Post The Picture
Episode #57: Post The Picture\xa0 \xa0 \xa0(Song at 6.58)\n\nWhere does a song come from? It's a bit like how long is a piece of string\u2026\nFor me, my songwriting (and my painting) comes from a combination of what is happening in the moment around me - and within - and memories.\nMy lyrics lead me across time, like a time traveller. How does that feel? It makes me feel free - free to express whatever I'm feeling.\nWhen you're writing a song it doesn't feel like you're doing it alone. There some sort of cool cosmic agreement going on, a meeting of energies ...that's one way of trying to explain inspiration.\nSo you tune into something\u2026it\u2019s like theatre sports, or arranging songs with your band. You can't block other people's energies /input. The creative flow just stops. So you just \u2018play\u2019 with the ideas that flow.\nWhen I wrote this song - song # 324 - I was well along my creative path. I was on the road a lot. I worked 3 nights a week at a resort as a piano man. Come\xa0Sunday afternoon, I was off in my van, free as the breeze.\nAnd I had my ears open.\nAnd my heart...\nI could've played my cards a little more guardedly, looking back.\nYep, my heart was open at this point, as it was pretty much broken, but I was hopeful that a relationship that hadn't even really been allowed to start might somehow come to light....\nWhat I gained personally by putting myself out there - and vulnerable - was personal growth.\nI think the true artists path and the path of work on the self is completely intertwined.\nAfter all these years I still absolutely love just letting my hands play on the keys with a bit of feeling.... And like a trout nibbling at the end of a hopefully cast fishing line, there's an answer - more often than not - and were in business.\nThat's how it feels to be a songwriter.\nThis week I'll take you from a winter's evening in central New Zealand where the newspaper selling man\u2019s call floated across the city square. I'll we\u2019ll go to a camping ground next to a stream, in the warm summer of the North.\nI'll explain how a feeling became a painting instead of a letter, which in turn became a song, then turned into another working painting and then became another finished painting (which will become part of a music video). You can view a painting on this weeks blog at www.petepascoe.wordpress.com\n\nEntertainment and information - that's what's on offer here again this week.\nI hope you enjoy the episode.\nDon't forget you can sign up to my email list at\xa0info@petepascoe.com\xa0...eventually I'll have ebooks and video courses on how to write songs ... In the meantime there's a stack of music (13 albums) and art waiting for you online.\nThanks for stopping by today. Enjoy the show.