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...
I've posted my final version of "air to breathe" on my lyrics pages (latest additions; note that the page will move eventually). I'm going to set it to music shortly.
Post lesenGary suggests to swap the first two verses. That's a grand idea, thus the new first verse can serve as intro: finding the flaw in the wise man's lectures to break the circle of reincarnation first seemed based on mere conjectures but shall lead to your...
Post lesena 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...
Post lesenA minor change in verse III: ... I think I'll hang up before I go nuts And a bridge: don't ask where I am headed to or where I am staying now I've got to find myself somehow don't know if/when I'll come back to you I'm still undecided if it should read...
Post lesenAfter writing the second verse I adapted the meter of the first. I've also written a third verse that I'm not quite happy with and therefore might re-write sometime later. Maybe, maybe not. There definitely should be a bridge that could either soften...
Post lesenOut of the blue there were these lines in my head. I put them down so as not to forget them: leave me some air to breathe leave me some room to roam 'cause if you don't change your ways I won't be coming home They will make the chorus of a new song. Somehow...
Post lesenThe key scene in Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" takes place by the river while Siddhartha is staying with the ferryman. Therefore, I have decided to base my chorus on this part. Here's my chorus: listen to the river hear its thousand voices when it roars,...
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