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...
still missing: the bridge. The bridge occurs only once in a song giving it more variety. Lyrically it should add a new aspect or maybe even provide a surprising twist. I also try to give it a unique rhyming pattern as well. For "no respect" I decided...
Post lesennext step: * writing the verses It's basically the same procedure as with the chorus: define the meter, find matching lines, check them against the tune. Content-wise the verses should either tell a story or describe the situation or mood that leads up...
Post lesenhow far had we got? I believe step four comes next: * writing the chorus I shifted lines to and fro, listening to the tune again and again while thinking my lines sort of into the tune to see if and how they might fit in, until I contented myself with...
Post lesen"no respect" is my working title for yet another new MotorPlanet song, yet it has a good chance to persist. Since there are no other lyrical projects at the moment I think I shall try to make this another complete "lyrics in progress" story, describing...
Post lesenThe song has the structure: verse - lift - chorus - verse - lift - chorus - guitar solo - chorus - verse - lift - chorus - chorus. The lift varies a little, basically it has four lines with three syllables each. You can't squeeze too much meaning into...
Post lesenWill be the next MotorPlanet song I'm writing the lyrics for. Holger and I agreed on a 'cheer up'-song: a girl finds herself down and out (I'm going to avoid this very expression because it already has been used once too often) after an 'easy life'. The...
Post lesenIt's called: "I don't need her love" (MotorPlanet). I don't actually care much for the title, yet the songs has already been performed - without proper lyrics! - under this title, and the lines "I don't need her; I don't love her" stand out , so I had...
Post lesenNo, it's not Albanian at all, it's English. But my latest lyrics are written to match a tune that is sung in Albanian. I didn't understand a single word! Neither do I have the faintest idea what the song may be about: Boy and girl stuff, probably, but...
Post lesenFour new lyrics on my lyrics pages: * seize your life - the lyrics I mentioned yesterday * you'd better watch out - matching a MotorPlanet tune * no worth - after Holger (MotorPlanet) rejected "do it right" because it was too sexist (?! We're talking...
Post lesenI must make a confession! While writing the third verse for "seize your life" (see: thoughts come like bubbles) I looked up rhymes for "far" in my good old Penguin Rhyming Dictionary. And what did I find - with exception of "star(s)" that I'd already...
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