My six-month old pup, Cocoa… also known as Cocoa Bean… among her other nicknames is great for showing songwriting lessons.
She loves to play. Always wants me to toss something so she can fetch it.
She’s got this toy turtle. Well the turtle part is long gone, all that’s left is a half-football shaped piece of squeaky rubber with rubber spines on the top of it.
But she loves that thing.
I could throw that thing across the backyard for an hour straight and she’ll still want to play.
In fact, there’s times when I’m just done, and she’s squeaking that thing all over my legs.
Half-slobbed up piece of rubber with dirt and leaves mixed in… it’s pretty gross after an hour.
But, when I’m done? I’m done.
But she’ll just keep on squeezing that gobbed up piece of gross toy all up and down my legs trying to get me to play.
She’s not paying attention to me at all. She’s just doing what she wants to do, no matter what I think.
I’m thinking… “Okay, we’ve done this time and time and time and time again. I’m’ tired of it.”
Thing is, slobbing her wet desires all over my legs is the worst thing she could do to get me to play with her.
It ain’t much different in song lyrics me Tunie.
You can write in such a way where listeners watch you salivate over your own lyrics while they just wipe their legs with your gobbed up words.
They’ve been there before and it’s nothing they ain’t heard before. In fact, they probably can predict the next lines or perhaps the second half of your lines.
Now, if you had a fresh new toy, not a slimy bald turtle, to toss around, they might play, right?
‘Tiz something you’ll learn to do in May’s TuneBooster. Take those gross, gobbed up repeat lines a listener knows, and freshen them up to new squeaky toys to play with their attention.
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