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...
The results of a creative lunchtime break: three choruses, or rather three slightly different versions of the chorus that sort of interpret the respective verses: they've left their traces o'r many places unfaced by diff'rent cultures or diff'rent races...
Post lesenA text - possibly a poem - becomes song lyrics when it is sung. Until then it's just some text even if it's meant as song lyrics in the eyes of its author. Only when there is a tune, and a singer struggles with the words, the text can proove its suitability...
Post lesena proud old man, a baby boy his long-awaited grandson descendant, heir to a long line (1) who will in the long run (2)(3) set up his sep'rate fam'ly pass on his genes and name maybe eventually he'll even come to fame Notes: 1. stress on the "a" - not...
Post lesenThe third verse shall deal with one's offspring. This verse will stand for the future after the verses that dealt with the past (Romans) and the present (traces on the internet). At the moment I am putting down lines, phrases, and words that might fit...
Post lesenOnce you've got your mind going .... Here's the second verse. The meter works just fine: a Facebook page, a mail account that have been left deserted unanswered posts on sev'ral boards that look like ill concerted a man who once was bustling thriving,...
Post lesenIt took less than half an hour to sketch - or maybe even complete - the first verse. Possibly just thinking about the Romans has triggered my creativity? This could be the first verse: we speak their law, we use their words although their buildings crumble...
Post lesenAfter outlining the basic structure and content of my song lyrics I gather material. The first verse is to deal with traces the Romans left in today's world. I therefore scanned the internet for ideas: temples, theaters, amphitheaters, aqueducts, roads,...
Post lesenMy ideas so far suggest a particular order for the verses: 1. traces the Romans left - past 2. traces on the internet (Facebook, blogs ...) - present 3. children (descendants) - future This would lead to this song structure: verse - chorus - verse - chorus...
Post lesenI wrote another verse: it's not the life I strived for dreamed of in my pursuit of happiness I have the foot-in-mouth disease stumbling over my own awkwardness ... and a bridge as well: if I tried to hang myself I am sure the rope would tear I have learned...
Post lesenI've written a new chorus: just bad luck or my stupidity is it fate or my destiny moving on to the next calamity just bad luck or my stupidity Now I still need a new third verse and maybe a bridge. I think I'll call the song, i.e. the lyrics, "bad lu...
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