Questions and Answers - a Lyric
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This is a lyric in progress for an online Musicianship/Songwriting course I'm taking through Coursera . The material of the course comes from the Berkeley School of Music. Next I need to balance out the song meter so that the lines will flow more musically, trying to attain "prosody" (the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung). This will be my big challenge for the next 10 days or so, therefore there may be a rewrite next week. I'm not too satisfied with the third verse; I may replace it or add a fourth for a stronger ending.
Questions and Answers
We are overloaded with responses
To questions we care little about:
What to buy and other nonsense--
Marketing crap without a doubt
Seems the only questions that matter
Are the ones that help you know yourself.
They're the ones with no right answer,
That one must answer for oneself.
(chorus)
What do you have worth living for?
What do you think’s worth dying for?
Does something make you greater than you are?
What down here most sets you free,
Helps you become what you want to be?
What is the dream that will take you far?
Who or what is your guiding star?
If you could filter out all the clutter,
The media makes us hear and see,
And let your mind be still like water
To ponder what it means to be.
What do you have worth living for?
What do you think’s worth dying for?
Does something make you greater than you are?
What down here most sets you free,
Helps you become what you want to be?
What is the dream that will take you far?
Who or what is your guiding star?
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Copyright © Mark J. Halliday | Year Posted 2016
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