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...
This is what I had written to match Adrian's tune: I came across this beautiful girl (I) tried to start some small talk her good looks put my mind in a whirl (I) tried to not make her balk somehow my guileless words got her confused she frowned and looked...
Post lesenI wasn't quite happy with the bridge of "I've waited for you to happen". Although it seemed to match the tune in my mind when I wrote it I had the feeling that the meter was off. Today I envisioned or 'invented' a different fitting tune - quite obviously...
Post lesenI'm reading Nicholas Sparks' "The lucky one" at the moment. It's about a guy who has only got a photo of the girl he now intends to search out. Somewhere I came across the line "nothing but a face in the crowd" that somehow stroke the romantic chord in...
Post lesenI kept wondering, will people approve of the absurd last lines in each verse of "against the wall". While the first three lines of each verse make sense - well, more or less (the reference to meat eating vegans doesn't make THAT much sense) - the last...
Post lesenOver the last couple of days I have prepared the accompaniment for yet another rock tune in the style of "spill blood", "hot stuff", or "come real". I just didn't have a melody (nothing much of a melody in this kind of songs anyway) or fitting words....
Post lesenAs for "blood rain" there were only these two words, this time it's a whole line that maybe sometime will be expanded into a full-blown song. The line goes: "you've got too much of what I miss most". For the time being I put it in the scrap book...
Post lesenThe idea rested in my 'scrap book' long enough, just these two words: "blood rain". I wanted to write a song about medieval superstition hinting on the - or one possible - 'scientific' explanation at the same time. I had first come across the idea when...
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