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...
I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to write these lyrics after Stasy from Hot Mama already had a try at it. Maybe that after accepting two of my lyrics Hot Mama might make it three ;-) I'm not at all interested in car racing, hence I have no inkling of...
Post lesenI don't know where Google got its estimated 10,8 million hits for the phrase "make no prisoners" - which would be the same expression as in German - versus 1,08 million hits for "take no prisoners" (today the hit counts are VERY different, yet "make"...
Post lesenThe title I'm writing for Ethan will be "silver stream". Other than it suggests it will become a rather depressing text: VERSE a chain of dreary and dire days pass in a daze how much more will follow that you have to face each single day as gloomy as...
Post lesenI am done with the lyrics index and only intended to add a few subject indexes over the weekend to make it easier for composers to identify viable lyrics for their project. Yet meanwhile four more lyrics are written or in the pipe-line: After "dirty Dick"...
Post lesenLife goes on, so does creativity. I'm nearly done with putting together my most comprehensive lyrics collection to date while the first new "lunch-time lyric" came to my mind. It was a quick one, so there's nothing much to tell about the writing process....
Post lesenWhile I am - still - working on my all-engrossing lyrics collection I am kind of raising an inventory as a sideline. I discovered one dublicate in my Excel-Sheet, another text was not a song text at all but containes four short 'narratives' I once wrote...
Post lesenI've taken the first BIG hurdle: I've examined and corrected all my lyrics so far. There are 18 rewrites, and 132 more lyrics have been altered - from simple spelling corrections through shifted, added, or replaced words and lines. That means nearly half...
Post lesenI 'talked' about the importance of the meter in lyrics every once in a while. Actually, the most important aspect to achieve consistence in your lyrics is having consistent endings in corresponding lines. Lines can end on a stressed syllable or unstressed....
Post lesenAnother verse: when we visit friends of ours she makes jokes at my expense she ignores when I get tense says I must not take offense The first line first went "when we are visiting our friends", but the rhyme was not intended since all other verses have...
Post lesenThe first two verses that I wrote read when she is angry she strikes out at who gets close she doesn't care 'bout guilt or cause she hits hard, if just verbose when I try her patience I'll earn her contempt and spite but I will be compensated when we...
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