I've been trying my hardest to write songs on how I feel. Usually when I get stressed out or frustrated or I am just generally feeling anything, I go into my room and try to write a song encompassing how I feel.
Which, in my own right, was somewhat successful for two or three songs that Sean and I are currently working on for our band. But now, nothing's coming. I've thought of broken fragments of songs that sound good and describe how I feel, but I can't string them together.
I wonder if it's my inexperience of writing songs that are to blame here, or if it's not knowing how I feel- that I'm not feeling enough or too much.
Even the guitar part of writing songs is becoming harder for me. I can strum out an okay chord progression, but then I realize that it has either been done before by myself or it sounds way too similar to something else I have already written.
It's becoming stagnant, and it's beginning to make me frustrated. However, I still go into my room and pick up my acoustic in hopes that I'll finally string those fragments together and create a chord progression that shows how I am feeling. That for once, I can finally give an accurate and correct response to "How are you doing Garrett?"
Or maybe I'm just lying to myself and everyone else. I doubt this is the case because I am not one to go into denial, and if I do, I don't visit it for too long.
At any rate, I don't have anything to do this weekend and I wish this would change.
I'm not very good at writing songs. I can write free verse poetry and I can write, just write... Never a song, though. I don't know why.