lyrics and music

Lyrics suck.

Or rather, setting a poem to music is a lot more difficult than I have forseen.

I thought it would be the perfect thing to help get me back in the groove of writing, that writing music to words that already exist would help inspire the music.

But I just keep feeling like I'm not doing the words justice. And really, I probably shouldn't, I know my skills aren't as developed yet, but...it still seems, I don't know, sacrilegious, irrevent, just plain WRONG. Of course, it helps I picked a poet I adore, making the fear of being wrong, of not getting the point of the poem, that much stronger (as I type, I think I can hear Khalil Gibran rolling over in his grave).

That said, I set two more lines of the voice part in the last hour or so. I sense that it is all placeholder and will be changed, definately helps the defeatist mood I've manged to put myself in. Grad applications are looming again, therefore I am panicky about having more to my portfolio because I don't think I can stand being completely rejected again.

When my Sorrow was born
I just wished I could finished the damn thing.