I generally gravitate to the music first before the lyrics. But as a writer, I still marvel at well-spun verses and choruses. This month, I’m joining the music Twitter community in #SeptSongLyricChallenge

Day 26

One day during high school, I turned on my new favorite radio station WDRE, the new WLIR. A song came on that had a different tempo, instrumentation and demeanor than the majority of the songs that the station played. It was The Beautiful South’s “I’ll Sail This Ship Alone”, my introduction to the band. It seemed to occupy that rare space of beautifully gut-wrenching. The melody was phenomenal. The juxtaposition of piano and horns was sublime. And the abrupt ending gave it that punch that comes with an unexpected conclusion.

“Well they said if I wrote the perfect love song, you would take me back. Well I wrote it, but I lost it. And now will you take me back anyway?”