okay enough yammering here's my question: When writing your songs, are you usually putting words to music or putting music to words? I ask because I see you also used to do instrumentals. I'm woefully bad at lyrics, and a lot of the time I'm not even compelled to write them, because I stubbornly believe maybe the music I create will convey the emotions I'm trying to express on its own. Do you make your music with an emotion/other goal in mind and then write lyrics to m
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  or do you write your lyrics and then write music to match? If you do both, have you found that your final products tend to be different depending on your method, and in what way(s)?
for best results, i have to come up with the words and music at the same time. they rely on each other so much, i'm almost asking for trouble if i try to do it separately