I started writing in 1985, the same time as learning to play music. The most active bands and roles in each are:
Drummer - Imagined Perils
Keyboards - Response; In The Kitchen
Guitar - A&D (Arwen and Dad)
When posting a lyric the minimum number of phrase repeats necessary to convey the idea/story of the piece will be used.
In a park downtown
There is that one tree,
Close to the sidewalk,
The one with the bench;
...
It's crawling in you.
When the pain starts the cloud drops;
No silver lining.
The storm, this disease in you,
...
Mom won't want to go
Through that again. So
She will have her voice,
And this is her choice,
...
You felt,
you thought I knew,
but I didn't. Did I
come across as cold, unfeeling?
...