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Everything Happens for a Rhyme ©2012 Robert George

It’s a Rocky Mountain shack in late December
And an evening storm is rolling in
So I’ll grab my notepad while I still remember
Lines of wisdom nestled in the wind

And the weather serves the season
And the season’s tethered close to time
In this world everything happens for a reason
But for poets…everything happens for a rhyme

Carpenters will carve a dresser or a cradle
From a frosty grove that’s wintergreen
But a poet’s nights are futile, slow and fatal
Should his pen refuse to intervene

And the weather serves the season
And the season’s tethered close to time
In this world everything happens for a reason
But for poets…everything happens for a rhyme

O the teardrops of loss, are his rivers to cross
And they keep him searching ever inward
And the midnight sadness and the quiet madness
Are the harvest of his haunted vineyard

Now the softly falling snow becomes confetti
In a lonely night parade of ghosts
And my page is empty but my pen is ready
To revisit friends I miss the most

And the weather serves the season
And the season’s tethered close to time
In this world everything happens for a reason
But for poets…everything happens for a rhyme

It’s a Rocky Mountain shack in late December
And an evening storm is rolling in…

Oh boy...Robert George is okay with AI as co-writer!!!

This must actually be exciting for you, what with your amazing back catalogue of beautiful lyrics.

Beautiful song, as usual. A very well crafted lyric, and the chorus is perfect in every way.

There's a double meaning and capitol Truth, insiders Truth, with your tag line, in that, for writers, literally, we BACKWARDS ENGINEER our work, at times, to make that unique, beautiful, perfect rhyme...work, and we, in writing this way, find that the songs' meaning can "emerge" from thin air like that.

That's one of the wonders of songwriting, and that's why that tag is especially powerful for us writers who have ever found meaning, emerging from the dust of a great rhyme, and then we know what our song's about, and steer it accordingly.

It's actually the way I work, most of the time.

Mike

Thanks, Mike, and it's good to see you on JPF.

I don't know tech, so at first I didn't know what AI was. Then Rob B. sent me Idiot Proof. Do you remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs has a fit whenever he gets near gold? a bartender tells Yosemite Sam that a "funny feelin" came over Bugs that enabled him to find gold. Sam looks around, scheming, and growls, "I got a funny feelin' comin' over ME!"

that's how I felt when I realized what I could do with it. No more needing overpaid Nashville cats for demos. I could demo what I wanted, with the arrangements I wanted. (more or less)

Can't beat that.

I did t get to hear the tune wrong link?