Well, I always felt if I have to explain it, I am not getting it across in the lyric. Again, this is the kind of song I'm learning doesn't typically get cut these days. Still, there is something to be said for trying to put something unique in a song lyric. I had a friend whose mother had Alzheimer's. She was in a nursing home in a town a couple of hours away and her husband was trying to live his life, going to church and trying to just get along. She was still his wife and knew she was married but couldn't remember his name. I was touched not only by her plight but by his. I stirred in a little personal emotional experience and there you have it.
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Probably not the kind of song anyone is cutting right now; but I got the idea after working late one night and coming home tired. There was a big moon shining down through the locust tree and I thought a beer sounded good, hence a "having a beer with the moon." As I recall, I had supper instead and went back to my music room to write the idea down. The concept of the song was to use an AABA form, to make it conversational, and to use as few words as possible. to get my idea across. That form is seldom used today but has its charm and a ton of old pop songs were written that way. Also, in this song, the moon-tune rhyme was so obvious, I wondered if offsetting it with an inner rhyme of equally cheesy tear-beer would work.
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