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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...

Furies

While I was working on my backing tracks - basically just assembling the different guitar parts - I wrote lyrics as well during a break. Quick ones, that I called "Fury on the warpath". By the way, I have the impression that my spontaneous lyrics are...

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Lyricist at a loss for words?

No, not really... Three backing tracks are in the making. 2014-05 (composition #5 this year) I completed yesterday, including a solo. It's the first time I play slide guitar - I had bought a slide (also called bottleneck) the other day - and open G tuning...

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a changed bridge, edited verses, and a new name: misfit

"Misfit" - not "no reason". "Misfit" lifts the mist of obscurity a little but the text remains vague enough (I love vague): WHAT exactly is wrong with 'you' remains unclear. you tried to talk you tried to explain but all your efforts were always in vain...

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do you have to understand what you're saying

... or writing, come to think of it? Do you have to serve the meaning of your lyrics on a plate? Don't think so. Most certainly not, if you're not even sure yourself ;-) I wrote two verses and a bridge around an entry in my scrap book today. It's not...

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kill for rhyme

I completed a set of nonsense(?) rhymes today - after letting them rest for about three months. indulging in my rhyme addiction was what I posted at that time. After regrouping the distiches, including a few I had added a while ago and discarding others...

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Hot Mama - watch out

"Watch out" is the - maybe provisional - title that I have given my lyrics. I scrapped the "mad storm", replacing it with "watch out", an expression I could also use in other places where only two syllables were required. After Stasy in principal signalled...

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Hot Mama - a verse

la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la ohohohohohoho la la ohohohohohoho Not much of a 'template', but it displays the numbers of syllables. First I had: broken hopes shattered dreams we feel frustrated our land our lives are...

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Hot Mama - the lift

Two suggs - but I'm not quite happy yet: LIFT: strong winds start blowing from the sea [adds next to nothing] black clouds are looming _ [a syllable is missing at the end; might work, though] OR: heavy waves that hit the shore [a syllable - upbeat - is...

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Hot Mama - a tempest?

In the part that I called 'chorus' before there is a distinct increase of tension over the first two lines. That's why I consider this short part a 'lift' now. It brought up the image of a gathering storm so I came up with these lines for the chorus:...

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Hot Mama again

I received this musical - what shall we call it - draft... The sound is sooo ugly. Scratching Midi-noise with Sonja singing and squeaking "la la la - lalalala - la"... Although Hot Mama have an idea as to what the song might be about they didn't tell...

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