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...
After "Sabrina" this time "Assembled Masturbators" was censored and deleted from a Just Plain Folks forum being alleged of containing child pornography. The verse in question reads: in a hidden corner that is hard to see young boys sometimes will gather...
Post lesenVerse 1: how much I long for some sleep and some rest while I'm awaiting the night's blackness lurking behind the mist The line "the night's blackness" has got a bit awkward - the stress should have lain on the last syllable - but will have to do, at...
Post lesenI wonder how come that I haven't written this years ago. The title has been in my mind since ages. I wrote it over lunch, checking my Penguin Rhyming dictionary only once (deciding against "dust" - there would have been no useful phrases as it normally...
Post lesenGaby died of lung cancer at the age of 22. Before she went to hospital for the last time she visited her friends for a farewell. In a letter that she wrote during her last days she confided to my later wife that what was tearing at her most was having...
Post lesen"... may make it to what?", you might ask. To full blown lyrics is what I meant. I've not had a hit so far, there is not even a properly produced CD or so (the Selfastrays are about to change this, at least). I'm happy if my lyrics reach some kind of...
Post lesenOnce you have discovered a formal approach to writing particular lyrics they sort of write themselves. Therefore, there remains nothing much to say about the writing process of "and to pass my time": it's basically just placing antonyms side by side....
Post lesenI was contacted by producers who specialize in dance and party music. Although I've always found it exceptionally difficult to write easygoing stuff I've put down four party lyrics since yesterday (which actually means within two or three hours). The...
Post lesenThis morning the land was - yet again - covered in snow. All white! Beautiful! It's still winter, you see. We'd nearly forgotten, it had felt like spring already. all white snow covers traces snow covers dirt beautiful white places everything unhurt the...
Post lesenI'm a rhyme addict! Therefore, it happens quite often that my lyrics go in a completely different direction from what I originally intended. It happened with "Hollywood happy end", now it happened again with today's lunch time lyrics, "let's procratinate"....
Post lesenJust one day after publishing my lyrics collection I've put together yet another song text, it's called "Hollywood happy end". I had kept that particular title in mind since quite some time. Originally, I intended to write a cynical anti war song. The...
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