19. Juli 2012
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12:36
Two verses for Flamur's (the Albanian's) song (see: si e marr po me dukesh... ):
try to look me in the eye - eye to eye
while you give me a reason why - reason why
you have turned away from me, hurting me
you have turned away
don't let me fade like memories - of your past
hold on to our phantasy - make it last
do not turn away from me, hear my plea
do not turn away
That should be it. He also wants a bridge. But there is no bridge in the music?!
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18. Juli 2012
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10:53
sometimes like the sporadic bubble that rises from a moor lake, sometimes like sparkling water...
Basically, there was just one single line that kept popping up in my mind:
seize your life
seize your life
seize your life
today
(I love that "today"!)
Meanwhile, I've added a first verse:
every single day is just the same
a treadmill that is driving you insane
nothing to look forward to
no-one there to wait for you
no-one but yourself who was to blame
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18. Juli 2012
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10:10
Don't ask me what that means. I have no idea. I have a few notes in German and English, though, that kind of give me the general idea. The song called "Kush" (who) is Albanian. I am supposed to create matching English lyrics for it.
This is the original chorus (I added line breaks to make it easier for me to identify the meter):
si e marr po me dukesh,
per gjdo nate me zhdukesh
mos me bej magji
nuk jam une si aj
nuk jam
sie e marr pom dukesh
per gjdo nate me zhdukesh
mos me mbaj meri
sikur une ste don njeri
jojo
nuk te do njeri
And this is MY version of the chorus (I had to add or leave out a note here and there, yet the meter works nicely):
don't throw away our loving
like it had been nothing
you turn your back on me
you don't want to see
inside
was our love mere fiction,
love without conviction?
don't turn your back on me
let me make you see
inside
try to see inside
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14. Juli 2012
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17:24
I had got it wrong. Holger's - MotorPlanet's - Rock song goes "verse verse chorus chorus bridge [solo] chorus chorus". I simply hadn't remembered correctly. The chorus is - or the choruses are - rather short, the bridge - if you could call it that - is just three short lines repeated. Will say: not much text to write, so I did the rock song first, after all. I've called it "do it right". I'm not sure if you'd call it 'explicit', but it's rock - know what I mean? If you're interested in the lyrics you'll find them...
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12. Juli 2012
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19:50
There are two new MotorPlanet songs that definitely have no recognizable text yet. One is a Boogie - gosh, how I love it. It's one of these pieces where you have to jump up. Three verses. The other is some kind of classic(?) Rock. Lyrically, I can make out a form that could be outlined as "A A [solo] B B". A bit weird, I'd say it's "Verse - Verse - Solo - Chorus - Chorus", but typical for MotorPlanet, I guess. This rock piece may be disputable. I'll do the Boogie first.
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12. Juli 2012
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08:46
The MotorPlanet song that I mentioned yesterday already has got lyrics. By yours truly! I simply had forgotten that it existed, and it doesn't occur in any of my collections either. Small wonder its 'dummy' text sounded familiar...
But Holger announced other new songs, so there may be several miracles instead of just one.
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11. Juli 2012
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08:25
... Actually there have been several new MotorPlanet songs over the past three years - but not with my lyrics. Now, after a wait of nearly three years, I am supposed to write the lyrics for "a new day breaks".
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8. Juli 2012
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12:01
After a phase of co-writing ("Spanish girl" and "anywhere you want") it's about time to write some more original stuff again. Here is my suggestion for a contemporary song with a fifties Rock'n Roll feeling to it. It's called "time warp whirl". Should you be reminded of the Rocky Horror Picture Show by this title, so am I ;-)
I don't mind if I live too late
I put my mind in a fifties state
I keep hearing the jukebox tunes
turn 'em loud till they blow the fuse
I beam my feet into blue suede shoes
I tune my ears for the brushed up blues
I kick my feet, and I lift my girl
we jump, we flip in a frenzied twirl
we rock
we roll
me and my girl
we rock
we roll
in a time warp whirl
when I hear the rhythm, when I feel the beat
I can't help jumpin' (up) to my feet
it's in the body, it's in the blood
coming over me like a flash flood
I beam my feet into blue suede shoes
I tune my ears for the brushed up blues
I kick my feet, and I lift my girl
we jump, we flip in a frenzied twirl
we rock
we roll
me and my girl
we rock
we roll
in a time warp whirl
I beam my feet into blue suede shoes
I tune my ears for the brushed up blues
I kick my feet, and I lift my girl
we jump, we flip in a frenzied twirl
we rock
we roll
me and my girl
we rock
we roll
in a time warp whirl
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5. Juli 2012
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10:08
Namely mine aren't. I'm dealing lyrics like a prostitute deals her favors: everybody can use them. The difference is that I don't get paid.
I originally wrote "I believe (in our love)" to match a tune by Markus:
original lyrics
That was in 2009. In 2011 Craig picked these lyrics to set them to music. Over a few weeks we replaced phrases that were too British or archaic, regrouped lines of text, and 'tweaked' the lyrics to his liking. Amazingly, Craig writes 'lyrics first' but always insists in rewriting the lyrics first to match his ideas before he actually sets about creating music. I posted the resulting text on my lyrics pages, too:
rewritten lyrics
When Craig actually recorded the song he adapted the lyrics yet again:
the song
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1. Juli 2012
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13:31
Writing the first verses went quite smoothly. I knew what I wanted to say and simply had to squeeze the lines in my head into a meter that would make them lyrics. When thinking about "jealousy" as a viable rhyme for "... me" I suddenly knew about who I would write (I won't tell you, but it's a real person). Then the rest kind of wrote itself. I had to strain the grammar a bit, but hey, it's lyrics, it has to rhyme!
CHORUS
you live outside the realms of sanity
beyond the scope of our reality
if you need help no longer count on me
'cause you live outside the realms of sanity
VERSES
I still see your fiery eyes
while pointing that knife at me
still feel the stab into my side
that was not just jealousy
you hurled plates, you hurled abuse
then you smashed the window panes
your words and deeds were so abstruse
then I knew you'd gone insane
you live outside the realms of sanity
beyond the scope of our reality
if you need help no longer count on me
'cause you live outside the realms of sanity
you were suspicious every day
I left the house to go to work
when someone called to my dismay
each time you would go berserk
you said they were after you
and that I was on their side
you said you knew what to do
for once and all you'd put things right
you live outside the realms of sanity
beyond the scope of our reality
if you need help no longer count on me
'cause you live outside the realms of sanity
BRIDGE
Oh Baby I once loved you
but I can't bear this any longer
I'm not sure I could have helped you
if I had faith and I was stronger
you live outside the realms of sanity
beyond the scope of our reality
if you need help no longer count on me
'cause you live outside the realms of sanity
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