What is a song?
Is it a rhyme?
Is it a mystery?
Is it a crime?

These words on paper
What will they be?
Without music
What does this mean to me?

What is a riff?
Numbers on a page
Without my guitar
Can it be played?

These words on paper
What will they be?
Without the music
It means nothing to me

What is music?
Is it a sound?
Can we hear it?
Or can it be found

These words on paper
Can they be?
The music the sound
Everything to me

How will I know?
What I’m playing
Without music riffs or words
What is a sound?

With the words on paper
The ideas in my head
Sure the rest will come later
This song on paper

Written in 2003