Today I pitched one of my songs to Centricity Music Publishing. Centricity is a  Christian music publishing company. I have written some Christian music but have not spent money getting them demoed. I do have one song that I like that I am pitching. It is called, Long live the King. 

      It does not fit in the praise category and it doesn't fit in the gospel category. I would lean toward the country Christian music category  but don't know if that is quite right. I am hoping that they are looking for something different. Something that doesn't fit a category but would fit an artist. So why not give it a try. Here are the words to the songs.

Long live the King 

One white glove, you danced the moonwalk 

 Jackson Five to the King of Pop. 

I watched the crowd when you played Billie Jean 

I saw a young girl and I heard her scream. 

Chorus-Long live the King, Long live the King 

Come on everybody let’s sing 

We love you, we need you,

it’s your songs we sing. 

  Long live the King.

The music in Memphis, it rocks and it rolls 

Made famous by Elvis; part blues’n part soul. 

Ladies smiled when his hips swayed 

Idol to millions, in the US of A.

Chorus-Long live the King, Long live the King 

Come on everybody let’s sing 

We love you, we need you, it’s your songs we sing.   

Long live the King. 

Bridge- Our kings and their crowns, crumble and rust. 

We cry when they die,  as it all turns to dust. 

A baby in a manger, the hope of Israel 

Slain on a cross, to save me from hell. 

 We all worship, someone or something 

 I worship Jesus, King of all Kings. 

Chorus-Long live the King, Long live the King 

Come on everybody let’s sing 

We love you, we need you, it’s your songs we sing.   

Long live the King.

Outro- I love you , I need you, and you’re why I sing. 

Long live my King.

     I guess I'll see if they like it. I entered it today and will find out results next Friday. I love waiting. Lol

 Song titles. Every song has a title. Duh! Can I be more obvious? lol. It is true that every song has a title but not all titles are good titles. It is easier to talk about  bad titles than good titles. What are some examples of  bad titles? I wrote a song called, Man in the mirror. Yes this is the same title as a Michael Jackson song. I am not in trouble with MIchael for stealing his title. Anybody can use a song title. Song titles are open for everyone to use. Now I may not want to use it if my song will be so overshadowed by the original that nobody will ever listen to it. Let me ask you this, Has anyone every written a song called Amazing Grace? The song that you wrote called Amazing Grace might  be one the best songs ever but it is being compared to a  classic and those are mighty big shoes to fill.

   Ordinary titles that do not draw attention to the person looking at songs is another problem. How about this title- I love you? How original is that? Not very. There is a song that I love that talks about somebody missing a soldier who didn't come home from the war. The theme of the song is about how much he was missed and loved. The title could of been, I love you. The title of this song is I Drive Your Truck. When I hear that title I wonder what is that song about. It catches my interest. 

   I wrote a song that I love the title. It is called, Stealing Jesus.. What do you think this song is about after reading the title? Listen to the song and see if you were right on where I was going with this title.  

    We all have our struggles. We have struggles at work, home and basically, anything we do or touch. I remember one struggle I had on learning to play the guitar. Barre chords. A barre chord is where you take your index finger and lay it across all six strings and press down hard. They with your other three fingers you play your chords. My struggle was pressing down hard enough to get a good sound out of my guitar.

     Part of my problem was that I was playing an acoustic guitar. It is so much easier to play barre chords on a electric guitar. The strings are easier to push down and they might me closer to the frets. I say might be. This probably depends on how good of a acoustic guitar you own and how low the action is set up on the guitar. I have owned some pretty bad guitars in my life. Guitars where the strings were higher off the fretboard that they should of been. I am sure that this didn't help with the learning curve.

     My songwriting struggle is when I go to write a song. I have a hard time turning off the editor. Let me explain who the editor is. Let' say the line I write down is- I like creamer in my coffee. A nice simple line. The editor in me says, I need to fix this line before I write my next thought. So I change it to- I love creamer in my coffee. Oh yeah, that is better but I want more details. I love hazelnut creamer in my coffee. Do I really need the I ? I don't think so. Love hazelnut creamer in my coffee. How about an adjective to describe my coffee?  Love hazelnut creamer in my morning coffee. Okay, I like that alot better. 

      It tales longer to write a song when you let the editor in at the beginning of the process. I wrote a song this week and I was able to get down a couple verses and chorus before he took over. The more work you can get done without the editor getting involved the faster the process can go?  Sure, I might throw away one of those verses and not use a single word but I might use one verse and not have to change a thing.

      Try to write your songs without editing for first fifteen minutes of your writing session. If you can go longer great. if you can thirty minutes that is even better. The more ideas you get down the better. You will have more material to edit. The more material you have to edit the better your song will be. This keeps you from having to switch back and forth between being creative and being in editor mode.  

     This is my song that I just had demoed and got back this week. Usually, I send it off to get songs evaluated before I post them but decided to let my friends and family hear it first. The names of the song is Love you More. It is hard to write a love song. Everybody writes love songs. The hard part is writing one that is personal and universal. Personal is that it means something to me, Universal is when it speaks to others. Hope this song does both. Thanks for listening. 

   I am not very responsible. I lost my phone. No, I'm not a teenager but I do know where I left it. I took my grand daughter, Ella to Lake Shawnee to play at the park. I was taking a break and sitting on a table looking at my phone. Ella came over and we started eating sunflower seeds. Let me clarify, I was cracking sunflower seed shells and Ella was eating the seeds. Then I taught her how to break them open with her teeth and remove the seed herself. I remember setting my phone down on the table but I never picked it up.

    The bad part was I didn't even miss it. I missed it when I was going to bed and I couldn't find the phone to charge it up. I did a thorough search and called the phone. Calling the phone did not do me any good. I went to church in the morning and I turned off the ringer. The ringer was still off. 

     It was time to go to the computer and do an Iphone search. I was able to locate my phone as it traveled around Topeka. I watched it go from here to there for an hour and a half. It made the rounds around east Topeka and then it stopped. Where did it stop? At the Topeka Police Department. I watched as it went from the parking lot into the building. I got a call from the police department saying, My phone had been turned it. Thank you to whoever turned in my phone. I appreciate your kindness,