It's the music for me. The lyrics seem to come later. Generally, I just 'like' a song until I work up my own rendition on the guitar. Some work out, some don't. For instance, I never really liked Heaven Help The Devil until I was fooling around with the guitar one Sunday morning and worked out my own accompaniment, which, by the way, is completely different than Gord's version.
I remember when I was in my teens, trying to figure out how he played IYCRMM. It took me something like 20 years to figure it out, but now that I have it, it's always one of the first songs I play when I pick up the guitar.
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