I describe my ongoing lyrics writing projects. Where I get my ideas, how I match my words with other people's music, which little helpers I use...
Today I tossed some lines together adding to the ones I had put down a while ago, then I just brought them in a viable order, that was it. Verses, chorus, and bridge have got all very samey as for their meter and rhyming pattern, but then, the song will...
Post lesenNo chorus! What I had suggested as a chorus I will instead use as intro and outro as well. I won't go into details as to how many lines I discarded, shifted, rewrote etc. I had known from the beginning that casting the oldest epos of the word into a song...
Post lesenI had put down the follwing fragment a while ago: bitter complaints 'bout the tyrannical king who claimed for himself the right of the first night and tried the young men's strength in the ring reached the Gods Today I added "who considered the plight",...
Post lesenExcept that my lyrics had to match his music there were not too many requirements for this song. Well, there was Markus' working title "look for the right", that was about it. The song - the recording that I've got with its dummy text - sounds quite optimistic...
Post lesenActually, there are two versions of Phoenix now. The version I'm presenting here is my private one that does NOT match the tune I was supposed to write the lyrics for. And, yes, it is "Phoenix" again although the second verse has nothing much to do with...
Post lesenThis 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...
Post lesenThere seems to be nothing more to the myth of Phoenix than that it rises from the ashes to live again, so I made it Simorgh again, the Persian equivalent to Phoenix. Simorgh provides more content to write about. How I went about the song so far is difficult...
Post lesenI've recorded "giants fall" and posted it as well on UBW (streaming audio) as on SoundClick (Frontpage). It has made it up to position 2 on the UBW "classic rock" charts and even pulled up "terminal disease" again with it as well (the clicks on "giants...
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