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...
My first sketches - or rather full blown verses - for 'Flamenco-type' song lyrics: HE I admire the ground you're walking on when you flash a smile you turn me on I'm melting away to find you've gone SHE are you a real man do you have the grit do you know...
Post lesenIf I had got him right, Marian thought about a song in the manner of "paradise by the dashboard light" when he suggested writing a duet. That's a song by Jim Steinmann - to honor the WRITER where most people think only of the artist when commenting on...
Post lesenNever trust 'em girls - or Craig Pavone ;-) "Emily" fits his tune better, so Craig's version of "Rachel" will be named "Emily". My own "Rachel" will remain true to me of course, since I've already done her ;-)
Post lesenWhile working on the chorus I gathered rhymes for "feel" using my good old Penguin Rhyming Dictionary: deal, seal, kneel (I liked that one yet didn't use it), steal, appeal, conceal, reveal (that's the one I chose) This is the new chorus: so don't give...
Post lesenIn my mind there's a rock tune whose meter is not too strict (similar to "dripping pan" and most of my other rock tunes). Instead of the phrase "the girls pass him by" I first had "the girls ignore him" which sounded rather clumsy. I checked an online...
Post lesenThe question mark indicates that I'm not yet quite happy with what I had put down as a chorus the other day: so don't give me no crap size matters and that is that size matters let it show so you can see it make it grow so you can feel it size matters...
Post lesenI think I'll make "size matters" one of my famous - or is it infamous? - 'episodical' lyrics. That would mean that the verses tell separate stories that only have one thing in common, which is dealing with size. One verse could be about a dwarf and his...
Post lesenI've written the verses. BUT: yet again I walked into the trap of using the same meter for all parts of the song. Preferably, the meters should differ between verse and chorus (and pre-chorus). Yet once I am in writing mode everthing I'm writing tends...
Post lesenI think I'll make the intertwined part were 'she' and 'he' are singing alternately the prechorus. It now reads: He: whatever happens She: I could not stand it He: I must not lose her She: if it ended He: whatever happens She: with full zest He: I will...
Post lesenThe title "size matters" has resided in my mind since quite some time. All I know by now is what it will NOT deal with ;-)
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