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Lyrics in Progress

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...

don't turn your back on me

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...

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thoughts come like bubbles

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,...

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si e marr po me dukesh...

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...

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got it all wrong, doing it right

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...

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back in the business

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...

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no miracle after all

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...

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miracles happen: a new MotorPlanet song is in the making

... 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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getting original again

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...

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lyrics ain't cast in stone

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...

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outside the realms of sanity

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...

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