Let’s hear your favorite lyrics!
I’ve been writing new songs this past year and comparing them to the ones I wrote 20 or 30 years ago. Back then my lyrics were very ‘in the moment’ and lacked the lived in feel that the years bring
A few nights ago I fell asleep to Racmaninoff’s Second piano concerto…
I started thinking about his story. When he was a young aspiring musician he lost his sisters and best friend and he put all his grief and hope in his first concerto…
which flooped. badly.
He was devastated and wanted to give up music. Until he met a therapist and after years of working through his trauma he wrote Concerto 2. Which became one of the most well loved concertos in history -
I wrote this song after thinking about that all day.
tried the make the lyrics of this song discuss the loss of and regaining one’s inspiration and its metaphor to human connection
Posted Aug 25, 2026, 8:21 PM UTC