Messing About

Yesterday I wrote a song with my daughter-in-law.

She didn’t know we were writing a song at the time. She was just messing about. Coming up with words that worked, and words that didn’t. Trying to express the experience of being away with family.

If you said to someone “WRITE A SONG!” they might well be intimidated if they had never done so before. Blimey, that’s something only people with The Gift do surely?

On the other hand: “Let’s mess about with words and music for a while”. That’s different isn’t it?

Well, no. It’s a part of the process. Messing About. That’s how all of us kids…..small, medium and large…..learn to make anything.

We were just playing. And then, all of a sudden, we’d made a song.