Because: - I dreamed in songs. I lived music. I watched vicariously. I couldn’t escape it. Regardless of how terrible it got, it persisted and I had to play and sing -but instead I worked for decades in law firms, as a legal word processor. Processing their words, my words, everyone’s words - as a legal term, ANTEDATE means: To, put a date to an instrument of a time before the time it was written. - effectively: an antedated record is a predated document - it also sounds like a record record - time is a construct - I wrote songs waiting for some later time when I would “do something with them” and then give reference to when they were written - so now? Maybe. Or they’ll be further antedated down the line This is why