some great stuff here...thanks all.

I've done both first, although I am far more comfortable with writing the lyricfirst...but I've also gone a third way.

I have a "beat box" that will drum out patterns...giving me a "groove" to play with...so that the rhythm and feel came first.

And MAB, yes, greatb point.

I sometimes lose folks with a lyric because it is far to esoteric or abstract...making sense (only?) to me.

Fun to write, but to as Neil is heard to say on Four Way Street...that starts of slow then kinda fizzles out all together smile





If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop