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...
A remark of a young man inspired me to this song or poem. He remarks on his MySpace page that towards tiny creatures he likes to play God. I wrote the text down this morning, it took about 20 minutes: God of the ants I'm the God of tiny creatures I decide...
Post lesenWhen Holger of the Motorplanet blues-rock band recently sent new compositions so I could create lyrics for them there were actually three of them. Two I have already finished. The third song is an up-tempo Rock song with three verses, and neither chorus...
Post lesenI will change the third verse altogether: we protested 'gainst a culture of conspicious consumption bein' able to live just on grass based on a large assumption we had our time of love and peace, but soon we had to function Besides coming quite close...
Post lesenI corrected the meter for one verse, and wrote a third one. So here's the new version for the second verse: we were proud to be surrounded by a mob of enemies, mistrusted all authorities, would destroy all hierarchies our overall ideal was a life in total...
Post lesenOnce the basic idea for a song is there, the next step, in regard to lyrics, is gathering phrases, rhymes, sentences, or just single key words. I intend to write about the 1970's ideals and misconceptions (?). And these were my first notes: propagated...
Post lesenFor quite a while a melody and the lines for a chorus have been in my mind. The lines were: we tried to kill the master and rescue all the slaves bein' led into disaster we're crying at their graves This would have to be about some mislead revolution,...
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