It wasn't like writing the gospel songs required by her superiors. That was incredibly difficult; she couldn't squeeze out a single melody until the final deadline.
Astrid wrote swiftly on the paper, and soon she had a rough draft of the entire song.
Then came the lyrics. This part was a little difficult. Her native language wasn't the common tongue, but for the show, she would have to sing in a language everyone could understand.
Trying to make the words rhyme was a real struggle.
The final lyrics were barely passable, with some parts sounding a little awkward. But it would have to do; her proficiency in the common tongue was only good enough for this level of writing.
'It's true that when you're writing lyrics, you'll write all sorts of strange things just for the sake of a rhyme.'
'If worse comes to worst, I'll just say it's artistic. Anything that can't be explained can be justified as being for the sake of art.'
