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...
This is what I had written to match Adrian's tune: I came across this beautiful girl (I) tried to start some small talk her good looks put my mind in a whirl (I) tried to not make her balk somehow my guileless words got her confused she frowned and looked...
Namely mine aren't. I'm dealing lyrics like a prostitute deals her favors: everybody can use them. The difference is that I don't get paid. I originally wrote "I believe (in our love)" to match a tune by Markus: original lyrics That was in 2009. In 2011...
Writing the first verses went quite smoothly. I knew what I wanted to say and simply had to squeeze the lines in my head into a meter that would make them lyrics. When thinking about "jealousy" as a viable rhyme for "... me" I suddenly knew about who...
Over the last couple of days I have prepared the accompaniment for yet another rock tune in the style of "spill blood", "hot stuff", or "come real". I just didn't have a melody (nothing much of a melody in this kind of songs anyway) or fitting words....
Nothing much to report, actually. Over the last couple of weeks - including a two weeks vacation on my part - Craig and I corresponded about an older text that I'd originally written for Markus. This is its current state: VERSE it's not too late a wrong...
Now, that Fredy has published his version of "Angel", which makes it the third tune for the same lyrics*, I somehow got inspired to write something else about angels. The line "where angels go to weep" sprang to my mind (and yes, it's a very very sad...
More often than not my lyrical ideas begin with a chorus (tune and words). Later I try to figure out stories or scenes that might lead up to that particular chorus. The first and third lines were buzzing in my mind when I got up this morning. While I...
I kept wondering, will people approve of the absurd last lines in each verse of "against the wall". While the first three lines of each verse make sense - well, more or less (the reference to meat eating vegans doesn't make THAT much sense) - the last...
I still don't have a title, hence I keep on using "repulsion" as a fill-in. I would like to draw your attention to the meter of the verses: she crawls through a humid dungeon that no one but her can see in a dark alcove someone is hiding she notes that...
I arranged the names of flowers by blooming seasons, trying to align these seasons with different stages of love (first love, steady relationship, settled love). After sorting them out there were not many left: Primrose - young love, I can't live without...
Two more verses: when the honeysuckle's blooming [an extra syllable (note) here, fits nicely anyway - at least to my ears] shedding its pleasant fragrance as its lure I breathe in quite deeply think of our devotion and that you're my sweet lure oh yes,...
After completing the lyrics for "fallen victim" I found that the tune varies in the chorus as well as the verses making it more interesting. I had overlooked this when writing my lyrics because I used the first part of the chorus as a template for the...
The internet can be weird at times! Imagine having about 90 visitors per day who enter without knocking, possibly plunder your fridge, and leave without a word. You may never see them again, you may never ever hear anything from them or about them again....
The following entry had rested in my scrap book long enough: call a spade a spade don't call me your lover you have come too late you got to find another you had better open your eyes and call a spade a spade It was time I did something about it. Here...
Some verses without rhyme, there are enough rhymes in the chorus ;-) Well, actually there is one rhyme over every two verses or parts: X X X A X X X A an ordinary day an ordinary man an ordinary life working hard to make a living an ordinary car the daily...
Craig rewrote two verses yet again using scraps from my former versions: this girl I know that she likes to ride (to sex her up would obviously be too much 'pop') that bloke she's with he'd better run and hide she left me flat I got no sympathy I'm outta...
Craig had forgotten to mention that my verses did not quite match the tune he had in mind. So using the completed verses as templates for the new ones was to no avail. He rewrote two verses himself to detail how the verses might fit: another Friday weekend...
On the Songwriter101 board a musician has begun some kind on competition: lyricists are asked to write lyrics matching his tune. He then will just pick the best. Although I don't care much for a) this kind of competion, and b) working for anonymous blockheads,...
If you miss "fallen victim - I" - it was called "choosing". The chorus seems okay for Peter, so I've written the first two verses. Due to my 'heavy rhyming' I had to draw on rhyming dictionaries a lot - both online and offline. we met at a dance just...
in our midst: guided by delusion they trample down the land to our life in profusion they will put an end they're following a leader with a crippled mind they silence any pleader leaving ruin behind the monsters that we've nourished in our midst have...
There are two new MotorPlanet songs that definitely have no recognizable text yet. One is a Boogie - gosh, how I love it. It's one of these pieces where you have to jump up. Three verses. The other is some kind of classic(?) Rock. Lyrically, I can make...
To set the bridge apart from the verses I altered its rhyming scheme by shifting two lines: once he left his home to make his luck once he was a young man full of hope pursuing his dream of making a quick buck now he has sold his future for some dope...
A text - possibly a poem - becomes song lyrics when it is sung. Until then it's just some text even if it's meant as song lyrics in the eyes of its author. Only when there is a tune, and a singer struggles with the words, the text can proove its suitability...
"leaving traces" will be included in my "carpe diem collection". The bridge caters to that: we're here on earth for a short visit we're doing well to make the most of it bringing forth human achievements so future generations benefit That's my interpretation...
I think I'll add just the same two lines to each verse: it just happens, just like that, someone will be blamed you can reason, you can argue, the result's the same Then I've put down a first draft for the bridge: just one shot just one second just some...
