Sometimes I just can't find it.
I’ve been doing this a long, long time, but there are times when I just can’t make music.
It just won’t come to me.
I’m all blocked up, nothing flows.
My fingers stumble around the fretboard and my timing is all shot.
Music has always been, well at least since I was I teenager, my thing.
I wrote some pretty good songs too.
Made some money.
Played some good sized venues.
A few records.
I can’t account for this and it’s frustrating as can be.
When I get in this state, I just keep banging away thinking I can make it leave.
Doesn’t work, just makes me more angry and tired.
And, that’s when I put down the guitar out of sheer exhaustion.
I don’t want to put it down, just physically can’t even hold it anymore.
But, my mind keeps going, thoughts are rattling in there and most of ‘em say I’m no good.
You know, come to think of it, those thoughts seem to be around a lot and even more so before the music won’t flow.
Wonder if that’s what sets that off, probably not, my mind is always going.
I guess, like I’ve always done, I’ll stick it out until the music flows again.
Hope the stretch between ain’t too long.
Maybe someday, I’ll get back to the place where it always flows, like when I was ‘The Kid.’
That’s the time I wish I could go back to so I could tell myself a thing or two.
Maybe things would’ve been different.
Oh well, I don’t have it too bad and I’ll find the that groove again.
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