Originally Posted by Michael Zaneski
.... I would hate to think all my theories about YS are just smokescreens for a frustrating adolescent drama I went through, LOL..

BTW, I am with you on writing songs with real friends in mind. The actual content does not need to be real stuff that happened, just that there be an imagined (though real) recipient at the other end. That helps generate real emotion, I believe. smile


I get that feeling with a few songs from high school.... grin

And I find writing a lyric in first person is an effective way to express emotions in a story and connect with the listener. But it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s MY story....the "I" is a character like fdemetrio stated. I see comments to songwriters (including myself) w/the assumption the writer was the one who went thru what was written. Sometimes they have...of course.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,
he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist