Writing everyday about anything under the sun, is the directive for the student journals in the song writing course. One offered this pensive piece “over and over I experience the inability to control myself and fulfill my self-goals. I feel like a moron telling myself to do this or do that while always doing the opposite. Am I in control of myself or am I trapped on a roller coaster perpetually experiencing the climb and free fall? Truth is sadder than fiction.” After marking the journals I asked her if she would try to turn that one into a song and she said yes. A month later she sent me a link writing it was a song based on the passage I liked. I was excited but it turned out instrumental. At first I thought we misunderstood each other, then realized we didn’t.