Though I agree with making a song "your own" through personal experience and feeling, I do agree with Spyder that at times, the song just flows out of you, out of the feeling you are having. One of my best songs were conceived while looking at the clouds on a mysterious, yet sunny day, when a sentence jumped out of my head with a tune. I even had to go look up one of the words in the dictionary to understand why they seemed appropriate at that moment! Call me crazy, but sometimes I find a song to have the ability to write ME...and through playing it, my life at that time period suddenly makes more sense. Music sure has some magical qualities, I tell ya.
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