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 put down the story outline: 1) an African family decides to send their young, healthy, strong son abroad to make his fortune and maybe will be able to support them in the long run. They pool their funds together to pay the smugglers. 2) together with...
When writing lyrics that are supposed to match a tune it may prove difficult to create real meaningful sentences. There IS a risk that you have to insert syllables like 'Oh', 'Yeah' etcetera to make the text fit. Kai from Norway found the lyrics that...
I was busy today! you beat up your wife when you felt like it you bullied, threatened, abused her at last she broke out after one of your fits to escape from opression and torture you pestered your brother-in-law to find out where your wife might have...
I've put down the following lyrics pretty quickly. But when reading them again I found that the bridge did either not fit at all or would rather distract listeners from more general message that I had in mind. Next I replaced the line "my anger when you...
I think I'll either have to put the 'thats' back in, together with an extra note in the tune which only exists in my mind, anyway, or I'll rephrase the two lines in question (the lines one and three of the first verse). There are also two minor fixes....
Lyrics that need to be explained or interpreted so they can be understood are crap, aren't they? Maybe I should exclude Bob Dylan's early lyrics here ;-) Anyway, people seem to be confused by the bridge - "I've never been an angel..." - that obviously...
The chorus for my 'migration song': venture to the promised land to share its overflowing wealth work and prospects with no end as long as you are in good health venture to the promised land At the end of the song the chorus is modified to match with...
I think it's the fourth novel by Paul Auster that I'm reading at the moment. Very inspiring! Although his works tend to be rather dark, moody, or depressing, whereas I prefer reading fun stuff, I adore Auster for his imagery and power of expression. He...
... the lyrics, not the song. The nasty MIDI parts are still pending. And of course I'll have to sing it - I hope I'll remember the tune that I had in mind while putting down the words. This is the bridge: with you I feel safe threats and dangers far...
A complete verse that I wrote but discarded: you can't control the cards you're dealt love's a game with no safety belt you feel now what I have felt before I love you all the more I love the line "you feel now what I have felt before" although it doesn't...
... put down during my lunch break: Death and the Devil are dancing on my grave they both may want to claim me, but they have come too late I've long since decided to live the life of worms to op'rate in the underground while spreading fertile sperms...
... is the title I've had in my mind since a number of days, it popped up together with a tune. The chorus is supposed to end "and (or maybe 'but') I don't know who I am". Today I've begun writing verses. The first goes: in my happy colored garden plot...
I browsed through my lyrics that haven't been set to music yet to see if I could find one that might be adapted to the accompaniment I completed recently. And I was lucky. "drunken night" fitted perfectly in parts, I just had to shorten a few lines (every...
When I'm not sure about an expression I'd like to use in my lyrics I use to 'google' it. Many hits mean that it's a common phrase, few hits or none at all can mean that that particular expression is either wrong or very uncommon. But you have to be on...
Yet again I'm trying to create a song in the wrong order. Well, beginning with a riff may not be that uncommon (AC/DC seem to do that all the time), but producing the guitar tracks first sure is. The guitar parts are the only parts that I actually play...
... could become the next title - or maybe not, since there already exists at least one identical title. Maybe I'll use it only as a template for writing the chorus of the next of Alex' songs I'm working on: we have fun dancing in the rain we get wet...
I wrote off two verses during my lunch break using Google to check several expressions (just searched the phrases using quotes to see if they are used in the manner I put them down). Also did a little tweaking to align their meter. Unfortunately, they...
Don't look for "pay them back I", it's Got no ideas? Just read some book, actually. A friend from a songwriting board suggested to replace the line "dumped over your village" with "hanging over your village", so verse one now reads: yellow rain and a...
Although my musical skills are very limited indeed I just love playing the guitar. I can amuse myself over hours playing the same simple riffs and solo phrases all the time. Doing so, a few riffs have emerged over the last few weeks. I've pasted them...
As you will see, I actually did use ideas from my 'Bollywood vocabulary'. As I do rather regularly, I used rhyming dictionaries a lot. Lines like "whirling and leaping and reeling" are simple to find rhymes for - you just shift the words 'whirling', 'leaping',...
"tiger" seems to be the only word from my little collection that I seem to be able to use. I've begun working on the chorus. The tune is very fast, I'm having difficulty even just distinguishing its short notes, and I'm wondering if and how Jenny will...
Three verses: she's been a dutiful daughter for long enough she was eager and well-behaved she was studious at school and never gruff she was kind, if a bit too grave I used RhymeZone.com here (gruff, grave) there's this boy, her senior by a couple years...
All critics seemed to interpret my text in a similar way and saw no need to change anything, like "I like this, Bernd! I respond to songs that take on large themes, and it doesn’t get much larger than 'It’s All There'. For what it’s worth, my gut feeling...
I took neither a writing pad nor a pen with me on my vacation, and I never take a computer. Therefore, I couldn't put down any lyrical ideas, so all I brought back with me is an idea for a chorus: hold on to your prayers to your romantic dreams hold on...
Two more verses: in my uneventful working days I use to dream away the hours sometimes life is like some boring play or a joke that has turned sour commercials meant to wash my brain wrapped into nonsense tales they only care to entertain so they can...
