Yeah, so, a while ago, my brother, a high-school-aged (senior) music composer and, in my opinion, genius, was asked to compose a song to the lyrics that his friend had written. Well, he wrote the song, it came out beautifully, and put in the lyrics so they fit correctly, and the friend, a singer, also a senior, really liked how it turned out.
So things were going great, and my brother showed the band director the musical score and sent her a midi file of the song (because my brother has a program on the computer that enables him to hear what he puts in for music) and the band director loved it. She even suggested that they get an ensemble together to play it at a concert.
Well, the friend recently started talking to my brother about the song, and I'm not sure what exactly happened, but I guess she doesn't like the melody anymore or something. Now, my brother put his heart into composing this, because this was his first song with lyrics, and it would have taken a hell of a lot of time to completely re-write the melody and the song and stuff, so he just decided that she's got to find another composer.
But now with the lyricist gone, he needed to find someone to re-write the lyrics to the song since he couldn't use the ones already there (copyright, lol)
So, he asked the girl who he wanted to have sing it if she was interested. She said that she'd love to sing it, but she's working on releasing her first solo album, so she's too busy to write lyrics for it.
Needing a good writer, he turned to me, I guess because he knows that my obsession is writing. So, I accepted and I'm now writing lyrics for the song.
Now lemme tell ya this; at first, I thought that it would be hella easy. It would have been a hella easy way to get my writing with my brother's music (finally) and a good way to get more well-known. You see, he'll still have it performed at a concert this year, and they'll announce that this song was composed by my brother and the lyrics were written by me. There would be lots of people at the concert, people I know, people I don't know, and though I'd watch it being performed instead of singing it, I'd still be recognized for me contribution for the song, for this song isn't much without the vocals.
But once I had my five minutes of fantasizing my rise to fame, I was shot back down with reality; writing a song to already set up beats it TOUGH!!!
I've gotten down about eight lines right now, and I'm at a block. The rhythm is pretty tough at parts, it's long, and I'm hoping that I won't run out of ideas before the end of the song.
But you know what? I have no doubt that this song will be amazing; my lyrics will be meaningful, the selecter singer's voice will bring the audience to tears, and the music will uplift everyone's souls.
Well, I've got a lot of crap to do tonight, tomorrow, and for a while. My birthday's next week and I've been dealing with some angst with that, along with my desire to get a job and my dilemma concerning my disability, and of course planning my birthday party. Yeah. Lots of crap.
This is Horse lady, signing out... and writing! More writing!!!
Katie Sea Community Member 
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