i wish i had written. # so she took her love for to gaze a while # upon the fields of barley # in his arms she fell # as her hair came down # among the fields of gold you know the process of songwriting is kind of mysterious, to this day i m not quite sure i understand it. i m very happy when it comes, but there is no formula. my satisfaction at finishing a song lasts about 20 minutes and then i get anxious about where the next song is coming from. i wondered, as a professional songwriter, have you been watching the ed sheeran copyright trial? yes. what did you make of that? i was glad that ed won. i think the building blocks of music we hold in common, all of us, common writers.
time you hear yourself on the radio. that is incredible. and then you write what is i think the most played radio song of all time. # every bond you break # every step you take # i ll be watching you. # it s interesting because the song that did have that position before that was you ve lost that loving feeling by the righteous brothers. now, that s one of my favourite songs of all time and i think it s from 1966, so i was 1a, 15 at the time. for one of my songs to supersede that, i still can t quite get my head around. i wondered, as a professional songwriter, have you been watching the ed sheeran copyright trial? yes. what did you make of that? i was glad that ed won. i think the building blocks of music we hold in common,