The first day in the recording studio is always terribly depressing.

Always.

There is

no exception

to this rule.

 
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It's especially cruel, because I tend to forget about this, so it gets to me every single time.
 
There are various reasons for this. One of them being that it doesn't matter how well I am prepared, because there is always something that can and

will go wrong

. Always. --  Or that's how it usually appears ... (at first).
 
One of the things that seemed to trigger it this time was an old song that I wanted to redo, or rather the

discovery

that ALL the data for this track had been irreparably corrupted ... and that the complete recording was therefore lost

... - forever

.
 
 

Back in my hotel-room I felt absolutely

devastated

.

 
 
I went to the bathroom to change for the night … and as I undressed, I carelessly dropped my shirt to the floor. I was about to pick it up again, when I realised that it had landed in the shape of a

black bird

… -

a SYMBOL OF

DEATH

My first reaction was:

"Well, tell me something that I don't know already!"
 

But then I went to get my camera and made a photo of it after all. If only to demonstrate that the message had not been entirely unnoticed.
 
As I looked at the image captured on the display, I clearly sensed that there was more to this than the obvious. But I was too tired to think about it, so I went to bed.
 

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I woke up at 2:00am … bathed in moonlight … and with a

splitting headache

. I dragged myself to the open window and gazed at the night-sky. That's when I realised that there was a tune taking shape in the back of my mind … -

a

funereal

variation of the song that had been destroyed

.
 

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To cut the story short: we recorded this new version the following week … - and it turned out to be

SO MUCH BETTER

than the version I

originally

wanted to do!

 
Yes, the universe

is

'mental' after all...