There was not much spare time for indulging in my hobby, but I added a rhyme (down - town) in the chorus by changing the word order a bit: by rule of thumb a severed thumb stickin' out simply means thumbs down in the end for you this tiny part of your...
Nothing much to tell. I felt like rocking, I thrashed my guitar, I needed some lyrics, I wrote "hot stuff" - it took about 15 minutes: when I spotted you I didn't need a second look you were so hot no need to do it by the book we danced close I didn't...
It seems that I've gone too far in my ambiguity. But since the text is rather generic replacing lines to change its mood is actually quite simple. I already had my doubts about the line "when you need warmth I'm deathly cold" (I still like it, but it...
Just a few more 'tweaks'. 2nd verse: I'll be with you when you despair when you need help I will be there (back to the first version here) one day I'm am there to show the way next day I'm leading you astray 3rd verse: I'm your story as yet untold I'll...
Yet again I've constructed a song all in the wrong order, playing all the guitar parts and only afterwards thinking about what could be done with them. Later I added bass and drum tracks, still without the faintest idea as for melody or lyrics. In my...
The idea had been in the back of my mind since quite a while. But actually there was only the title, "doomsday morning", at first. Later I found "doomsday morn" better fitted. Today I put down a few lines that might match the subject. With the help of...
sooner or later all things change sooner or later my time will come sooner or later we'll all succumb when our options are rearranged - sooner or later I checked out Rhymezone to find appropriate rhymes for "come" and "change", but in the end my good...
A little 'tweak' in verse no. 3: your looks aren't too great this is just your fate so much as for your skin yet not the girl within (instead of ... "yet not to the person within"). And I've added a bridge: there's a buzzing happy life beyond stardom...
I've put down verses or pieces of text in the manner I had outlined before: first part: you were marked out for the big venture to go and try your luck travelling over the sea young, healthy, strong you could be the one who once could support the whole...
This was the first version as I had put it down during a lunch break: when you’re beginning or you are through when you feel strong or you have caught the flu you should post it post it on the net when you are merry when you feel blue when you’re unfaithful...
... then Robert suggested to re-write the song so it would only have verses and neither chorus nor a bridge. He re-wrote what I had planned as bridge(s), and also added two verses: This was his first draft: Post It On The Internet If you’re just starting...
Did you notice the slight change in the title? First it was "post it on the net", then "post it on the internet", now it's "post it on the net" again. Call it 'artistic freedom' if you like. My own freedom this time. The lyrics are a collaboration of...
Here is just the chorus, the full text will be published on my lyrics pages and in my next compilation "Bernd's second hundred song lyrics" - "Butterfly" is my 200st song text: it hurts to look in your trustful eyes I don't want to tell another lie 'cause...
A songwriter colleague suggested a few changes for "butterfly", mainly leaving out unneccesary words like "that" or "somehow". One particular line was in the wrong tense: "not a single moment I would want to miss" had to be changed into ".. that I would...
I hadn't come up with any viable ideas for a couple of days. Since Steve suggested to try writing the song from the assassin's perspective I tried that approach - and new ideas started flowing again. This is what I put down on saturday: Verse I I'm the...
I think I'll call the song "Knight Templar". I put down some probable lines for Verse III (no rhymes yet) I've outlined all our actions designed awards and medals I sewed myself a uniform and bought an assault gun ... and took further notes: bombed a...
The term 'assault gun' would have been quite wrong, 'assault rifle' would have been the correct one. I used neither. This is the third - and probably last - verse: I've outlined all our actions to further our cause I don't fear their reactions I don't...
I think my ideas from yesterday actually could work out nicely, i.e. scrapping the 'patriot line' and repeating the first verse at the end of the song. "Knight Templar" then would look like this: I'm the Knight Templar fighting for the good cause I'll...
More feedback in the manner "country must be conversational", so here are my suggestions trying to reduce educated lingo: LIFT: you may think you can dictate to me you may think you can lay down the law you base your views on what's best for you but your...
The common expression would be "come true". I came up with "come real" because it rhymes with "steel", "feel", "deal", "seal", and "we'll". Maybe my own title "make me real" had influenced me as well. Remarkably, "to come real" would be the more precise...
This is a very old text of a love song I had written for my wife. Since the German band "Selfastrays" has set it to music (again) and will include it on their demo CD I think I may publish it here: when one night the skies cracked open and the clouds...
Somehow I'm unconcentrated at the moment. Somehow I don't feel like working on the stuff I had intended working on. So, what I'm doing is collecting yet more scraps for my 'scrap book' that might make it into full-blown song lyrics somtime - or not. autumn...
My creativity has recovered :-) I've completed one of my text fragments: Verse 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...
I checked the symptoms that crack addicts may show on Wikipedia: lack of sleep, restlessness, paranoia, losing touch with reality, delusional parasitosis (the belief that you are infested with parasites), hallucinations about insects, skin damage due...
I've completed three verses for "cracked". After shifting a few lines to and fro I think they're not bad for the time being. I've altered the rhyming scheme to AABB because the lines somehow seemed too long to work well with an ABAB rhyming scheme: the...
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