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How To Compose

This is a song inspired by a song
Much better than this one by someone far more brilliant than me.
Her music
Helps transcends the confines of mundane reality

I want to tell you what
I felt when the choir stood and sang its bloody heart right out
feel free to make
Something far less than what I’m inspired about

So it goes
Creativity leaves you exposed
How to Compose
This is a story based on a story
A painting, a movie, a website, a chat, a book I once read.
I mingle and mangle them up
With whatever else is currently stuck in my head

You know that thing
When you’re just about to write it down and then you panic
I need to push through
The moment of doubt to see what arrives if you let it

So it goes
Creativity leaves you exposed
How To Compose

And this bit’s new and sort of mine
Don’t know why I walk the line
Remixing love and guilt and rage
The Liquid Book, electric page

In stereo, in black and white
colouring in what I write
A manifesto for the age
The Liquid Book, Electric page

This is a poem well, not quite a poem.
A lyric, a noise, a series of words
Broadcast and published in people’s hearts
if it’s actually heard.

You know that thing
When you’re just about to write it down and then you panic
I need to push through
The moment of doubt to see what arrives if you let it

I want to tell you what
I felt when the choir stood and sang its bloody heart right out
feel free to make
Something far less than what I’m inspired about

So it goes
Creativity leaves you exposed
But that’s How to Compose

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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