[AZLiberty]

I've read these guys sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and have to write down a song.

A few months ago, at 67, I became one of "these guys". One day I heard two beautiful women commiserate on a Zoom call about how hard it was to be beautiful. As I was putting my head down on the pillow that evening a song appeared in my mind, "It's Tough to be Me".

Then came my song about essential oils, "There's An Oil for That", which I've actually had recorded. And just yesterday I finished a semi-autobiographical song about the Law of Attraction, called "Attraction".

Who knows where it will go from here?

[TangoLimaSierra]

That's cool. What did you have for dinner that nite? Maybe that's the key.
Hope it's pizza.

[17strings]

Who knows where it will go from here?

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I’m strictly an instrumentalist who couldn’t sing her way out of a paper bag. I had done a fair amount of arranging music for 3 instruments over the past decade, but suddenly out of the blue in 2020, I started writing my first original pieces. Not a lot, so far. I have one piece recorded and on YT, but I would be doxxing myself if I were to share it - sadly, no can do.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I have a guitar-blues lyric ("blues echo style") floating in my head.
It's based on this meme:

The kick line? "I'm next in line." I could just hear Buddy Guy, BB King or John Lee Hooker delivering that line.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I’ve done a little writing and had some small (very) pieces published. No music.

About 10 years ago, my husband and I were eating in a local steakhouse, and our waitress was from California. All of a sudden she said to me, “You look like a mom. We are having a shower for a girl here who has no resources - unmarried, pregnant, needs everything. What would you get her?”

I told her about some pro-life resources locally for unmarried moms, what they might be able to provide, and so on.

Then she just says, “I don’t have any kids. I was pregnant once, made it to four months, but the morning sickness got to me so I had an abortion.”

She said it in such a casual way, as if she said she had a mole removed.

I came home thinking about that child who had no tears shed over his death. And I wrote a song about it. It just kind of bloomed out of my heart - that’s the only way I know how to describe it.

But here it sits - I’ve never done anything with it.