No, it's not Albanian at all, it's English. But my latest lyrics are written to match a tune that is sung in Albanian. I didn't understand a single word! Neither do I have the faintest idea what the song may be about: Boy and girl stuff, probably, but...
After outlining the basic structure and content of my song lyrics I gather material. The first verse is to deal with traces the Romans left in today's world. I therefore scanned the internet for ideas: temples, theaters, amphitheaters, aqueducts, roads,...
Okay, okay - that was not how Craig envisioned the song. I had thought as much. I reshaped my 2nd version of "Hold on" slightly by shifting the second 'pre-chorus' to its appropriate place. And I will write yet another version with verses, prechoruses,...
It's called: "I don't need her love" (MotorPlanet). I don't actually care much for the title, yet the songs has already been performed - without proper lyrics! - under this title, and the lines "I don't need her; I don't love her" stand out , so I had...
I've altered the first verse slighly. It now reads "they would stand by you all the same" instead of "I would stand by you all the same". This harmonizes better with the third verse that goes: you're smile simply sets them all ablaze for you they'd take...
Isn't that amazing: I've written about 120 lyrics that have not been set to music yet - or that were written to match someone else's music but have never been published - yet none will fit the chord progression I recorded recently. Most of my lyrics seem...
The song has the structure: verse - lift - chorus - verse - lift - chorus - guitar solo - chorus - verse - lift - chorus - chorus. The lift varies a little, basically it has four lines with three syllables each. You can't squeeze too much meaning into...
I just published my third comprehensive lyrics collection. It contains 73 new lyrics, 4 re-writes or alternative versions, and 3 collaboratively written lyrics (with no creative commons license). Two lyrics have not yet been published anywhere else ("a...
There are two - slightly incompatible - concepts of copyright. The European understanding of copyright distinguishes between the personal rights, like being acknowledged as creator, and licensing issues. In the US these aspects are blended so you can...
Craig is interested in setting my lyrics (see: "two quickies") lyrics to music. Yet he suggested to insert an additional line in the chorus, and to add two verses instead of simply repeating the two verses from the beginning. To obtain a good flow I proposed...
I wrote "I want to live between your thighs" yesterday during my lunch break (I won't post it right here, but you can find it if you look for it). Today I came up with "listen to the music" (boring title, I know). I had it completely in my mind on my...
I put down a few lines to see what I could do about them. Later I decided that they were suitable for the bridge rather than a verse or the chorus. This is probably the first time I've begun creating song lyrics starting with the bridge: what were the...
Meetings can be boring at times. I put down a few lines during such phase: the bread was stale, the butter smelly, my stomach would revolt I was worried that yet again my car could strike or bolt the phone was ringing, the coffee cold, time was running...
... of hypocrisy. My song "Sabrina" - its YouTube version - was deleted from two songwriting forums for its indecency. Both forums are located in and frequented by people from the so called "Bible Belt". That's where people favor the death penalty, claim...
While working on the bass and drum tracks for "8A" I discovered that I will need an additional verse. The original version of "spill blood" had only three verses whereas "8A" requires four. This is what I wrote: girl you hurt me and you drive me bonkers...
I wasn't happy with the slightly different structures of the verses. Not that there had been true rhymes in any. Verse two reads: one day you packed your things to leave Pa and Mum you hit the road to find your path towards the sun no-one barring you...
Will be the next MotorPlanet song I'm writing the lyrics for. Holger and I agreed on a 'cheer up'-song: a girl finds herself down and out (I'm going to avoid this very expression because it already has been used once too often) after an 'easy life'. The...
I told you about my scrap book that's actually a text file on the computer. It's where I put down my ideas that eventually may or may not become the spark for new song lyrics. After pillaging the scrap book for a while it's time to add new 'scraps' or...
My first version of the chorus went: no, he is no war hero just one more casualty his accomplishments were zero some sad fatality I didn't like the similarity of "casualty" and "fatality", though, and it was rather short, anyway. The extended version...
The headline is a mere teaser! Sorry for this ;-) As you may know, or may not know, I don't write exclusively for anybody, not even for myself. There are three exceptions at the moment. These are co-writes with other authors. Two song lyrics were written...
My lyrics were difficult to sing, so Svein left superfluous words (notes) out - that I had put in originally only to match the tune as closely as possible - or changed the order of words here and there. With one exception he also altered the chorus: and...
I think I'll soon publish my third 'big' lyrics compilation. Publishing them in an ordered manner on a server that has an accepted and reliable publishing policy helps proving my copyright. After "Bernd's first hundred lyrics" and "Bernd's second hundred...
Actually there's a choice of Ron's version: Cast away this outer shell keep my desire within Replace my own persona with what you see in him ... and my own lunch time inspiration: I just hang around the bar and drown my misery in beer I admire you from...
Actually, I think the lyrics are done. Yet maybe I'll add a bridge. That would have to be a posthumous bridge ;-) the big boys all jumped o'er the ditch bordering the meadow I was young, I was small, I just tried to follow I took a run, I took a breath,...
Probably it was recording "chew me up" this morning that inspired me to write more 'weird' sex stuff. Fun stuff, actually, that I couldn't possibly post and discuss on the songwriting forums from the 'Bible Belt'. They had already deleted "Sabrina". Well,...
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