Make Me A Melody

It's hard to write a meaningful, agenda-specified and publicly singable song.

So far, I've written four separate tunes for the upcoming Youth Camp. After I completed each one, I remember I felt quite content, confident that that was going to be it. But it was naively so. Each song was a song on one day and a mongrel of cheesy intervals and pretentious lyrics the following week.

I think I'm beginning to empathise with a fraction of how these guys felt. Not to make much of my plain efforts to create affecting music, but I think the tension between being simultaneously creative and logical can become really hard to resolve. It becomes even more difficult with the gravitas that accompanies the expression of spiritual truths. The good thing is that it certainly fuels more experimentation.

Maybe I should hang out with the Maestro more often and hope something rubs off somehow, linguistically and musically. But I'll be writing this one in English anyways. I must have been out of my mind to have tried and presented otherwise in previous years!

Come to think of it, perhaps the latest song just needs refining. The main problem with it is that it's particularly hard to sing, I think. Haha. Ah, but who knows what I'll have to say about again tomorrow. I've really been humbled by this task.

Lord, make me a melody for me to use. Make me a melody for You to use.