A song about the difficulties of originality in song-writing. I like the story of Paul McCartney dreaming the melody to ‘Yesterday’ and him not believing it was original :)
Innocent channeling
Or guilty of
Plagiarism
Through my prism of waves
All I’ll ever know
Is your discarded rag and bone
That I recycle and remold
For new
I tried to copyright
All of these chords
Litigation
On the occasion I’m judged
Only trouble is
That they are standards of an age
When mainstream jazz was all the rage
In town
Slow it down
Speed it up
Change the key
I try to find a way to hide reality
What goes around comes around and around
Until it ends with me
Innocent channeling
Or guilty of
Plagiarizing
You
And you
