Hi Petra,

someone will no doubt tell you that it doesn't matter if someone else has used the same title because titles are not copyright-able, and that is true.

but if selling your songs is your goal, and you have a fertile mind (and if you are a "songwriter" you do) you should stay fresh and new to maximize your chances all around. More parties will be interested in your song . . . publishers, other writers, artists, composers.

So yes, you can simply write another verse or two that end with "Something is Missing" . . . and if you think of some other information pertinent to the story that isn't in the verses, then create a BRIDGE.

A BRIDGE or Chorus could even start with:

Yes, Something is Missing
Ever since you. . . .
Yada, yada, yada
Something , something . . . kissing
something I can't put my finger on
Something I'm hoping I'll stumble upon
Something is missing.

And no, ALL titles have not been used before.

Don't rush it.
Don't "push the river" as they say.
Let ideas come to you rather than trying to force them and they won't come off sounding contrived.

Start by making your new title:
Something is Missing

BUT YES it has already been done and so maybe you should focus more on Kisses From Heaven or change your existing Chorus to Something besides "Abracadabra".
If your idea was significantly different that John Meyer's that would be different.
I have two songs with titles I had before I knew the songs had been done, but my ideas around the same titles are so totally different from there's that I'm sticking with them. I tried to change them both and put tons of work into trying but in the end decided to stay with my original, though not original, titles.


"Something's Missing" BY JOHN MEYER

I'm not alone, I wish I was.
Cause then I'd know, I was down because
I couldn't find, a friend around
To love me like, they do right now.
They do right now.

I'm dizzy from the shopping malls
I searched for joy, but I bought it all
It doesn't help the hunger pains
and a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
something's missing
And I don't know what it is
At all

When autumn comes, it doesnt ask.
It just walks in, where it left you last.
And you never know, when it starts
Until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart:

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
something's missing
And I don't know what it is
At all

I can't be sure that this state of mind, is not of my own design
I wish there was an over the counter test, for loneliness.
For loneliness like this.

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
Something's missing
And I don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is
Something's different
And i don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is


Terry

Last edited by Terry G; 03/20/11 05:38 PM.