My music writing life  life has always been composer guy and songwriter guy (excuse the Seinfeldism).. I think songwriting is an intuitive process: Ideas and inspiration take control.  Then words, melodies and sounds come into my mind and I make very fast decisions, rejecting and accepting.  Once these ideas are in place, composer guy comes in and organizes this content. Composer guy says, "Did you really want to syncopate this line, because you did not syncopate the last ...