It's a rather short one, yet it seems to say all there is to say: doin' my Friday shopping I think I've got all I need today I'll do the cooking I've got a few mouths to feed then comes the chorus: I'm standing in the row, I'm next in line ... The outstanding...
A little fun ditty that I wrote on my vacation. With exception of the bridge I actually had the whole song in my mind while hiking, it matched the walking rhythm so nicely: Dolly don'tcha do me Dolly don'tcha do me Dolly don'tcha do me tonight you got...
I am a commuter. Day in, day out the same stretch to work and back again. And I'm supposed to call myself lucky if I'm going on commuting for further five years. Lucky, my gosh! I'm going by train. There's the advantage that I can read during the ride...
My favorite three-piece blues-rock band has become a four piece band. With Nici they have gained additional femal vocals. This means that more lyrics will have to be written from a female perspective. Holger has sent two new songs that still lack lyrics....
My lyrics "wait and see" aren't understood. After writing "let's procratinate", giving the term a positive meaning (take your time), I wrote "wait and see", giving that phrase a negative touch. Which doesn't seem to work. I think, I'll change the lines...
that is: not counting rewrites and cowrites. "fish or cut bait" is number 300. Two different lyrics share the same title: "up to you". If you're a composer (musician, producer) you have the chance to find the perfect lyrics for your song within these...
... will be the title of my new song. In my last post I had mentioned that it would need a very strong chorus because it consists of nothing much else ;-) Yet, how do you create a strong chorus or a good 'hook'? By repetition! At least, that is the easiest...
... awaiting Holger's approval. I wrote another verse that I'll use as first verse: what I think 'bout our last time? I'll tell you quite frankly it wasn't my night that night you'd come too fast again not for the first time you left me unsatisfied And...
The FIRST VERSE I wrote - and the first (and last) verse it also will be - goes: no excitement, neither fun that was life to her nothing to look forward to inside something stirred It's rhyming scheme is X A X A instead of A B A B as in my dummy lyrics....
It looks like I may have to write about Medusa. My partner actually seems to have already written a verse and some additional lines for the prechorus. Since I know next to nothing about the Medusa myth - I just remember the images of a head with snakes...
Yet again, I have a backing track completed without the slightest idea as for the tune - I mean the vocal line - and the lyrics. The music doesn't sound aggressive, it's rather a modest steady rock sound, I'd say. Nonetheless, the words I seem to come...
thought police their cameras capture each move when you're in town they track your handy when you walk around they gather information, but they're out for more they ignore your rights and they bend the law they've got the means, they've got the expertise...
This could become the chorus of yet another text. At the moment it's just an entry for the 'scrap-book' as there is no story behind it yet: we're in this together we cannot escape come rain and bad weather it will be our fate at the end of our tether...
The question mark indicates that I'm not yet quite happy with what I had put down as a chorus the other day: so don't give me no crap size matters and that is that size matters let it show so you can see it make it grow so you can feel it size matters...
yet another piece of text dealing with losing one's footing: wading through black waters on a lightless day I can feel the tide dragging my feet away neither sign nor beacon that could light my way I may lose my mind in this endless grey I can't remember...
"... may make it to what?", you might ask. To full blown lyrics is what I meant. I've not had a hit so far, there is not even a properly produced CD or so (the Selfastrays are about to change this, at least). I'm happy if my lyrics reach some kind of...
... by Daniel. He asked to keep our collaboration a secret. Well, what can be more secret than an public blog? Just asking! First step: listen to his tune several times (here Midi trumpets stand for the vocal parts) trying to figure out which parts are...
... or a secular requiem. I'm sort of planning my own funeral ;-) Well, it's just a mind game, and, as for me, it can keep on being just a mind game for quite a few years to come. I suggested the song cycle on a discussion board, stating that I had already...
Two verses: hasn't been my day today the odds stacked against me all I touched I seemed to break a dressing-down at work it was all shame on me because once more, I was too late ... and you know, I was looked down on I was bedded on roses my life has...
I wrote another verse and a bridge: Verse: when did you last | see things with sober eyes when was your life less of a mess when did you last | smile or laugh aloud and feel true happiness - I'm not THAT happy with the "when - when - when" beginnings...
If I had got him right, Marian thought about a song in the manner of "paradise by the dashboard light" when he suggested writing a duet. That's a song by Jim Steinmann - to honor the WRITER where most people think only of the artist when commenting on...
I'm not writing (for) country music. But Craig uses my lyrics every now and then, casting them into country tunes. To make them fit he often adjusts their phrasing, making them more conversational (and American). Now, he had "cut and run" evaluated by...
Yet another rewrite. I wrote "Motorplanet" more than ten years ago, if I remember correctly, when Holger and I began our collaboration. My own version was - due to my limited musical skills - say, rather unconvincing. Holger wrote music, and I adapted...
"top secret" is and will not be the title of the song, it's just my - ironic - working title that I chose because the musician I'm writing for would like to keep the lid on this project. With regard to the lyrics he won't succeed as you could tell from...
I did the 'meter-check' and decided that I can leave the lyrics as they are. Just one miniature twist: I just point out | what is obvious ["is" instead of just "'s" gains me an additional syllabe that makes this line fit better] I also observed that "see...
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