A natural habit...

When I write songs, I always have a few pages just for doodles.
I believe you've already seen them from some of my older posts. Well, here's another doodle page that I worked on. And it ends up being the last page of my songbook.

Time to get a new one. :)

This doodle page isn't exactly full of "doodles." It's a whole bunch of my favorite song lyrics and titles of my favorite songs, and favorite artists. Some of these lyrics are actually inspirational and they motivate me.

This is basically what I do when I'm stuck on a song. Writing other lyrics helps me come up with more of my own lyrics. I just figured that our recently and now I do it all the time. :)

As you can see, I have written "Tino" somewhere in this picture. Tino is actually my guitar's name. (haha, yes. I actually did name it.)

I'm really sorry if some of the lyrics are messy. Sometimes my printing is extremely neat and other times it's really messy. It just depends on my mood. : D

Lemme show ya'll a little something...

Hey everyone!!!
Every songwriter and/or musician is unique in their own way. Then again, EVERYONE is different in their own way! Anyways, something that makes me unique is what I do in my songbook. Technically, my songbook is quite unique... Take a look at this -->


This is the back of my songbook. As you can see it's full of signatures. Haha. Well, this is what I do when I'm stuck on a song. I love to doodle! Besides, it's good practice for when I'm really famous. (Haha, just kidding!)

My favorite part of this is the signature in the middle... it's written in my favorite green gel-pen. It's really sparkly... hehe... It really pops out!

Okay, okay enough about that... I just got over excited... I wrote this new song. It's called 
"The Memories We've Shared."

It's hard to let go, yea,
But now it's time for change.
It hurts more and more, yea,
But I'll end up okay...

I've been trying to pretend like I don't care,
And that it doesn't hurt.
But when I think about the memories,
It doesn't seem to work.

It seemed like a dream,
When it all worked out before.
It's breaking my heart,
That I have to let it all go.
But I have to think about the future,
And that maybe it's for the better,
But my mind traced back to the memories,
The memories we shared...

I don't like change,
But I can't stop it now.
If I could go back,
How would things turn out?

While I've been trying  to face the truth,
That seems like a lie,
I was holding back all the tears,
Because I'm not gonna cry.

It seemed like a dream,
When it all worked out before.
It's breaking my heart,
That I have to let it all go.
But I have to think about the future,
And that maybe it's for the better,
But my mind traced back to the memories,
The memories we shared...

It easier to think about the happy things,
But it's harder when everything turns around.
I killing me inside,
I just have to let is pass by,
And think about what's in store...

It seemed like a dream,
When it all worked out before.
It's breaking my heart,
That I have to let it all go...
But I have to think about the future,
And that maybe it's for the better,
Everything will change,
Everything will go
But my mind will trace back to the memories,
The memories we shared...
 
Everything will change,
And everything will go,
Maybe it's for the better though...

There are days where I sit and sit... and come up with nothing.

This is one of those days.

Although, I spent last night writing a song up until 1:30 AM.
I'm not yet finished and I didn't come up with a title. I got mostly the first two verses done. I got distracted because I was listening to some music on my iPod and I had these super awesome sparkly gel pens and I started to doodle with them!! :D I have this page (or two) devoted entirely of doodles. :)

Because... if I get stuck on a song, then I can start to doodle. It keeps me thinking. (Hey, did you know that it's good to doodle? Haha. I wrote an essay about it... quite interesting...)

So, here it is.

"I've been thinking all day,
What's in my life.
I want to move forward,
But I go back in time.

Back to the past,
I want to fix my mistakes.
I know it wont happen,
So I learn each day.

I keep thinking about whats going on.
I need to think about moving on."

This is what I got so far and I hope I can finish it because I have a feeling it might end up being one of my best songs. ;)