RE: Pouring my thoughts from my mind to the paper

I love reading hand written lyrics. I know they are usually "secrets" and commercial in confidence before being turned into a song (even if they're commercially valuable only to the self) - but I guess that makes them a poem before they are song.

I have been diving deeply into Florence Welch, and her book, "Useless Magic" has a whole bunch of collage, mixed media, scribbles, photographs, and hand written, original versions of songs and poetry. It is fascinating to see that come to life in a book, collated after the stream of consciousness.

That, and she has so many song lyrics that almost break the fourth wall of song writing (there's an idea for a post!)

Excerpt from The Bomb by Florence and the Machine:

I've blown apart my life for you
And bodies hit the floor for you
And break me, shake me, devastate mе
Come here, baby, tell me that I'm wrong
I don't love you, I just love the bomb (oh-oh-oh)
I let it burn, but it just had to be done (oh-oh-oh)
And I'm in ruins, but is it what I wanted all along?
Sometimes you get the girl, sometimes you get a song

From My Love:

I was always able to write my way out
The song always made sense to me
Now I find when I look down
Every page is empty

And finally, from The End of Love:

I feel nervous in a way that can't be named
I dreamt last night of a sign that read "The end of love"
And I remember thinking
Even in my dreaming
It was a good line for a song

Despite the fact that everything fascinates me, song lyrics in their hand written form fascinate me a LOT, because you can really see the thought pattern throughout each stroke of pen against paper, or pencil against whatever surface.

When I go to my writer's group today, I think I will challenge myself to write a poem in the allocated time instead of a short story. I haven't written poetry in a very long time, will be good to see if I can formulate something. I'll report back later, probably extending this comment into a post. :P