Week 133 // Nothing New

by Mount Everest

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I am going to be brutally honest about this week’s song. I mailed it in. Some combination of lack of inspiration and procrastination lead me to write a song that I was barely interested in finishing. I won’t speak to whether or not it is a good song. That is up to the listener to decide. As this is a songwriting blog, and it is meant to shed light on the songwriting process, I’ll take this opportunity to elucidate a piece of the process that I usually hope to hide from my audience. Some songs are simply creative non-starters. Usually I’m able to push through it, or scrap it and write something different. Today I wasn’t so lucky. If I’m being totally candid, I’m not even sure what this song is about. I pretty much just wrote down some nonsense that sounded like Mount Everest lyrics. I wanted to write a simple and subtle followup to last week’s simple and subtle success, but instead I wrote whatever this is. I’m a little disappointed that things didn’t go better this week, but mostly I’m just relieved that this song is behind me. When I talk about songwriting, I frequently note that unsuccessful writing experiences are merely stepping stones to the next song that I’ll fall in love with writing.

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Waking up
Feel okay
Thinking of
Yesterday
When they ask
Nothing new
What has got
Into you?

Take a look
Where you are
Where you were
At the start
Where you first
Learned to be
Where you love
What you leave

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released June 3, 2013

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Mount Everest Maine

I’ve been making up a new song every week since 2010.
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