You Can Write A Song About Anything

On Ordinary Inspirations, Gardens & Conversations

Songs come about in the most ordinary of ways sometimes.

Back in 2008, I wanted to test my songwriting chops and decided to try to write a song about some everyday kind of thing, that sounded like it was maybe about something more important. I’d had a kind of Arabic sounding insistent guitar riff needling away at me that I used as the backdrop. I had bee…