"Open Conviction"
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"Am I more than you bargained for yet I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear Cause that's just who I am this week Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum I'm just a notch in your bedpost But you're just a line in a song" - Fall Out Boy, From: Sugar, We're Going Down
What is in a songwriter's head when he writes these words? Just a bunch of fillers for a great tab? Or a sense of mystery behind these words that may give justice to the harmony and the rhythm? Or it may hide the lack of merit of the last two factors in a song. Who knows.
Songs are open to different interpretations, be it clear or vague. But songwriters create these hits with an open conviction that people may dismiss it as crap or it may hit the top of the charts and probably get a nomination or two along the way.
Whatever the reason, the songwriter's state of mind is presented and is the prevailing theme in every song, in every stanza, note after note. It may reflect the angst that the listener is in who gets dissed by the apple of his eye. Or the unpopular guy who loves at a distance. Whatever the reason, any open interpretation maybe give a great reason to listen to a song who feels that the lyrics were meant for them, their refuge in a chaos, the shrink that listens minus the per hour bill.
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Brian Cook is a freelance writer whose articles on music and songwriting have appeared on many websites.
You can find more of these at SongwritersGuide.com.
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