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...
The results of a creative lunchtime break: three choruses, or rather three slightly different versions of the chorus that sort of interpret the respective verses: they've left their traces o'r many places unfaced by diff'rent cultures or diff'rent races...
Simple, yet effective, I think: he's cracked this boy is cracked he won't get back on track this boy is cracked The song will need a bridge (maybe also pre-choruses). My ideas for the bridge in terms of content: he left home to make his luck he has lost...
I've only just left the house I've only just closed the door and right away I feel there's something missing I don't feel like goin' to work I don't feel like doin' my chores I would much rather we kept on kissing Oh, Baby, Baby, I'm in need Oh, Baby,...
I've recorded yet another - very, very simple - riff, and I've consulted my scrap book yet again for lines that could be fitted in. This is what I found in my scap book: what are colors when your eyes cannot see what are sounds when your ears cannot hear...
While compiling "Bernd's second hundred lyrics" - actually not just 100 but 104 additional lyrics - I keep discovering lyrics I wrote just for the fun of it but never again followed up in any way. Just a moment ago I stumbled over "I won't give in", for...
The verses: kids found you uncool you often looked the fool never caught the boys' eyes love seemed to pass you by but you're perfect as you are ... you had no romance you would never dance with no rhythm in your head but two left feet instead but you're...
I smoothed out the meter a bit and fixed expressions here and there. I also added a bridge that unfortunately has the same meter as the verses - that happens often to me, I'm normally not too good with bridges. But I changed its rhyming pattern a little...
Writing a song about a 'house of worms' has been on my mind since about three years. I also found a few entries in my 'scrap book' that I did not refer to, however, when writing the whole song down in a matter of minutes yesterday evening. The chorus...
A lunchtime flash of inspiration! I have the chorus for "in the wink of an eye": in the wink of an eye with no reason why a life has faded into a sigh in the wink of an eye My expression "to fade into a sigh" is probably unique - if I can trust Google....
Don't worry if you can't recall having read about "like 'em bad" - I didn't post it here. It was just one more of my quick shots with no 'educational' aspects to it. But now that Robert suggested two improvements I might just as well tell you about them....
After identifying the lyrics that would fit into a "carpe diem" collection I have actually begun to edit and comment on them. I think that eventually the collection will comprise between two and three dozen songs or song lyrics. All have been published...
I had brought a dummy text with me so I could work on the lyric during my vacation. But, as I have mentioned several times here before, matching text with tunes depends much more on matching its meter, i.e. its intonation or the stresses, than on matching...
- would that be exploting the grief of other people? I read a statement saying as much in response to a song about Fukushima. I've written (and even recorded, but not yet published) a song inspired by the Fukushima desaster myself, it's called "doomsday...
First notes: fifteen hundred pages in the manifest of the man with a belief who's got the force of thousands who have only interests a private declaration of independency a rage in need of relief (I scrapped "by a man with no brains") a wild and dangerous...
I had made a few more notes: beat the odds - possible rhyme: puzzled nods play by the rule Eventually I came up with this verse: you're never playing by the rule you love to make me look the fool you can be sweet, you can be cruel, and I just can't make...
... in the third chorus: he's leaving traces o'r many places the ancestry clearly showing in the faces he's leaving traces instead of: he will leave traces o'r many places the ancestry clearly showing in their faces he will leave traces It's not exactly...
The other day I watched a YouTube video: The truth about the economy While the statements may sound quite convincing, and are indeed identical to what German unionists would say - i.e. that strengthening the inner demand for consumer goods could recover...
After comparing the different versions and proposals my favorite version would look like this: Post It On The Internet if you’re just starting or already through if you feel good or you’ve got the flu just post it post it on the internet when you feel...
Let's have a look at the meter, it goes (X = stressed, - = unstressed) X - - X - - X - - X X - - X - - X - - X - X - (just post it) - X - X - X - X (just post it on the internet) The characteristic pattern is X - - X Two lines do not match this pattern,...
... a little while later Robert had a melody in his head that seemed to require a chorus, so he re-wrote the lot yet again, also editing a particular verse that would not match the rhyming scheme of the other verses. He also change the second last line...
Normally I write with a male voice in mind. This time I thought 'female' straight from the beginning ;-) I love you all CHORUS: (you can) blame me to cheat on you or call me a liar if you want maybe feel better if you do though you'd have gotten it all...
Although the first verse does not fit perfectly - namely the two last lines do not match the tune - I used it as a template for writing a second. I tried to match both verses with the tune independently listening to the recording while reading my lyrics....
Actually I doubt that there is such a thing as a correct order if it comes to creativity. Anyway, I had the lyrics, I decided to record a song, and I actually began with writing the tune. Although I use to have a tune in mind when I write lyrics I hardly...
After the rather dark and dooming "doomsday morn" a happier 'tune' this time (actually there is no tune yet, except in my mind while writing it) in my good old 'carpe diem' fashion. It's of the 'episodical' type. I only checked out the expression 'stubborn...
I looked up phrases that contain the word 'thumb' on Phrasen.com and put down three that might fit in my song: rule of thumb to stick out like a sore thumb to give sb the thumbs up/down ... and I wrote this: by rule of thumb a severed thumb stickin' out...
