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What happened, and why I have this website?

Since 2017 I have been in five automobile accidents. One in particular was life altering. The brain injury I sustained has left me with virtually no short-term memory, near daily migraines, and most days I struggle to keep my thoughts on the tasks at hand.

I have always had music in my head since I was in my teens, complete with lyrics, and sometimes just the poetry of the words themselves. For over four decades I have been a ghostwriter in the music industry providing the music to complete both music and film projects. Effectively a hired gun as it were. Many of my songs have been sold to individual artists as well. They have made them their own, which is nice to hear their version of the song. This gift I have has been financially, as well as personally, rewarding and enriching.

After the car accidents I have lost the ability to transcribe the music in my mind to a format where it can exist without me. I have been unable to make this leap primarily due to the loss of my short-term memory and the migraines that I still have. Technology, specifically voice to text transcription software, has allowed me to move the words from my mind to a more permanent electronic format. The music that accompanied the words is lost to time since that is the complex portion of any song.

This website will serve as an online journal of the words that have managed to escape, and I am offering them to the world. Perhaps they will spark a response from the public, perhaps a creative individual will marry them to music of their own. In the end this website is here for me, as it will contain the daily posting of words to my Silenced Songs.

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