I don't think every line needs to stand on its own. Some of them can be transitional or in context.

As to the "Remember When" phenomenon. My daughter loves the song. She's fourteen. She doesn't know the lines in the songs are cliches because she isn't old enough to have heard many others like them. Every generation gets to reinvent the wheel. Alan Jackson's performance sounds heartfelt, the lines, while predictable and unoriginal, are perfectly sound emotional expressions. It's a song that I wouldn't have brought to a publisher, but also one I would have been proud to have written.

Regarding workshops, seminars, books and the like. There is absolutely no connection between having one or several hits and being able to teach songwriting. The best, and most useful seminars and etc. teach songwriting. None of them can teach how to write a hit song, only how to structure a song like many hits have been structured.

Well, the power went out here, so I'm going to post this and save the laptop battery.

All the Best,
Mike



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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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