To All and Mostly to Derek,

Feel your pain Bro. I spent a chunk of time working my verse melodies and redoing lyrics only to find that the verse melodies had already been decided. I've already swallowed a fair amount of poop and decided to keep going, so I feel like I'd like to try another chorus that would follow the verse/pre that we now have. Just so I can feel like I've emptied myself out on this song. And it's still kinda fun because it's so far from the kind of thing I normally write.

There was a couple of things said before that I'd like to belatedly respond to.

I never thought of my original "Colossal" as a country song. I thought it could be a song for a boys band like on Disney Radio. And I always thought I was was writing with Mike Caro when I wrote to his music, I just didn't express myself very well in my original post.

I don't think that I 'borrowed' from Mark K. in creating my chorus melody. I posted my first draft about a day after his and I had been working on it a couple of days before that and I had the melody before I had the words. There may be a couple of notes the same but a couple of notes is not the same as three or four measures the same. I'd be interested if Mark has any comment on that though.

It reminded me of Faith Hill being sued for using the chorus of "It Matters to Me" in a song she took credit for writing. That was settled out of court to avoid embarrassment. But as a group of songwriters I felt I should have been supported rather than slapped down as a bad sport.

All that said I'm not bitter about anything and we all come with different ideas and levels of experience so I'm still working on a few final ideas before Wed. And I can sympathize with Sub, it wears me out just doing a few song critiques. And I feel bad sometimes that can't devote more energy to it.

Pete