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...
At the moment it is just an entry in my "scrap book". But it might become another song of my "carpe-diem section" eventually: tell me when I'm dead make sure I don't miss it out while I'm busy spending my time living, and kicking about tell me when I'm...
Post lesenPlaying "Spartacus" - it has become a little folk song, by the way, since IMO rock music would not fit - I found that it was way too short. I used to repeat the last verse, for which I had altered the chords a bit so as to make it a little more dramatic:...
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"Carpe diem" is my credo. Actually I have added the rest of the line, so it reads "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero". I'm still not sure if the added part strengthens or lessons Horaz' statement. I'll leave it in - although the common "carpe diem"...
Post lesenWhen I write lyrics for other's songs the first I do is counting syllables and writing a little chart of the stresses. Only then do I start collecting textual ideas. Obviously, it can be done the other way around as well. Recently I completed "lost."...
Post lesenI like Brigitte's smile - and I like Brigitte smile, or so. And I wrote a little poem, must've been in the late 90's: Her smile I glimpsed at her and caught a smile, and quickly stored it in a jar. When sometimes I feel blue awhile relief is not so very...
Post lesenIt's an old one which you might have come across on my lyrics pages. I've posted it because I just discovered an archived version of my very early web pages on the wayback-machine. There is a little poem I wrote 1999 which actually became the seed for...
Post lesenOriginally, I intended to restrict the irony to one or maybe two verses. Somehow, yet, it made it into the chorus as well. Truth be told, I didn't come up with a proper chorus, i.e. a serious text. So I have contented myself with an ironic chorus as well....
Post lesenDuring the last few days I have composed five verses. They wouldn't fit together, though, to make a rounded story. But when I came up with the 4th verse today, the other verses fell into a pattern. I haven't decided yet if I will need a chorus at all....
Post lesenThese are two verses I wrote down for "Spartacus". They don't make much sense by themselves yet. The idea is, that Spartacus reflects about the long term outcome of his rebellion after his death. so you think that you can humble the proud men they'd become...
Post lesenBefore I can begin collecting phrases, lines of text I could use, or even verses, I have to gather a little information on my subject. Often, I use Wikipedia for a start. Here is what I noted down: enslaved gladiator abuse or killing of slaves had no...
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