I think that's pretty good for one hand man. Can't wait to hear the song when you've finished it. It's sounding pretty good now.
But here's what's important...
The Attitude!!!!
That is the true masterpiece being completed right now! You have been f*cked over by your former band, and by your former girlfriend, you have been lied to and let down by some of your current band, a Motown has-been has tried and steal your talent (and diminish it) by him wanting to re-create you in his own image, and for another band, a band which is beneath your abilities.
You've wanted to quit. Probably many times.
And now this? This is like a final straw, or rather, isn't it a native american tribe that puts young men through a series of tests, of increasing difficulty, and by the end, they become men, receive a vision and it sets the path for their adulthood? Something like that.
THAT is what is happening to you bro!
You have been reborn through your struggles, and overcoming them. I sense a new attitude in you, that is going to pave the path for your future. This adversity has the power to defeat you, but instead, you have made it STRENGTHEN you. NOW, you have a new fire inside. You aren't going to take alot of sh*t lying down anymore. You are clear. You are ready to succeed, in ways you only dreamed of previously. You are not hoping for it any longer... you are DEMANDING it as your right!
It's
YOUR time. I think you know that. I think you feel that.
I get a strong sense of that too. You have turned a corner.
The end of this year for you, will be NOTHING like the beginning of it.
Things have changed. They have changed for the better.
Think often about that rite of passage I talked about. It is accomplished ALONE. You are the one finding your way through it to the end. No one else.
I think the victor gets a new name too.
Don't choose something like "Sh*tting Bear"
Make it cool!