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...
Fortunately, the meter for the verses is quite simple, it's eight times the same pattern: - - X - X The first lines I've come up with are: when the work is done when the school is out it's time for some fun and we sing and shout There I've got stuck and...
Not three but two musicians I'm writing for at the moment, Alexander and Stefan. Then there is the young lady, Jennifer, who is supposed to sing the stuff. Anyway, here is our third collaborative project: "let's party and get on bad". First I gathered...
I'm not sure when the completed song will be published. I'm not even sure if it will ever be published. Most of the songs I've written for amateur musicians never were, but at least this song's lyrics will! Right here, right now: dancing through the light...
New potential partners. I've received three pieces of music I'm supposed to find matching words for. The song lines are represented by MIDI saxophones. The first song may become "light and dark". I've written and adjusted the chorus first that stands...
I've tried writing a few lines to match Bernd's tune without actually being able to listen to it at the moment. Could be crap, but then, could also be great: why should they care and claim that she is the wrong one for you how dare they judge about what...
Out of the blue there were these lines in my head. I put them down so as not to forget them: leave me some air to breathe leave me some room to roam 'cause if you don't change your ways I won't be coming home They will make the chorus of a new song. Somehow...
- that's the title that Bernd has given our co-production. No bridge, the lyrics remain as they were with the exception of a few minor "tweaks" to fit into the melody. Bernd has recorded a rough demo, singing the song himself. You can listen to it on...
not yet approved by the composer: your looks, your strength, your charm, and your wit bewitch all the women in town at your job you're a man of renown but I've had a glimpse into the pit light and dark are just the two sides of the same light and dark...
Gary suggests to swap the first two verses. That's a grand idea, thus the new first verse can serve as intro: finding the flaw in the wise man's lectures to break the circle of reincarnation first seemed based on mere conjectures but shall lead to your...
... that's the chord progression I am experimenting with at the moment. The creation of a few of my songs began with a riff or a chord progression like "Rows in a row", for example, or "Jumpy". I've put "Siddartha" on hold for a few days because I've...
Yet again I consulted RhymeZone once or twice and added a few lines. I also replaced and rearranged some lines in the second verse: his stuff stowed in a shopping cart his main asset an old guitar that's everything he'll ever need his staple diet some...
The guidelines are rather strict, and I couldn’t always heed them. Also, I’m not really content with the order of my lines in the first verse, neither with the chorus that at the moment seems to end rather weak. But first things first: the verses consist...
Ron Nelson from a songwriter board gave a few good hints. Now, just a few seconds ago, I listened to Bernd's rough demo yet again and tweaked the text a little more. So now I think that this will be it, exept that a bridge is still missing: Verse I: you...
A colleague suggested to make it a bit clearer who "you" is (you could mean either "one" or my girl friend, the latter being what I've wanted to convey): to start a row you need neither cause nor reason you'd act like I've committed treason you heed neither...
(title and chorus by Martin Goetz; I just changed the chorus into present tense). As to Martin, the meter of the verses fit, so I added another verse in the same meter and the pre-chorus. I came up with the two lines "eventually he'll leave the town"...
I hope I'll remember the tune I had in my mind for the bridge that I've added today. Anyway, here are the lyrics: the shadows grow longer the sun's on the decline the sky will be burning and the Gods will resign I am so tired now but I'm still feeling...
It's been more than 30 years since I read Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha the first time. So, I had forgotten that it's not about the historic Gautama at all, but Hesse rather re-invents Siddartha. In his tale Siddartha meats Gautama, learns from him - and...
After writing the second verse I adapted the meter of the first. I've also written a third verse that I'm not quite happy with and therefore might re-write sometime later. Maybe, maybe not. There definitely should be a bridge that could either soften...
I've begun writing a "farewell song" yesterday. This is what I've got so far: the shadows grow longer the sun's on the decline the sky will be burning and the Gods will resign I am so tired now but I'm still feeling fine and I gather my friends reach...
The Gilgamesh "project" had been on my mind since last November. Since I recorded stuff in the meantime, and wrote other lyrics for Markus and myself, the blog entries regarding Gilgamesh are rather scattered. Therefore, let me just put them in an order,...
a few additions from my side after listening to the music again: Verse 1: why should they care and claim that he/she is the wrong one for you Well, I just added the optional "he" instead of just "she". This is actually one of my very few lyrics that could...
No chorus! What I had suggested as a chorus I will instead use as intro and outro as well. I won't go into details as to how many lines I discarded, shifted, rewrote etc. I had known from the beginning that casting the oldest epos of the word into a song...
Yet again I was supposed to write lyrics that match a tune by Markus. There were neither title nor any suggestions as to its subject. The tune sounded somewhat Hawaiian to me, hence the title I've chosen. In the verses Markus sings: la li lu (three times)...
- The first "row" is British English and rhymes with "cow", in case you've wondered. The accompaniment with the working title "AZDZ" has been waiting for a while to be casted into a complete song. Today, I've tried to come up with matching lyrics. One...
I've recorded "giants fall" and posted it as well on UBW (streaming audio) as on SoundClick (Frontpage). It has made it up to position 2 on the UBW "classic rock" charts and even pulled up "terminal disease" again with it as well (the clicks on "giants...
