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...
Not three but two musicians I'm writing for at the moment, Alexander and Stefan. Then there is the young lady, Jennifer, who is supposed to sing the stuff. Anyway, here is our third collaborative project: "let's party and get on bad".
First I gathered lines that might be fit for the chorus. I need eight lines, all with the same meter:
let us party on the beach
let us party in the streets
let us party in our homes (discarded because there are no viable rhymes)
let us party every night
let us dance and feel alright (discarded because it's too corny)
dance and set the nights alight (changed later to match the same pattern as all lines)
dancing to the throbbing beat (also changed, see below)
let us feel the body heat
dancing close and dancing wild (discarded because there are no viable rhymes)
be as carfree as a child (the only rhyme I found for "wild", but it's singular instead of plural, and no good, anyway)
dancing to the latest fad (would that work? I'm not sure. Discarded)
I used my good old Penguin Rhyming Dictionary and also RhymeZone.com. A few words I put down while I assembled the lines above: sight, bright, alright, light, excite, ignite; beat, heat; mad, bad, fad.
Since most lines that I had put down begin with "let us" I decided to let them all begin alike. So, here is the chorus that I've got:
let us party on the beach
let us party in the streets
let us party every night
let us set the nights alight
let us feel the throbbing beat
let us feel the body heat
let's be hot or raving mad
let's be free and get on bad
Originally, I had "let us party" in mind as song title, but I like "let's party and get on bad" better because it also includes the end of the chorus and actually drives the message home even better.