last song, but it is the last one I still had to write. I knew from the very beginning I wanted the title to be "In Mary's Arms" - it came to me in a flash, yet I've been working on it for weeks and at different times have written 10 different choruses - each of them was not very good. I finally decided I couldn't find a rhyme for "arms" that would work and would have to pick a different hook altogether - even after putting it in places where it didn't have to rhyme. I couldn't just scratch the song, I NEED 14 songs, so I tried again on another airline (this time to Massachusetts). Suddenly, I got my "rhyme" and correct phrasing from scripture. the whole chorus came together in 1/2 hour. What a relief. Now I'm agonizing over just the right melody. I want it to be different, so sad. I want everone to fall in love over Our Lady all over again, to feel her pain, to really cry for her. I hope THAT doesn't take me another 2 months.

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