the nostalgic emo kid

I don't know what it is that drives my music making skills, but I seem to lack the ear for the abstract. Contrast that with my strong ear for writing generic pop-rock tunes with sappy nostalgic lyrics, which for some reason I'm just good at. Nostalgia is a great source of lyrical material no matter how cliche it gets. Why not take advantage of those resources? I'm writing one right now because I got some strange strong influence from a photograph of a certain female.