I've been writing lyrics for almost five decades now. Had a few tentative starts to collaborations with some friends long ago, but life events always led us in different directions. Literally, their jobs would take them out of the city. out of the state, out of the country. One would think that I would have given it all up by now. However, the lyrics keep coming anyway, whether in part or complete. I hear or see or think of a phrase, and the lyrics come. I've probably lost or forgotten more partial songs than I remember or have written down. Every once in awhile, one of the old ones that I thought I had forgotten just pops back up. It seems most of the songs I sing in my head are my own, whether recent or from long ago. But the only musical instrument I ever played was drums/percussion, so the music is just trapped up there in my head. Someday, I would like to actually be able to hear it.