that sometimes our very best songs are the ones we sing just for ourselves – that only ‘we’ (and He) hear.

i think sometimes (by no means all times) what is REALLY important is putting it OUT and not holding it in – hidden deep inside of who we are. Those times it does not matter so much who ‘else’ hears it, just knowing we wrote and sung it can be enough.

i guess some songs need only be ‘about’ ourselves.

it may just be that those are our best ‘work’ and maybe they will also be our most ‘popular’ (should others actually hear them)…. or not?

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woman, you can write. and you write well! you are such a tremendous story teller. definitely a strength of yours.

i will be surprised is this song doesnt interest many people in that comp.

Just as the old question stands: if a tree falls in the forest…?

So the same can be said of a song: if it’s sung, but no one is around to hear it, is it really a song? is it really fulfilling its purpose? is it really being heard?

So by all means seek to write the perfect song for YOU – and if others love it also – Bonus!

And as you said above – not every single song you write HAS to be ‘perfect’ – any more than all of our kids will turn out to be ‘perfect’, sometimes we need to do something that is less than perfect so we can get a part of future ‘perfection’ into our reality..

That is not to say that anything is not capable of some ‘improvement’ or that we should not continually try to improve things (us included) from how they first come ‘out’.

It’s great to see you making progress and finding people who can seriously help you in ways other than cheering from the sidelines (never really been my strong-point).

Woot woot. (See?)

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