You don’t just want to “use it anyway.” If a melody is already part of an existing song, then it belongs to the owner of that song, and is covered by copyright. So if you use their melody for your song, they could in theory sue you for lots of money. Actually, you aren’t likely…
In a moment I will refer you to an older post called “What to Write About.” I give some excellent suggestions there (if I do say so myself) about how to generate ideas. These will work for anyone, old or young, and I won’t repeat them here, so please do go read them, but first……
Start With a Title If You Can Writing a song is much easier when you already know the title. A good song title will: Tell you what the song is about Sound really cool when you repeat it out loud Suggest an attitude or emotion Sometimes a good title jumps out at you from…
