Writing less

For ages I had Wordless chorus from My morning jacket in my head. This is a song that really takes the voice as an instrument seriously and allows it to do its own thing a bit and chart a melody separate from the underlying, simple chord structure and the lyrics themselves. Often when I'm writing songs I'll write way too much -- and also the stuff I write has too much of a literal note for word arrangement. I should write less and allow the voice to do more. Let it stretch out some words and part of words and clip others.