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        <title><![CDATA[Lyrics in Progress]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Goodbye overblog!]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://lyrics-in-progress.over-blog.de/2014/09/goodbye-overblog.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:04:24 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I will stop using overblog yet will keep posting news directly on my own web site (until now I used overblog RSS feeds to add news to my site). If you want to check out what I am up to just visit me on http://bernd-harmsen.de See you there! Bernd ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[robbing myself]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:21:41 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm robbing - or plagiarizing - myself. The other day I had published "the answer", a song from 2002 that I up to then found quite too embarrassing to publish, yet now decided is not that bad at all. Well, it 'made it' only to the end of my list which... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:44:59 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A political song, for a change. I won't bore you with any details. I simply put down what goes on in my mind when I'm hearing the news about Palestine, the Ukraine, Syria, and so on. This is just the chorus that I'm a little proud of: too little truth... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[just so you know...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've posted seven new lyrics on my home page. Three are 'free-style' lyrics, texts with no music to them: floating leave me in the cold gonna have a ball Three I wrote to match other guy's music: somebody gonna have to make it through the winter much... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five (and a half?!) more]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... yet only two more lyrics 'officially' published so far. For a singer-songwriter(!) I wrote three lyrics, "much too long", "ride into the sun", and "will have to make it through the winter". A fourth text we wrote together "I'm so lonely" - he wrote... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[yet another backing track by your busy bee]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When I don't feel like writing lyrics I record my own music. I just completed yet another backing track by adding a MIDI bass and MIDI drums today, so all what is left missing is the vocals. And as usual I don't have any words for my own new song. Three... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[five steps down (see my last post)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I had two verses and a bridge. When I read the bridge I discovered that the meter was very much like that of the verses although there were more syllables. I simply had sort of cut the lines in halves so I hadn't noticed. Somewhere in between I had altered... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[a fragment that may become a chorus]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[three steps up five steps down look up the sky crawl 'cross the ground let your soul fly while you drown Not excactly cheering, I guess... But a start for new lyrics, anyway. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[human condition - the bridge]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... that I will place right after the first chorus and BEFORE the third verse for obvious(?) reasons: I'm hearing cheerful laughter and also angry shouts coming from the playground a lively mix of sounds I watch a couple holding hands I see a young girl... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[human condition - III]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I rewrote the first verse: she was 22 consumed by lung cancer she'd never smoked a cigarette she saw all her friends to say her Good-Byes she said we must not be upset Should run a little smoother. And I never cared for the former last line - "said there... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[human condition - II]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Another verse in the manner of the first two, yet two 'stories' squeezed into a single verse: a new motorbike that ran smooth and fast smashed its driver on a concrete wall some old nasty crook enjoys his old age made millions by means that appall ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[working on &quot;human condition&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I think I'd mentioned some time before that I would write a 'philosophical' text about the human condition. It looks like it will come out not too philosophical but rather typical - for me ;-) she was 22 consumed by lung cancer she'd never smoked a single... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[song#2 (or rather: lyric #368!) - chorus]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I wrote two choruses because I was not happy with my first version. My first version: the sun is out, the world is open to us [clumsy to sing, stress on the "to"] see new things, let us travel far and wide [-2 syllables/notes] why should we want to stay,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[gathering ideas, phrases, and lines for song #2]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Remember, it's supposed to be about running away and have a summerly feel. I've mainly collected synonyms for "running away", but I may actually leave it at "run away" after all because that phrase actually occurs in the Gibberish-singing that I received... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[song #2 from Tobias]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Maybe I was wrong about producers after all. After "take off" I've received another tune that requires matching lyrics. And more are in the pipeline. Song #2 is supposed to have a summerly atmosphere and deal with 'making off' (I'll probably have to find... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[looting my own lyrics]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While I'm supposed to write for yet another producer* I completed "no knight tonight", a little lyrics project of my own that had been resting uncompleted for months. But that's not what I wanted to write about at all... Well, aside from his tune Tobias... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[we've had our share]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... written to match yet another tune by Hot Mama. I have only the chorus at the moment. Before working on the verses and the outro I'll check with Hot Mama if the subject and tendency are okay with them. (and/but) now the world breaks down 'cause we've... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Furies]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://lyrics-in-progress.over-blog.de/article-furies-123476843.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While I was working on my backing tracks - basically just assembling the different guitar parts - I wrote lyrics as well during a break. Quick ones, that I called "Fury on the warpath". By the way, I have the impression that my spontaneous lyrics are... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lyricist at a loss for words?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[No, not really... Three backing tracks are in the making. 2014-05 (composition #5 this year) I completed yesterday, including a solo. It's the first time I play slide guitar - I had bought a slide (also called bottleneck) the other day - and open G tuning... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[a changed bridge, edited verses, and a new name: misfit]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["Misfit" - not "no reason". "Misfit" lifts the mist of obscurity a little but the text remains vague enough (I love vague): WHAT exactly is wrong with 'you' remains unclear. you tried to talk you tried to explain but all your efforts were always in vain... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[do you have to understand what you're saying]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... or writing, come to think of it? Do you have to serve the meaning of your lyrics on a plate? Don't think so. Most certainly not, if you're not even sure yourself ;-) I wrote two verses and a bridge around an entry in my scrap book today. It's not... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[kill for rhyme]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I completed a set of nonsense(?) rhymes today - after letting them rest for about three months. indulging in my rhyme addiction was what I posted at that time. After regrouping the distiches, including a few I had added a while ago and discarding others... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hot Mama - watch out]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["Watch out" is the - maybe provisional - title that I have given my lyrics. I scrapped the "mad storm", replacing it with "watch out", an expression I could also use in other places where only two syllables were required. After Stasy in principal signalled... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hot Mama - a verse]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la ohohohohohoho la la ohohohohohoho Not much of a 'template', but it displays the numbers of syllables. First I had: broken hopes shattered dreams we feel frustrated our land our lives are... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Texter Bernd]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hot Mama - the lift]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two suggs - but I'm not quite happy yet: LIFT: strong winds start blowing from the sea [adds next to nothing] black clouds are looming _ [a syllable is missing at the end; might work, though] OR: heavy waves that hit the shore [a syllable - upbeat - is... ]]></description>
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