Day #1 "This Beautiful Design"

Thus begins my first day of my 365 project- my goal: to write a song every single day for an entire year.

I have never done anything like this before.

Writing a song is part inspiration, part craft, and part luck. Most of the time, you just have to pick up your guitar and hope something strikes you as interesting. Then you hope that you can somehow come up with some lyrics that aren't derivative drivel.

But my manager told me that Neil Young has written 365 songs a year for... what? Something like 30 years? Imagine all the songs he's written! Some are probably horrible, some brilliant, most probably forgettable. But it's not like we hear the bad ones! What's the harm in writing a song, even if it's awful?

Coldplay and Switchfoot had over 80 songs each to choose from on their last albums.

So I have this new metric:

Writing more songs= writing more bad songs.

But writing more songs= writing more great songs.

This is a trade I will make.

I'm going to try to post the lyrics for every song I write on here. Perhaps I'll also figure out how to post demos as well!

Song from day one- "This Beautiful Design"

I can see the plan behind the pain.
I can feel the grass under this rain.
Somewhere behind this broken mind.
There's a beautiful design.

Every war, death, and disease.
Reminds me that my need for peace
Was something that you put in me
This beautiful design

Broken People
Barely breathing
Seemingly far gone

Every heartbeat
Has a name
And they all need love the same.

I can see the plan behind the pain
I can see the picture for the frame
Through every doubt
I've figured out
There's a beautiful design.