Oh, Thou Inconvenient Muse (Love At First Sight)

It was about Wednesday morning, 3 AM. (Seems appropriate somehow. Thanks, Paul.) I would be getting up an hour or two earlier than usual to go down to McCormick Place for a Microsoft DevDays presentation for work. But nature called and woke me up, so I shuffled off to the bathroom, and then back to bed.

And a couple of lines popped into my head. And grumbled, and bitched, and moaned, and said, Go write me down before you forget me, you idiot! Ok, fine. Back out of bed, into the office, find paper and pen, scrawl the lines, crawl back into bed.

By the way, here's the next couplet.

I'm going back to sleep.

No, you're not.

No, I wasn't. Grabbed the paper and pen, wandered into the library, and grabbed Gretchen's guitar, since it was handy and mine wasn't. About an hour later, I had the chorus, the tune for the chorus, and a possible tune for the verse.

Back to bed. I slept. Mostly.

Last night, I stayed up late and finished the song. The tune for the verse ended up getting discarded, but everything else stayed intact, with a couple of minor tweaks.

And here it is:
( Lyrics inside )

Oh, Thou Inconvenient Muse (Love At First Sight)

It was about Wednesday morning, 3 AM. (Seems appropriate somehow. Thanks, Paul.) I would be getting up an hour or two earlier than usual to go down to McCormick Place for a Microsoft DevDays presentation for work. But nature called and woke me up, so I shuffled off to the bathroom, and then back to bed.

And a couple of lines popped into my head. And grumbled, and bitched, and moaned, and said, Go write me down before you forget me, you idiot! Ok, fine. Back out of bed, into the office, find paper and pen, scrawl the lines, crawl back into bed.

By the way, here's the next couplet.

I'm going back to sleep.

No, you're not.

No, I wasn't. Grabbed the paper and pen, wandered into the library, and grabbed Gretchen's guitar, since it was handy and mine wasn't. About an hour later, I had the chorus, the tune for the chorus, and a possible tune for the verse.

Back to bed. I slept. Mostly.

Last night, I stayed up late and finished the song. The tune for the verse ended up getting discarded, but everything else stayed intact, with a couple of minor tweaks.

And here it is:
( Lyrics inside )