Hi friends,
Song Club is back! Back with a new, shorter format and totally free. I’m excited for this because more important to me than a very small number of paid subscribers is building a songwriting community where folks from all over can write more together and share their works in progress. More on this as it unfolds, but until then …
Here’s this week’s prompt:
Everyone has a little voice in the back of their head they tend to ignore. It’s a voice that tells you things about yourself and the world you hope to hell aren’t true. It’s a voice reminding you of a deeper reality: a voice that says ‘no, I’m actually really hurt and scared by that person’ or ‘wow, maybe I’m the jerk here’. What ever it’s saying, it tends to be a small and quiet truth teller.
This week, write a song using things that little voice in the back of your head says. Get very still. Listen very gently. Coax out the truth, and see what kind of song is suggested. This is confronting work, so be tender with yourself. And but also, as my heroes Natalie Goldberg would say, ‘go for the jugular’.
They’re just words.
I’ll be sharing what I write this weekend. I hope you do too!
Godspeed,
Lucy