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...
Normally, I would have a tune in mind, find matching words - usually for what would later become the chorus, put down the words, and with a little luck even remember the tune when it comes to recording. This time I had a riff, completed the accompaniment...
Post lesenI had made a few more notes: beat the odds - possible rhyme: puzzled nods play by the rule Eventually I came up with this verse: you're never playing by the rule you love to make me look the fool you can be sweet, you can be cruel, and I just can't make...
Post lesenA complete verse that I wrote but discarded: you can't control the cards you're dealt love's a game with no safety belt you feel now what I have felt before I love you all the more I love the line "you feel now what I have felt before" although it doesn't...
Post lesenI had made notes during my business trip early this week trying to find matching words to my syllable counts for Alex' composition. Since I never take computers with me I had no chance to match my words with the actual music. A mp3 player would have been...
Post lesenI discarded: I'm no saint, but I'm a man ... There's no gaming reference in that one, so instead I wrote: I'm not sure which game you play but I love you anyway I'll buy you flowers now and then, though you don't honour what I do
Post lesenI put this down on the train during a business trip: life's a game with win and loss the world's a place where coins are tossed sometimes you're sweet, sometimes you're cross with me for reasons I don't see I'm no saint, but I'm a man I'm tryin' to do...
Post lesen"legalize me" took about ten minutes to write during a coffee break at the office. I had a short glimpse at Rhymezone that I use quite often, and that was that. It begins: I ain't doin' nobody no harm I give no reason for raising alarm I'm friendly, I'm...
Post lesenWeird structure... And the composer/singer seemed to have forgotten the tune of the verse when he came to the second verse so it wasn't quite clear what I was supposed to match my words with... Whatever, this is what I've got: VERSE hey Baby, I like to...
Post lesenJust 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...
Post lesenAlthough the first verse does not fit perfectly - namely the two last lines do not match the tune - I used it as a template for writing a second. I tried to match both verses with the tune independently listening to the recording while reading my lyrics....
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