(oh yeah)

step on a crack, sorry i broke your back
my eyes were wild in your photograph
and i remember i just could not stop laughing like that

in my mind there's a place
a sort of retreat, an escape
i'll you when the time is right
meet me at the black lodge tonight

they say that i am just a wild girl
that kind of shit makes my blood curl
i'll find you when the time is right
but you know i won't sleep tonight

does it make you feel alright
when we are going on that ride
living a life i couldn't hide
maybe, maybe they were right

maybe i was too wild
maybe i was too wild

maybe we were too wild
baby, we were wrong
maybe we were right
baby we're on fire

maybe i was too wild

I am a 'long suffering' songwriter.  What I 'suffer from' is a lack of ability to learn or play instruments or read music in real time from a staff with notes on it. Initially, I just wrote lyrics that no one would read.  So I began creating a capella vocal melodies that no one would listen to.  
     I learned to drag and drop notes onto a staff with software. . . which helped a little.  Microsoft came out with (for a little while) a software they called a music creator, but was actually just useful as a "chord generator".  That helped a little bit more.  I collaborated with talented musicians. . . and eventually found an incredibly talented professional musician who helped me to 'professionalize' some of my amateur offerings and didn't charge me money.  WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.  I had over 400 songs that were (according to musicians) "good ideas poorly played."  Then a friend suggested A.I. music.  Six months ago, the A.I. allowed me to create better music than I could manage on my own.  But it was "hit or miss."  A lot of work to make it do what I wanted instead of just letting it create what it wanted, and a lot of just plain luck involved.  THEN. . . within six months, the A.I. site allowed me to "cover my own songs," keeping MY vocal melody and vocal treatment (for the most part anyway) and MY (or my collaborators') instrumental melodies and finding far better and more professional instrumentation for the same melodies.  THAT was heaven.  I am truly blessed, and finally have justification for musical ideas I had as much as twenty five years ago.  Now, you can listen and evaluate whether it truly WAS worth sticking with it for the last thirty years.

maybe i was too wild

Amber Cavanaugh