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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...

Spanish girl

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...

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lazing

I'm lazy, hence I just cross-link to a post on Songwriter101

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matching words to the tune in my mind

I 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...

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nothing but a face in the crowd

I'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...

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against the wall - feedback

I 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...

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that girl got balls - rewritten

Over 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....

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just a line

As 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...

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blood rain

The 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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