THROWAWAY MELODIES

I think the Sleeping Songwriter might definitely be waking up. This morning, I thought up a ditty for a singing exercise I'm supposed to be leading.

There is hope then. I hummed my way through it while I was getting ready for work, then recorded myself singing into my phone while looking for my scarf.

This is how it starts - exciting little throwaway melodies that are something and nothing... but mostly something. Out of nowhere, yet tumbling from... somewhere. By the time I got to the High Street I'd worked out two of the harmonies. I got to my desk wondering how it was that my actual job had landed so far away from my actual passion.

"Hi Matt, it's Matt!" said a voice on the end of the phone. My friend Matt is getting married in a couple of months and wanted to ask me something about the songs in the ceremony.

Coincidentally, Matt had also just met someone who happened to have a copy of the album we released in 2009. He hadn't heard it before.

"I just found a copy of your album!" said Matt excitedly. I smiled to myself, remembering how it felt when I first heard it myself. It is possible, me being me, that I've been more critical about it than any other living person. It's not bad though, you know.

"Hope you like it," I said. The Sleeping Songwriter breathed in slowly and then breathed out again.

I think the time has come.