Song 402: Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week on the playlist you’ll find The Part That Repeats by my good friend Gregg Cagno, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. This clever musical message about the intersection of songwriting and romance touches on a subject we both know well, and I would readily echo his thoughts about how The Part That Repeats fits into the picture, both in relationships and in melodic narratives about them. In fact, if you'd like to understand more about the craft of writing a song, you might do well to spend some time studying the lyrics of this tune. While, as the old saying goes, rules are made to be broken, generally, you would start off with a line about love gone bad, and after that, list all the things you've done since she split, and how that makes you feel like shhh… Then, upon crossing over a short bridge, you would wrap it all up in the third verse, always coming back to The Part That Repeats in the appropriate places. I personally feel his words fill in the whole scene pretty well, but if, after hearing and absorbing the complete track, you still have unanswered questions about these instructions, surely Gregg would gladly fill you in.
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