Overview of end of 2006 - Lights And Darkness and The Traveller Among The Lost

The rest of 2006 was mainly taken up by a writing project I set myself, which I have literally just this second given the title of The Traveller Among The Lost. In the middle of this, I also wrote a very quick (but very very important to me) song called Lights And Darkness. Even though I'm fairly positive no one reads this (*melodramatic sigh*), I'll talk about them a little bit below ...

Lights And Darkness - November - December 2006

This was written very quickly, over the course of just a few days at the end of November and beginning of December. Even though no one reads this, I'm still not going to post it here, it's too personal and I really don't feel comfortable about posting it still. Perhaps one day. Let's just say it was something I needed to write, in response to a something incredibly hard that was happening in my life at that time. Apart from me, only one other person has ever read this.

The Traveller Among The Lost - August 2006 - January 2007

While I was on holiday in Nottingham in the summer of 2006, I came up with (well, sort of "borrowed") a couple of ideas for song title that I thought were pretty cool: Lone Wolf (which was my MySpace username at the time ... I'd picked it to attempt to prove a point to someone who told me that I need other people far too much ... which incidentally, I don't think is too much of a failing in the grand scheme of things); and Lost Souls (which was written on a t-shirt I have). I also had an idea for a song called Steel, which would basically be a metaphor for getting closer to someone, and being apprehensive as to how it might turn out.

I decided originally to connect these three songs together, and write it as a sort of a story in song form ... three different songs, but which would connect to tell a story. I'm not sure why I decided this, perhaps it's because I came up with these ideas in pretty rapid succession. However, to start with, I had no idea what the story would be or how the songs would link up, and only vague ideas about what the songs would actually contain. Then I had another idea for a title: The Nemesis of The Lost, which came about as a result of brainstorming the Lost Souls song. So now I had four parts. Finally, I began to see how it might all fit together, and decided to add a fifth and final part to conclude it, which was originally called The New Beginning. So now I had the ideas, and over the next four months I concentrated on writing these songs, although I didn't begin to get any of them finished until November.

I'll post each of them in a separate post, with maybe a little bit of extra explanation if necessary. Remember, there's an overreaching story and theme, although it's a bit confusing, and I won't tell what it is. I'm really proud of this actually ... it's rather odd, but I actually achieved the two main things I set out to do with it: write a story in the form of songs; and don't make the meaning of it too obvious, cos I think a lot of my songs are too explicit in meaning.

Hope you enjoy them (hell, I hope someone reads them!), and as always, if a reader actually exists, please feel free to comment