Song Club #10: Wildness

It often seems the opposite, but wildness is everywhere if you look.

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It often seems the opposite, but wildness is everywhere if you look for it. Trees and other plant life poke through sidewalks on the busiest New York streets. Ferocious sparks of frustration fly from moments where animal instinct takes over on those same streets. Even folks who tend to avoid conflict with pedestrians can have a quiet, hidden wildness—just look long enough in their eyes. 

A big part of my desire to write music comes from my experience of my own wildness: dealing with the parts of myself that are uneven, cock-eyed, and restless makes me want to pull them out via song and show them to whoever will listen. 

The wildness we find both inside and outside ourselves make for fertile songwriting territory—lush visuals and big emotions!

This week in Song Club, we’re exploring wildness—both our own, and that which blooms around us. 

Have fun!

Lucy 

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SONG PROVOCATIONS 

Write a song set in the wildest place you have ever been

Dig into the way it felt to be in that place, at that time. How did the wildness strike you? What did you see, smell, touch that led you to understand this place as wild? What happened there, and how did it leave you feeling?