Present, Past, and Future Tenses | Different Ways of Telling The Story
When crafting your song, try telling it in each of these tenses, present, past, and future. Just by changing the tense, you could seriously affect a change that turns your song from 'good' to 'great.' Here's an example: Present - "She's looking my way on this sunny day and I've got something to say." Past - "She looked my way on that sunny day and I had something to say." Future - "She'll look my way on a sunny day and I'll have something to say." You can even experiment with mixing you're tenses. If your story has a timeline, you could change the tense of the chorus to reflect the previous verse.