The Music of Language (Cont.)

In the Wall Street Journal last week there was a piece about the history behind The Talking Heads' Burning Down the House track. This was a "music-first" situation, where the music drives the language, as well as the meanings (if any) that can emerge from it.When I write songs alone, I start with text fragments in the form of titles, single lines, phrases, or interesting couplets. If I have a