Musical Ideas

Late at night, I become a musical savant.

I can never put any of it down. I am pretty much musically illiterate and so I can't figure out the notes.

But some nights, and I can never really know when, when I go to bed, or when I'm just waking up, I can not only hear music, I can compose music. Stunning, amazing pop music that would set the pop charts on fire, that people would sing from here to Bombay in bars and pubs on every street corner and through the headphones of every teenager's bedroom.

Then I enter into waking life and it's all gone.