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Father Time
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3/23/2016 2:41:23 PM
Ever lose a set of lyrics that mattered to ya?
I had this long epic lyric about my life that I wrote in a hotel one time, misplaced it and found it again. Then I lost it about a year ago and was really bummed. It was on the back of these work papers I had and I was pretty sure I tossed it out in a clean up. Then today while looking for something else I found it again and I'm glad. This time I'm determined to do the song before I lose the pages again.
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Two Silo Complex
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3/23/2016 3:04:42 PM
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Yep some are still lost others I found again. Some I found that I forgot I wrote those are the mind blowing ones that I sit back and look at it and go wow I forgot I even did that.
Once in an argument over what inspired lyrics of certain songs I took and entire note book of lyrics and burned it some of those songs I still wish I had I regretted doing that since the day I did it years ago.
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Richard Scotti
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3/23/2016 7:30:09 PM
I lose a lyric once in a while but I always have a recording of that song and I just transcribe the words from the recording.
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Stoneman
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3/23/2016 10:57:53 PM
Yep me to (what Richard said) I have recordings of songs that I did way back in the 70's. Probably wouldn't redo them though. They were pretty bad. But I have them. I also have a file cabinet full of song lyric sheets that were written long before the PC was invented.
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Hop On Pop
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3/24/2016 4:22:21 AM
I have. And it's a fucking horrible feeling. Like forgetting what you had to say in the middle of a conversation -- but to the nth degree.
Also, when I come up with a lyric in the car, while driving home from work.
I try to always keep a recorder with me for that very reason. Saved a couple of things that way, including one of my favorite lines from one of the best songs that I ever wrote ("We Made It To the Middle"). And that one line, thankfully became the genesis for that song.
It's a dead man's world...
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Jilly
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3/24/2016 10:02:36 AM
When I started songwriting I was amazingly organized, wrote everything in a work book neatly and typed out a copy for recording. I would name and date everything. Unfortunately this went entirely against my nature (impulsive scribbler) and pretty soon I was writing lyrics on any scrap paper lying around. I have lyrics for a song on one side and for a different song on the reverse.
I don't even have one place to store lyrics, they could be upstairs, downstairs, or in the ladies chamber... so although I haven't really lost any lyrics, I'd be pretty hard pushed to find what I want now.
For songs I've already written, I have to play them and write the lyrics as I hear them and there's always one damn word or phrase I can't decipher.
Sadly I have lost quite a few completed songs when my pc decides to delete them from old files... and they are always the best ones. I have a back up system but I forget to connect it mostly.
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