no respect - I

"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 each step.

First step:

* listening to the recording.

MotorPlanet record their new songs in their rehearsal room using nonsense words and lines as placeholder for the lyrics.

Second step:

* identifying the songs's structure and taking notes on the time positions of the different parts for later reference.

The structure of the new song is: verse - chorus - [a shouted line] - verse - chorus - bridge - guitar solo - chorus - chorus

Third step:

* putting down dummy text to have a template for the meter

I normally focus on the chorus first. That means, I decide what the song is to be about and put down its focal message. My dummy text for the chorus reads:

hey, you

get out of my mind [through here these are the words Holger actually sings; they remind me of the Rolling Stones' "get off of my cloud"]

just you step out of line

hey, you

get out of my mind

out of my mind

These words describe the pattern I will next try to fill with other words. Often, I actually  use part of the dummy text. Then I can be sure that Holger, the singer, will feel comfortable with the lyrics - being partly his own spontaneous creations.

Here, my first idea was, to begin with

hey, you

show no respect

...

You will notice that one syllable would be missing compared with "get out of my mind". But the two short notes for "out of" could simply be changed into one long note. Matching the stress at the end of the line is more important. An alternative line like "you don't respect me", although having the same syllable count as the dummy text, would not fit in the tune because it would end on an unstressed syllable or note.