Music as a Muse

Using music as a muse is a double-edged sword for me. I love it, and I hate it. On the one hand, when I'm listening to music my mind seems to have no trouble being creative. On the other hand, it takes a while for me to draw anything subtantial from that creativity, and the music is usually over by that point. For example, when we did the exercise in class using music as a muse, there were points where the music changed, and the new tone of the music gave my thoughts a new feeling that I wanted to express. by the time words came to mind, however, the music had changed again, dashing the words from my mind as it now struggled to find words for the new section. I wrote a poem on my own time using music as a muse, and I had to play the song on loop at least five times before I had enough material on the page to work with, and had to continue listening to it when editing to be able to organize it in the way I had thought of while musing.