I was seventeen and listening to a presentation of new records on the radio. I wore earphones so as not to annoy my parents. The song I was listening to was very sad and tears were running down my cheeks. There had been other very gloomy songs before....
"A song about you" seems to be Karsten's working title. I had noted down its structure - its meter - like this: verses type A X - - X - - X - X - X - - X - - X - X - X - verses (chorus?) type B X X - X - - X X X - X - - X X X - - X - X - - - X - - X -...
This was a tough one. As easy it is to write for Blues Rock as hard is it writing text to fit a precisely composed melody. I had put down the meter like this: X - - X - - X - X - X - - X X - - X - - X - X X - X - X - - - X - X - X - - - X - X - X - -...
I think I've got a text for the chorus. The tune is always repeated once, so the text has two parts. I've numbered the lines here so I can refer to them in my comments more easily: 1. time has passed me by 2. since that fateful day 3. I'm too sad to cry...
I've listened to Karsten's Midi file again only to find that my former suggestion for a chorus is sheer bullshit. First, the tune is quite cheerful, so a text about remembering a failure did not exactly fit. Second, I missed the upbeat in the last verse....
you say that your life's a mess I say it's a game you say I don't have a clue I say that is all the same if you're the young man with no future I'm the old man with no past if you do not believe me then we both are badly cast you say you've had such high...
A bridge was missing. Now I've actually written two bridges: you lay the blame on everybody everybody but yourself your chances have to be provided to be chosen from the shelf may I humbly ask the question which part you are playin' in this which is your...
I have renamed my first proposal for Karsten's "a song about you" into "there was a time ...", and Karsten and I have agreed that we should give it a new go. So, here's my new suggestion for the chorus: my love has grown beyond compare I'm incomplete...
For a lyricist writing the lyrics first and have the composer set them to music obviously is the easy way. When I write for myself I normally start with an idea for the chorus. A few lines of text and the tune seem to come to my mind at the same moment,...
The Motorplanet version of "high enough" is one of my all time favorites. And I've decided to place it on my playlist for a little while as an example of what could be made of my lyrics. My own version is rather uninspired and crude in comparison, and...
"18" is another of Karsten's songs. Since the melody varies quite largely, and the last part seems to me to represent the idea best, I've startet working on it back to front. Karsten's working title refers to the time of coming of age, when you're are...
I found the missing link, i.e. bridge: don't get my back against the wall I need some space to breathe and roam do understand I'm not your thrall I'm not the man who'd stay at home Yet again I used http://www.rhymezone.com/ to find rhymes for 'wall'....
Time for a little celebration! It's Easter and this is my 100st (!) song text: brother were have you been spending all the time just one word from you would have removed the grime that had formed layers upon my sense of recognition brother it is time...
a minor change so the verses rhyme: we order a drink and we drink to the past we drink to a future still in doubt instead of: we drink to the future and the night The verse now rhymes with the last line of: the conversation runs dry but our silence still...
An improvement by Robert: "we run out of words" instead of "our conversation runs dry" - fits better with the tune. Not that it matters any more. Steffen has rejected the text, it's too lowbrow in his opinion (hey, what do YOU think?). Never mind, I like...
Martin suggested writing a song about cowboys. That's a subject as far from my former lyrics as one can possibly get (I mention Jakaroos, i.e. Australian cowboys, in one of my songs, but that has been my only contact with this topic so far). So, how do...
I have posted a few of my songs on the unsigned band web site. Bernd on UBW I also asked for reviews. Astonishingly, they did not come out as bad as I feared in spite of my rather lacking musical skills and crude arrangements. Spartacus: warm voice ,...
The "cowboy song" is supposed to become some kind of suite comprising an introductory spoken part and three short songs. I've concentrated on the second part that is sung: on a northbound drive from Texas moving slowly with the herd one with nature, one...
I was in rhyming mode today. And after finding that I've got stuck with writing for Karsten - the many triplets giving me the creeps, what the fuck can you sing to match triplets except "la la la", well, anyway, I decided to give Martin's cowboy suite...
The original bridge was meant to soften the message a bit, to let a little hope shine through the otherwise quite pessimistic lyrics. I've come up with an alternative bridge that leaves the text its dim and dark outlook: will we be devoured by the darkest...
I've come back to working at "out of control" today. Listening to a slowed down version I tried to match words with the notes. I then checked them with the Midi track at original speed so I could see if they would still be singable. This is what I have...
Four verses, two types of verses, the structure: verse A, verse A, verse B, verse B - that's rather uncommon, I've got to check if this will remain so. Holger mentioned that he's not quite satisfied with the arrangement. I'll also give the rough version...
The story: Zeus fell in love with the Phoenician princess Europa. He approched her in the guise of a beautiful white bull (he normally would disguise himself to escape his wife Hera's jealousy). Europy caressed the bull, and eventually even mounted him....
First I had put down words and phrases that could describe what a young man might look for or do at a weekend: look for action, rocket, look for thrills or kicks, get me high, hang out, ... get pissed (that made it!). After writing the first verse and...
... only two hours after my last post I've come up with a viable solution, at least I hope so. I'd come across the English pronunciation of "Zeus" which fortunately rhymes with "youth" - not a perfect rhyme, but a rhyme nonetheless. So, with a little...
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