Creators of every stripe are influenced by others who labor in the same field of creativity. Acknowledgements of this truism include the time when the back of an album cover might list the artists whose specific songs and style had influenced the recordings on that album. Songwriters are no exception. Evolutionary song ideas spring to life merely by the listening. Song ideas, of course, come from every aspect of life. Songwriters look for “hooks” in everything they do: listening, reading, viewing, thinking, etc. For this month’s song inspiration, see below.
“If Love Can Fall It Fell” sprang from watching a television documentary about life in Alaska. The interviewee was explaining that when he was with “her,” they had to travel a short distance in a boat to get to the small island where they lived. Now that she was “gone,” he said the journey on the lake had become a journey of the heart. So the original song title was “Journey Of The Heart,” but it became “If Love Can Fall It Fell” as the song was written and came into focus. It is not unusual for the original song title to change as the songwriting evolves.
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