Floor Work

Little sweetheart, I'm kinda full force going at two projects simultaneously - both, of course, always, for you!

One is the memoir and the other is the next album.

I've notebooks everywhere - some filled ready for transcription, others mid-scrawl - and little notes scribbled on random pieces of paper strewn about the apartment. Every morning I try to organize them a bit, get them in the queue of what next to address as work goes twofold forward.

Today, while I was going for a second cup of coffee I saw and remembered a few lyric ideas I had scrawled on the back of an unopened piece of yesterday's mail. I had several pieces like it for the same song already set out last night on the desk to my left where I put my coffee cup in the morning to remind me to work on the song today. I brought the pieces in the kitchen and my music notebook and those scraps on the desk all to the floor next to my guitar pedals and grabbed a pen spreading it all out. A dedicated spot for this work!

And I suddenly thought of something I once heard Joe Strummer say about writing lyrics - "grab whatever you can, push everyone out the way and fall to floor to get it down because it only makes sense in that moment when it comes forward. You''ll lose it if you wait. Get it down, then. Now!" 

This is so perfectly true, don't you think, little sweetheart?

It's coming. It takes time for it all but it's coming. As another writer I remember says about it - "think slow, write fast."

It will be done, little sweetheart, it will be done. I know because I know you are sending it all to me. And I'm listening, my love. I promise, I promise it get it all down - for you!

With all my love.