My Subconscious

I be hatin' it again.

Don't think I mentioned this the first time it did it, but about a month or so ago I was asleep and dreaming, and in my dream we were at some nice restaurant/cafe that had live entertainment. There was a woman on stage - just her, her guitar and the microphone - and she was singing this song. I woke up only a few seconds into it with one line stuck in my head. Like, really stuck. I assumed it was a real song that was stuck in my head and promptly googled the only line I knew, to figure out what it was so I could listen to it and get it out of my head, to no avail. It didn't exist. I had a single line from a non-existent song stuck in my head and no way of getting it out.

So I wrote the damn thing. I have no knowledge of music whatsoever so it was damnably difficult and took days, during which time I was completely unable to write any actual prose as every time I tried my head was singing that one line over and over. Ugh. But I did it, and it got out of my head, and I thought that was that.

And then this morning I woke up with a whole chorus of a song stuck in my head. Didn't really recognise it, so sang it to Rambo to see if he knew it. He did not. Googled the lyrics I knew, no results. Now, if Google doesn't know what it is, and Navi* doesn't know what it is, it sure as hell doesn't exist. My subconscious is demanding I write songs again. A few days before the end of the month when I'm trying to write my screamprompt, and am behind writing blog posts, and have a lot of coding to do. No, fuck all of that, I have to write a song.

Fucking subconscious. Fucking dreams. Fucking song-writing. I did not sign up for this.






*There is a small part of Rambo's brain that is constantly listening out for music. It can find it in anything - the accidental melody in a yawn or cough or someone knocking on the door, or the real melody of very quiet music that nobody else can hear. Once it finds a melody, it promptly tries to get Rambo's attention by going 'Hey! Hey you! Listen! Look, you know this! Hey, pay attention! Hello!' until he listens, and sings along.