This is a text I've written for KJ. The structure of the song, as I see it, is: Verse - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Verse - Bridge - Chorus fell in love with you at first sight couldn’t get you off my mind you always look unworldly bright sometimes I wish...
Before uploading my 2009 lyrics collection to the Internet Archive I decided to proof read the former version. A friend of mine had called attention to a few rather embarrassing mistakes ("live" instead of "life", "presence" instead of "present"...),...
In my mind a rather daring little project is beginning to take shape. I read historical fiction once about Gilgamesh and discovered a translation of the original epic recently (based on the version of 1200 BC). In his comments the editor compares the...
If you think "whole lotta Rossie" when reading the headline - that's it, that's the direction the song is going to go. It has been off and on my mind since quite a while, and a recent discussion on Songwriter101 brought the idea back into my focus. I've...
This is another text that has to match an existing tune. It's structure is Verse - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Coda. Although these may not be my best lyrics they represent my credo in its purest form. stand by yourself like you're undercover you...
This may become the chorus: let your gaze wander from the top of the wall over the blooming land over courtyards, fountains, and flower beds let your thoughts wander and make sure to recall the time of glory and the great king of kings, called Gilgamesh...
Bernd (another Bernd) has produced the accompaniment for a new song and asked for lyrics that might fit. It's early April and I've sure had it with low temperatures and bad weather, so I came up with ideas for a summer song. This is what I've got so far:...
Obviously, Bernd - the other Bernd - will have to check if and how the lyrics match with what he has in mind musically. This is what I put together, referring to my Penguin Rhyming Dictionary quite heavily (the lagoon!). As you will note I also shifted...
Martin has provided quite a few guidelines. The song he has in mind is to be about a tramp who plays guitar for a living, drinks, has no home, but actually lives the life he wants. The verses are supposed to have two paragraphs with six lines each and...
Hooray! I actually deleted an entry from my scrap book. The title "against the odds" had rested there for quite a considerable time, now I've actually used it. Bernd O. had asked me to write a title "I see the sun", but somehow after listening to his...
a sheltered life when you were younger you've known the Brahman sophistication lived with ascetics, bore the hunger and practiced humble contemplation finding the flaw in the wise man's lectures to break the circle of reincarnation first seemed based...
... is the featured song of the month on my Lyrics Pages. So, maybe, its a good idea to present its lyrics here as well: the village was plundered the harvest destroyed the peasants were tortured young girls raped and slain futures erased and homes set...
You may have realized - or may have not - that I quite often write lyrics to match a tune somebody else has already finished composing. Not many lyricists are ready to work that way because it obviously can restrict your choice of words and lines considerably....
The structure of the song is (ignoring the instrumental parts): Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus Chorus. The bridge is rather weird, or, say, difficult to work with. Eight or nine lines, most with just three syllables, one with only one. In case...
My first revision after having access to Rhymezone again which seems to be(come) my favorite tool: no more trusting, no more lying no more longing, no more crying no more suff'ring, no more feeling no more hurting, no more healing no more hoping, no more...
First I intended to let the text begin rather harmlessly, in the manner "were my words too harsh", and "did I touch you too hard". But the expression "touch sb too hard" did not seem to work in English (in German it would be seen as a rude and sarcastic...
A tune sung over the phone, 1:26 minutes, rather complex, with a very short chorus... Jen also sent a text that I hoped I could use as a template, but then my syllable count told me that his own words did not fit with the melody. I began with the chorus....
Just two lines - the chorus: we are dancing in the rain while others run - away we are dancing in the rain to call the sun - again I wrote the second line first and checked rhymes for 'sun': fun, run, none, done, one, won... Not the greatest lyrics ever...
I re-wrote the bridge: though I hoped that I could find my place and I hoped to find some meaning though I hoped some day I could embrace a proud future that was gleaming Next comes the lift, so the sentence is sort of continued there: when I'm tryin'...
"twelve" is the working title I gave a riff - and later the arrangement around that riff - that I developed playing the twelve-string. I completed the arrangement today adding a simple bass line. Then I figured out how many text parts I would need and...
I've re-constructed the bridge by heart - probably even improving it a bit. It's not THAT long, anyway ;-) though they pester me with some emphasis in the end my unbelief will be their nemesis So, this is what the complete text looks like: Death and the...
I have exchanded the bridge so now the lyrics should make more sense. Although I like to be slightly cryptic ro ambiguous once in a while, I still aim for my lyrics to be understandable, of course, at least on an emotional level. "love to be loved" had...
... which means Blues, or rather Blues Rock. Kai from Norway was looking for a lyricist who would find words to his music. I found his post on an American songwriting board. Fortunately, that approach is kind of my speciality, so we got together rather...
I often wonder how a lyricist possibly can have 'writer's block'. There are more ideas everywhere around you than you would be able to write about within your lifespan. The other day I read about a thumb that had fallen from the sky, possibly being dropped...
Now that I've decided what subject to write about I should gather a few ideas or basic concepts. Actually I copied lines of text when I first found an article about the thumb that fell from the sky. I googled "thumb" and "dropped" to find quite a few...
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