Had to laugh. I bought a pre-amp booster, not a Rooster, to ‘big-up’ the volume of my old 1970s dynamic Shure SM58 USA built microphone. This specific dynamic microphone, used in my Mac home studio set up here, sounds like a distant whispered voice somewhere across the Universe when being recorded on. Useless without such ‘modern booster energy’ applied. So was pleased that its now increased volume/sound will now be adequate for future recordings.

I sent this audio below to my brother to listen to. No explanation in typed words. Just in the sung presentation. He thought it was going to be a new song. And when he realised, ‘Nope!’…he laughed too.

It made me think of the thousands of musicians on stage or in a studio standing at the microphone sound check before a live gig or recording. Is ‘Testing, Testing, 1,2,3,4’ used by everyone! Why not just sing…

Then I thought of the four possible lyrics you could choose to substitute the 1,2,3,4 choice. Man! It was a hard choice from initial choices aplenty. All my quick attempts falling short miserably. And in essence, that is what song writing is about. To get an iconic and profound opening group of introductory lyrics for a song is a little gift from the heavens. To sing four opening words or more words for a phrase to fit the 1 to 4 space rhythm and make an impact. Opening song lyrics that go straight to a listener’s heart, pull on those heartstrings and resonate emotionally with specific impact is really difficult. A lightbulb lyrical moment in how to get the right vibe.

Have a go at it. Choose an opening lyric line yourselves to start up the rest of a song’s story possibility. No limits to four singular notes either. You can jump outside those notes sung here and produce 5,6,7 different lyrics in the opening here for the rest of the song.

This is the loveliness of songwriting. The Wording Lyrical World is your oyster.