songs that aren't mine.

sometimes when i hear a really good song, i think to myself:

i wish i wrote that song before they did.
if only they didn't write that song, maybe i would have thought of it sooner or later. (haha it's possible okay)

and then i think:

dang it! and now i can't write that song because they already did. the lyrics are already taken, the melody is already taken, i lose.

if i think about it logically, it doesn't really make sense. i mean i'm still allowed to play it and sing it, why does it matter whether i made it up or not? i think because i feel like the original writer has rights to the emotions or roots of the song that i don't or something. i don't know.

then again, i think a lot of stuff like that is also written from inspiration, and not directly from the persons brains. i think michael jackson was once in a situation where he wanted to carry out this idea he had, and one of his managers or something said to wait. and he said, i have to do this now, otherwise God's going to give someone else the idea.

haha