iner Notes
This is a cheerleading song to get us all sitting in our chairs welcoming what arises. Anthony Trollope suggested cobbler's tack to stick a writer to the chair as the secret to becoming an author. He wrote three pages every morning, which is what Julia Cameron suggests in The Artist's Way - though Trollope's went right into an envelope, and Cameron suggests never reading them or letting anyone else read them.

Anyone (and everyone) is welcome to make music for this one, since it feels like a message we all need to hear in our own voices.

#meta #needs_collab #collaborations_welcome #needs_music #artists_way #inspiration #how_to

Lyrics
Stick You to a Chair

You can write your morning pages
You can buy yourself some paint
You can magic marker sticky notes
You can stick them where they ain’t
You can make your affirmations
You can stick 'em everywhere
But sooner or later, you’re gonna have to stick your self - - - to your chair
Yeah, sooner or later you’re gonna have to stick your self - - - to your chair

Can you sit there
Are you too afraid to choke
Can you sit there
Let your muses take a smoke
Can you sit there
Can you sing
Can you sit there
Can you write
Can you sit there while you’re sure it is never gonna be all right

While you write your morning pages
When you buy yourself some paint
While you magic marker sticky notes
When you stick 'em where they ain’t
While you make your affirmations
When you stick 'em everywhere
When sooner or later, you finally stick your self - - - to your chair
Yeah, sooner or later you’re gonna have to stick your self - - - to your chair

Cause you can’t make art by meaning to
You can’t make it by making plans
So go on settle down
Let's see just how much sitting you can stand 

Go on sit there
Don't be too afraid to choke
Go on sit there
Let those muses take a smoke
Go on sit there
You can sing
Go on sit there
You can write
If you can sit there, I can promise you it's all gonna be all right

So write your morning pages
Open your new paint
Magic marker your sticky notes
Stick them whereever they ain’t
Make your affirmations
And now stick 'em everywhere
Sooner or later, you're gonna learn how to stick your self - - - to your chair
Yeah, sooner and later, keep learning how to stick your self - - - to your chair

©Lyrics Nancy Cunningham July 2023