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When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'perhaps i made it up,' she thought. then it came to her - the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. she sat on the edge of the bed thinking, 'there aren't any more new songs and i have sung all the ones there are. i have sung them all. i have sung all the songs there are.

-Toni Morrison

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When She Awoke There Was A Melody

Toni Morrison

When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'perhaps i made it up,' she thought. then it came to her - the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. she sat on the edge of the bed thinking, 'there aren't any more new songs and i have sung all the ones there are. i have sung them all. i have sung all the songs there are.

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Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. it depends on the tempo and feel of the song. slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. i write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. it always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

'something more' is a song that i wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. i wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so i was just looking for something more to put on the record.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. words are words. the only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. they've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. it's all the same. lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. they are interchangeable to me.

I wept in my dreams. i dreamed you lay in the grave; i awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you had left me; i awoke and i went on weeping long and bitterly. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you were still kind to me; i awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

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