Where do ideas come from?

When it comes to lyrics, I find it especially interesting that many of the questions I hear seem to involve some iteration of the phrasing where do they... *come  from.*  
If I feel "blocked" -- the thing that helps me, most of all, is just to stop trying so hard.  

MATAMOROS, MEXICO - taking a break during the recording of the electroacoustic concept album and sound art piece "Submadreamgun" (Alex Sharp Cole) -- the completed version of which was presented later that year at an art exhibition in San Francisco. ("Into the Hollow")