Story Telling

Song of the day: Paperweight Schuyler Fisk
Photo: The Color of an Octave by Darkpiano7

A Song is nothing but an expression of your inner self. To write a song is to write down your feelings and put them into words and then put a melody to it. It has always been hard for me to let someone else sing my songs because they did not feel my emotions that are being so blatantly displayed in this song. They never experienced the story that I am telling when I sing. But later after I started expressing my self through music did I realize something, each person will take a song and make it their own. It doesn't matter what it is that I write about, someone else is going to hear a different story when they listen to it based on their past. The song is my story because I lived it but to someone else who has lead a different life, they are going to hear something closer to what they have lived and connect to it in that way. It makes it easier to share music because then you start to crave for others to connect to your music and hope that they will feel something when they hear it. When I write a song now, I strive to make it my story but also to leave it open enough so that others can find their story within it. If I make it too specific, it becomes lost on the listener because they cannot connect with what I have lived. They can no longer add their own feelings too it. So by telling my story or feelings in an open way, I allow others feelings and past the flow through it and others can connect themselves to the song. Each song you hear on the radio is someones story but yet we connect to them without knowing what the real story is. That is good song writing. Story telling at its finest.