Writer's Block: Song needs 2 lines

[Mikaela D'Eigh]

I know I'm not alone. You start writing words like mad, the ideas are pouring out of you and then.....everything goes dark. Argh!

I have more unfinished poems, songs and stories than I care to admit! So I figured, with such a wonderful group of contributors and readers on these forums, would anyone be interested in helping me write a couple of lines for a song I composed? :-)

[pierregambotsky]

Why don't you just go ahead and post the song up to where you have it?

[cristina]

Another thing you can do is write whatever last two lines you can think of, no matter how lame. Sometimes, powerful lines can come out of lame lines.

[Mikaela D'Eigh]

I've written some very cheesy lines in the hopes they would turn into something poetic. Nothing yet! Here are the lyrics I have so far:

(c) 2006 Silver Scroll Productions

I know why she cries
She doesn’t want to say goodbye;
And I can understand
He’s her whole world
The only man
She’s ever loved, ever loved.

How do you let go
Of someone you’ve loved so long ago?
Someone who is stronger
Who’s loved you
Even longer
Then you dreamed they would.
And it was good.

And when I look at them
And then I look at you
I wonder is it worth the pain? know we’ll be going through.
I have loved and lost before
And always swore
I’d never do it again.
But here I am.

?
?
Someday I know
We’ll have to let each other go
Until then, hold on to this truth.

[Bernardo]

Mikaela, so for those two lines... do you simply not know *what* to write? Or just *how* to write it? What's your idea for what those lines should express? I think getting that clear would be a good starting point.

[Mikaela D'Eigh]

I don't know how to say it. The song is about fear of losing someone and the pain associated with a loved one's death. The questioner looks at an old married couple and to them the good of the relationship is obscured by the present pain that the wife is going through in seeing the decline and death of her husband.

By the third verse, however, the questioner has come to the conclusion that although there will be pain and they know that "someday we'll have to let each other go," love is worth it.

So what's missing in those two lines in the 3rd verse?