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...
My syllable count was not quite correct. The fourth line of the verses may have nine or even ten syllables like the sixth. I simply overlooked that sounds like "ayay" - i.e. duplicated vowels - count twice. As for the content I let myself be inspired...
Post lesenThis is going to be another example of setting music to text - I know there is the expression "to set (text) to music", but what do you say when you work the other way 'round? Anyway, Markus had sent two songs using dummy text for the vocals, the first...
Post lesenWriting about "giants who fall" has been on my mind for quite a while. Former entries from my scrap book: and the pagans simply waited for the day that the giants should fall they used to stand so tall hiding behind their 6 feet wall but the people are...
Post lesenmake me real like I had lived within a mist my future never looked quite clear to me I never knew what I had missed just dragged along - year after year I tried to live a normal life my only purpose was to function no higher aims for which to strive until...
Post lesenWell, the structure of "I believe" doesn't allow for too much story telling so I decided on a kind of generic approach. I mentioned the Beatles' "Yesterday" the other day. There are similarities. In "Yesterday" what would be expected of the chorus - delivering...
Post lesenWell, I wrote about hooks and choruses etcetera because that would be the common approach to tackle things. Not so here! But that doesn't mean that much. Some of the best of all-time songs don't care about the standard structure at all. "Satisfaction"...
Post lesenNormally, you'd expect a song to have verses and a chorus that is repeated about three times, and maybe also a bridge. But modern rock songs often don't fit in this pattern, "I believe" certainly doesn't. I couldn't even decide which part might serve...
Post lesenMarkus has recorded a piece of music singing some kind of English nonsense text. Thus the song already sounds English, I'll just have to find some matching words. Only recently, I had quite some difficulties finding lyrics for songs that had been recorded...
Post lesenthe expression "single instance" should be okay. The rhyme "sex" - "flex" might be a bit strained. JD suggested "let me taste you there" instead of "let me taste your sex" (actually I didn't mean it that literally, but never mind), so the third verse...
Post lesenI've come up with a "nice" chorus and worked on the bridge. I also edited the second verse a bit. As for the bridge I'm not quite sure if you can say "single instance" instead of "singular instance". The latter would be correct but quite clumsy to sing....
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