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Hey Trev,
Hope you don't mind me chiming in here.
Your question is not one that can be answered by anyone except you. There are many who can put music to your lyrics and they may come close. But really, the melody is in you. As hokey or silly as that may sound, it's in you and you just have to dig for it.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I have lyric that I wrote in '97 or '98 that has torn me up because I have yet to bring that melody I hear in my head to the strings of my guitar. It's a great lyric. It's actually disconcerting to me. Drives me crazy. Yet, every couple of months over the last nine or ten years, I haul it out and have a go at it and I come up short every time.
Matter of fact I'll post the lyrics here. Maybe that will shake something loose. Seems to have worked on another lyric from days gone by.
Anyway. Don't despair. Sooner or later that melody will show it's face.
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LC