Common Song Structures

It never hurts to have a quick refresher on possible song forms. Today, I wrote a song (Soliloquy) and began by first writing the three verses. The first verse sets the stage and touches on the idea of an imaginary epic LOTR-esque narrative:

An illuminated manuscript, A sword of the finest steel
A mission fraught with peril, as I savor my last meal
And it feels to me It feels like my last
Breath should really be an endless soliloquy
So I better write it Better write it down

The second verse initiates another similar imaginary and equally familiar spaceman narrative, carving out the start of a larger context for the parallel verses:

The stars look so peaceful As I glide along through space
Looking for a planet That might save the human race
But it’s been years since I’ve been gone From the planet I called home
I miss my wife and family I wonder if they still remember me

For the third verse, I opted to be less "particular" and also to blur together the different references to narratives and performance:

The stories have no endings The speakers have no lines
The costumes all are borrowed and the music’s out of time
And when the final dancers stop to take their bows
It feels like that should be my final soliloquy
So I better write it Better write it down

Repeating the eponymous concept of the Soliloquy as a unifier. At this point, I considered making the song with only the three versions (at just under 3 minutes and with some instrumental extension ending each verse) but decided for the sake of contrast to add a bridge between the second and third verse, taking the oppotunity to mirror the parallel of the initial verses and refer somewhat subtly to the Soliloquy:

Someday I’ll go home
And when the dragon’s dead
I will let my weary feet head to the road

Someday I’ll breath that air that I need
And slowly start to read aloud
The words that for so long have been my silent reverie