Fast forwards, rewinds, and throwaway lines
Notebooks, tapes, and lost thoughts
Concepts, ideas, and fantasÃas
Blocks and struggles hard-fought
Whittling the elements into shape
Freeing the sculpture from the stone
You can procrastinate but you can’t escape
This is the craft you’ve made your own.
You gotta put it all together now
Gather the scattered into one place
Put it all together now
Then you can look yourself in the face
Put it all together now
Assemble the pieces and build your tower
Put it all together now
Believe that you got the power.
Stalled productivity
A million unfinished projects
Perfectionism is the enemy of creativity
And it blocks you from pursuing your object
Your pipeline is all backed up
The flow is barely oozing
Your tires are all jacked up
When you wish you were moving
You gotta put it all together now ...
But you won’t let this get the best of you
After all, they’re only songs
Don’t let them make a test of you
And you’ll be on track before long
You gotta jump in for the waters to be parted
You can’t just stand there and kvetch
‘Cause this is the season for finishing what you started
This is the home stretch
You gotta put it all together now ...
©2024 The Hesh Inc.
Some encouragement in the face of severe writer's block, probably from my burst of prolificity in the early 2000s when I was still living at the Jersey Shore not long before moving to Los Angeles. I wrote a lot of songs about songwriting during this time.