Got To Get You Into My Life” was a song on the album “Revolver” and was released by The Beatles in 1966. For forty years it was one of my favorite Beatle tunes, so imagine my surprise when I learned last year that what I thought was an upbeat love song was actually a tribute to pot (some say cocaine). LOL
The lesson learned: I’m not nearly as smart as I’d like to believe.
That was just a bonus story; now on to the real blog posting.
Again with the music….I was listening to “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen the other day. What a haunting, brilliant tune…and then that night I watched a tribute to Led Zeppelin, with Heart singing “Stairway to Heaven”…..again, a brilliant song….and I found myself wondering what it must be like to write something that brilliant.
Would you even know it if you did? Seriously, do you think Cohen knew he penned a classic when he wrote “Hallelujah?” Do you think Paige and Plant knew they had written quite possibly the greatest rock song of all-time?
And that all reminds me of a line from the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.” In the movie, Redford is telling his childhood sweetheart, played by Glenn Close, that he could have been so much better if he hadn’t run into trouble at a young age, and Close asks them then what? Why is that so important? And Redford says “then, when I walked down the street, people would look at me and say ‘there goes the greatest baseball player of all-time, and wouldn’t that be something?”
I don’t know if it would be or not, but I keep aiming for it. It’s how I’m wired. I’m not satisfied being a good writer, or even a very good writer. I want to be the best!
But then a little voice in my head tells me that will never happen, so live with it . . . but still I try . . .
And that’s just the way it is!
Billybuc
Artistry With Words 