The Songwriting of Live Options

[SJN1279]

In Ed's head, he is talking about how he has changed from rock and roll excess to finding god/family. Many of us here twist it into him singing about how he has changed to become a guy who backstabs his friends CC&P. This is probably the clearest way I can explain it here for someone who is new to the board

CCP had no problem taking 75 percent song writing credit and money for songs that Ed basically wrote 100 percent himself. I think that is a pretty crummy thing to do to a friend.

[Wambangalang]

Of course he did. His new album btw is called "I Lived". Did anybody know that? Amazing how you can play around with the name Live like that. I suggest however..., "Fucked".

On topic though, as a lyricist i believe it is/was Ed's job to drive the music thematically and conceptually. But can we get someone in here please, like a band member, to tell us if Ed did actually, as +Ed+ questions, write all of the parts that make up all or most or even some of the songs?... like did he sit there throughout the first ten years of album sessions and say to chad "ok, now you will do this", and to Pat, "now you will do that"...and so forth. Even if his creativity did drive the construction of the music, like the conductor of an orchestra, or the director of a film production, why did it take over a decade to decide that he deserves to be billed and rewarded financially for playing that role? And How did he think this would sit with fans who admired the brotherhood that was evident to us in all of the relevant media, like when ed stated so humbly that Live is and always will be "One plus one plus one plus one, equals LIVE"??