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 envision verse lines in the manner of "you weren't good at school / you always looked the fool..." glued together with the refrain, i.e. making it a refrain-type song. The refrain/chorus is all I've got at the moment: you're perfect the way you are...
I have already put down a bridge (THE bridge?) as well, but I've mislaid my note :-( There are two corrections: ... they have been so stupid believing my BALD lies - 'white lies' was too harmless, it didn't really go together with 'them' being stupid;...
I'm getting close to completing my second hundredth song text. I think I have 191 lyrics written by now, another one is in the pipeline, it's called "in case". So you may look forward to my second big lyrics compilation coming sometime this summer. I...
There are still two more recordings from Alex, both containing a Midi track as a placeholder for the vocal line. That's the part I have to match my words with. While commuting I read Paul Auster at the moment finding many ideas and phrases that could...
I've never seen a Bollywood movie. I've heard they're screamingly colorful, there always are dance scenes and songs, some wild and unbelievable stories - and of course there is a love story included, and a happy end, I guess. In short the multicolored,...
Alex was not happy with the line "let's get wet but let us never fret" in the chorus of "dancing in the rain". He suggested to make all four lines rhyme so the chorus will stand more out. So here it is: let's have fun dancing in the rain we get wet, but...
I’m reading “Shantaram” by G.D.Roberts at the moment and have come to the part that takes place in Afghanistan. The mad man who guides the group of gun runners across the border from Pakistan has lost his family during a Russian nerve gas attack. (The...
... the lyrics are, not the song. I actually had a tune in mind when I wrote the chorus, and I had a different tune in mind when I wrote the verses. I don't think they'd go together at all. Never mind! The mood is quite similar to "diggin' deep", and...
The chorus (it's always a good idea to begin with the chrous since its the most important part in a song): you are the light you shine so bright with all your warmth and might That sounds a bit like a religious song - nothing wrong with that, actually....
Normally, I would have a tune in mind, find matching words - usually for what would later become the chorus, put down the words, and with a little luck even remember the tune when it comes to recording. This time I had a riff, completed the accompaniment...
I was no longer asleep, neither quite awake when the tune came to my mind. It's supposed to become some kind of romantic breakfast song, Yes, breakfast: "Good morning love, I've cooked an egg for you ..." The only verse that I remembered properly after...
I had made notes during my business trip early this week trying to find matching words to my syllable counts for Alex' composition. Since I never take computers with me I had no chance to match my words with the actual music. A mp3 player would have been...
I took my nonsense text with me on my vacation, so I could try to find a matching text for Alex' music without having access to its tune. I wrote a sketch for the chorus first so as to define what the song might be about. It goes: show your love and go...
Not much of a chance for a perfect fit if you look at the variable line lengths. But the first verse works for my ear - listening to the roughly drafted tune and re-inventing it mentally on the fly using my words: why can't (the) time stand still for...
Good morning, love I bring the morning tea and eggs for you and me some jam, some toasted bread let's break the fast in bed Good morning, love Good morning, love now that the day's begun let's greet the morning sun let's seize the brandnew day _ in our...
girl, you see me in despair you speak in tongues, you are so learned girl, I think it is not fair I'm helpless, yet you're unconcerned Well, it's not the most sophisticated one as bridges come as it does not add a new aspect or provides some interesting...
I put this down on the train during a business trip: life's a game with win and loss the world's a place where coins are tossed sometimes you're sweet, sometimes you're cross with me for reasons I don't see I'm no saint, but I'm a man I'm tryin' to do...
"legalize me" took about ten minutes to write during a coffee break at the office. I had a short glimpse at Rhymezone that I use quite often, and that was that. It begins: I ain't doin' nobody no harm I give no reason for raising alarm I'm friendly, I'm...
Weird structure... And the composer/singer seemed to have forgotten the tune of the verse when he came to the second verse so it wasn't quite clear what I was supposed to match my words with... Whatever, this is what I've got: VERSE hey Baby, I like to...
There are 35 lyrics that I've written for MotorPlanet to date. Enough, I'd say, to publish them in a little collection. I've added one text that I've written with MotorPlanet in mind that has not been set to music yet, so it makes three dozen lyrics altogether....
I replaced one word and shifted a few lines to bring them in an order that make sense for me - if for no-one else ;-) You can find the 'official' version - like all the other 'official' versions of all my lyrics on my lyrics pages. As for now the "no...
As I've mentioned before it does not suffice to count notes or syllables if you try to find a text that matches a particular tune. You have to observe the stresses as well. One method to achieve this is to write a nonsense text first that may serve as...
Did I tell you about my scrap book? Well, I'm sure I did. Here are the latest entries I added there, short sketches to be filled out sometime later. I think they'll all make choruses eventually: got to cut you out cut you out _ of my mind got to cut you...
The verses: she's the girl that goes under your skin she's the price you would like to win she's the girl right out of your dream but you won't get her holding on to another Jim Beam sitting around like you're paralyzed demoralized oh no-ho ... and: she's...
You may have noticed, or you may have not, that the second line of the first verse in "Melanie" does not match the corresponding lines if it comes to the number of syllables. It's if I caused you pain (5 syllables) versus if your pleas were in vain (6...
