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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...

Five new motor planets

Five new motor planets

Five new MotorPlanet songs are in the pipeline. I've already heard them on a private party although they still lacked a proper text - that is supposed to be written by me. You can watch me working on them right here

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Just FYI: I've recorded 'complicated'

Ray had already written and recorded a folk tune, now I've recorded a quite different tune myself. You'll find it if you look for it ;-)

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a grammatical correction

An advantage of posting on English or American boards is that there is a good chance of people correcting your errors. "Across" cannot stand alone, so I have changed the line "she sat on the bench across" to "she sat across me on the tube". Fortunately,...

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a bridge for "fuck being cool"

I re-wrote the 3rd verse to make it a bridge: have you heard about the man who had a heart attack spent all his life pursuin' his career as of today he is thrown back to try again - or just persevere

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too many verses but no bridge (fuck being cool II)

I'm not good with bridges. Once I have found a meter for one verse I just put down verse after verse - all in the same meter. Two verses I wrote match quite good since they're about uncool people (you could say "fat farting Fanny" meets Billy Elliot)....

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fuck being cool

I've just got a chorus at the moment: fuck being cool don't piss me off I'm not a fool - so fuck being cool

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"no more" finished

I replaced one word and shifted a few lines to bring them in an order that make sense for me - if for no-one else ;-) You can find the 'official' version - like all the other 'official' versions of all my lyrics on my lyrics pages. As for now the "no...

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a simple bridge for "complicated"

girl, you see me in despair you speak in tongues, you are so learned girl, I think it is not fair I'm helpless, yet you're unconcerned Well, it's not the most sophisticated one as bridges come as it does not add a new aspect or provides some interesting...

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complicated

A quick one. I found "clime" (for region) in my Penguin Rhyming Dictionary and had to look it up. And I scrapped the line "'bout how much it would pay to wait" because I got doubts if it would be interpreted like I meant it to (act as waiter/waitress)....

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