About RKIriter

This page is about RKIriter — a personal project shaped by a lifetime of listening, curiosity, and a quiet fascination with how music manages to say what ordinary language often cannot.

RKIriter didn’t begin as a plan or a brand. It grew out of the habit of pausing when a lyric lingers, when a chorus feels heavier than it sounds, or when a song from decades ago suddenly makes sense in a new way. Some music announces itself immediately; other songs take years before they reveal what they were really talking about.

The writing here isn’t about declaring definitive meanings or ranking songs by importance. It’s about paying attention. Lyrics are explored as pieces of lived experience — shaped by time, memory, context, and the listener as much as the writer. A line that meant nothing at twenty can feel uncomfortably accurate at sixty.

RKIriter approaches music analysis without the usual critical armour. There’s no claim to insider knowledge, formal training, or musical authority. Instead, the perspective is that of a listener who has lived long enough to hear the same song through several versions of himself. That changing relationship with music is often where the real meaning hides.

This site sits alongside two other independent projects I run. MyMSisMe focuses on lived experience and life with multiple sclerosis, written from a first-person, reflective perspective. Walkeropedia is a growing collection of plain-English answers to everyday questions, driven more by curiosity than expertise. Together, they reflect different ways of making sense of the world — through music, through experience, and through asking better questions.

If you’re looking for rigid interpretations, technical breakdowns, or authoritative verdicts, RKIriter may feel deliberately incomplete. But if you’re interested in why certain songs stay with us, why lyrics resurface when we least expect them, and why music often understands us before we understand ourselves, then you’re in the right place.