Spend my time just running From the things that bother me. Running to a better place Where people just can be Exactly who they are, Without a care about Some preconceived illusion Of one thing they think
Exceeds the rest in value. Unfortunate, the ones who feel A threat from something different Which just doesn't look like They expect it to.
I do not harbor a burning desire to be made aware of the origins of songs when hearing them in performance by the author. As a writer of them, I can honestly say they come from any direction at any time, generally uninvited, and mostly unexplained. Sometimes I can remember some circumstances surrounding the creation of a song. Many times I cannot. To hear such details painstakingly elucidated during a performance is, to me, not particularly enjoyable nor enlightening. As a creator of music, I would venture to say that the story (feeling, emotion etc.) that a listener perceives when hearing one of my songs is by far more important than the gory details of how the song came to be. Granted, multiple hearings must occur in order for a song to become familiar and be remembered. But something should 'hook' the listener on first listen to capture the imagination be it lyric, melody, tempo, or phrasing. On rare occasions, some historical information can be of interest, but the first and early public presentations of original songs need not include these presentations, as a rule, for every song being sung.
". . . He was sententious and didactic that night. If he had been simply loving, he would have done Little Dorrit more good; but she accepted him as he was - when had she not accepted him as he was! - and made the most and best of him. . . Little Dorrit then put her arm round her father's neck, to bid him good night. . . "