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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...

Death and the Devil - two corrections

I have already put down a bridge (THE bridge?) as well, but I've mislaid my note :-( There are two corrections: ... they have been so stupid believing my BALD lies - 'white lies' was too harmless, it didn't really go together with 'them' being stupid;...

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Death and the Devil

... put down during my lunch break: Death and the Devil are dancing on my grave they both may want to claim me, but they have come too late I've long since decided to live the life of worms to op'rate in the underground while spreading fertile sperms...

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love to be loved - dump it?

Lyrics that need to be explained or interpreted so they can be understood are crap, aren't they? Maybe I should exclude Bob Dylan's early lyrics here ;-) Anyway, people seem to be confused by the bridge - "I've never been an angel..." - that obviously...

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love to be loved - a few fixes and two options

I think I'll either have to put the 'thats' back in, together with an extra note in the tune which only exists in my mind, anyway, or I'll rephrase the two lines in question (the lines one and three of the first verse). There are also two minor fixes....

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"twelve" will become "glad that you're here"

"twelve" is the working title I gave a riff - and later the arrangement around that riff - that I developed playing the twelve-string. I completed the arrangement today adding a simple bass line. Then I figured out how many text parts I would need and...

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using Google and some help from 'natives'

When I'm not sure about an expression I'd like to use in my lyrics I use to 'google' it. Many hits mean that it's a common phrase, few hits or none at all can mean that that particular expression is either wrong or very uncommon. But you have to be on...

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it's all there

All critics seemed to interpret my text in a similar way and saw no need to change anything, like "I like this, Bernd! I respond to songs that take on large themes, and it doesn’t get much larger than 'It’s All There'. For what it’s worth, my gut feeling...

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indecisive

I've put down the following lyrics pretty quickly. But when reading them again I found that the bridge did either not fit at all or would rather distract listeners from more general message that I had in mind. Next I replaced the line "my anger when you...

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who I am - completed

I re-wrote the bridge: though I hoped that I could find my place and I hoped to find some meaning though I hoped some day I could embrace a proud future that was gleaming Next comes the lift, so the sentence is sort of continued there: when I'm tryin'...

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who I am - II

Two more verses: in my uneventful working days I use to dream away the hours sometimes life is like some boring play or a joke that has turned sour commercials meant to wash my brain wrapped into nonsense tales they only care to entertain so they can...

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