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...
It's a bore of a title, I'm afraid! I can't tell you how hard it is to write easygoing stuff: let's party, let's have fun... What exactly could you possibly write without repeating the very same bullshit over and over? Excuse my French! Alex has send...
A quick one. I wrote first what later became the last part: I greeted the man in the mirror, said kindly “How do you do” he smiled, then winked and answered “I think that I know you, too” I looked at the man in the coffin he looked familiar to me he said...
This is the chorus that I wrote (the first chorus, the later ones are in past tense): the rush hour's craze took its toll a victim's spouse to console her kid, too young to understand, reaches for his mother's hand and says "I cannot sleep where the angels...
Comments on "who is I" (cool hook line, isn't it?): I love these spare, meaningful lyrics that milk a lot of meaning out of a few words. hardtwistmusic really enjoyed reading this good example of less is more Tony love the word marooned!! good write,...
... and can tackle my self-imposed task, compiling a new - real big - lyrics collection. I'll check, correct, and edit the lot, replacing one or the other with an improved re-write, like, for example, "who I am". This will take a while since I don't intend...
Another verse: when we visit friends of ours she makes jokes at my expense she ignores when I get tense says I must not take offense The first line first went "when we are visiting our friends", but the rhyme was not intended since all other verses have...
I've recorded a (very) rough version of Ganymede. It has a wonderful melody which my wife claims is stolen from some Irish folk tune - got to check that out. Unfortunately, I am not only off beat as usual but also out of tune. With the added digital clipping...
I've written two verses. Although I checked my Penguin Rhyming Dictionary as well as RhymeZone.com they seemed to be of little help this time, or, more precisely, of none at all. I used dict.cc (my favorite online dictionary) and Google(!) to check expressions:...
I've come up with a "nice" chorus and worked on the bridge. I also edited the second verse a bit. As for the bridge I'm not quite sure if you can say "single instance" instead of "singular instance". The latter would be correct but quite clumsy to sing....
In case you've been wondering where all my lyrics go once they've sort of passed through the blog, well, they're all there on my lyrics pages. And every once in a while I produce a PDF with a whole bunch of lyrics. Should you be interested in just the...
"Cool story telling. Is this from a classic tale? It sounds a little familiar to me. Nice guitar work as well. I do believe the quality of your recordings should be better just for esthetic reason and for enjoyment purposes. Your music derserves it. -rl"...
The last few days I've been busy reinventing German songs, or at least trying to. I'm getting the impression that there may be such as thing as German tunes, melodies that would only fit with German lyrics. Anyway, I've given up on one particular project...
I altered the second verse which I was not happy with, added a third verse, and added a part that shall serve as a kind of bridge or interlude. KJ told me that the song will be recorded with a female voice so I also had to change the sex of the addressed...
So far I've written 31 titles for the Blues Rock band MotorPlanet from Bremerhaven. Plus a few additional songs where they have set my lyrics to music that were not originally written for them. When I work for MotorPlanet I'll first be sent a recording...
I've changed the hook line into "I've torn down the bridge I crossed" instead of "I tore down the bridge I'd crossed". Though grammatically correct the first version did not convey what I've been trying to express: the bridge isn't there any longer and...
The first two verses that I wrote read when she is angry she strikes out at who gets close she doesn't care 'bout guilt or cause she hits hard, if just verbose when I try her patience I'll earn her contempt and spite but I will be compensated when we...
Holger had sent a composition again. Everything present except the text. Bloody good piece of rock, by the way! The guitar phrase towards the end sounds a little mystic to me. Holger sings "Gibberish" like he usually does. English phrases, or English...
The bridge I posted yesterday was crap. It more or less simply repeated what the chorus already contained. I've replaced it with a version that actually does my original intention justice as it provides for some contemporary connection. The structure...
The structures of verse, chorus, and bridge look rather similar, but in my mind they have different tunes. I certainly hope that I’ll remember in a week or so what’s in my mind right now. If not - so what. This is the text (comments and corrections are...
"outta control" is Karsten's dummy title for song no. 046. After checking my scrap book if maybe my ideas around "burst mode" might fit I came back to his own title and began inventing lines about being "out of control". First trial: I cannot help it...
I had to listen to Karsten's Midi file about one hundred times to get the intonation right (well, maybe I only listened 10 or 20 times). The stresses in certain lines of text just would not match. In the end I managed to stick to my original ideas by...
... is the next project I'm working on. I'm writing lyrics to match music by Hot Mama from Freiberg near Dresden (check them out - it's sure worth it). The first part had to be matched with the tune, writing the middle part was similar to writing to match...
Markus has recorded a piece of music singing some kind of English nonsense text. Thus the song already sounds English, I'll just have to find some matching words. Only recently, I had quite some difficulties finding lyrics for songs that had been recorded...
I've been busy rhyming. The structure of the song will become verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus. Here are my verses (the bridge is still missing). Here and there the intonation is a little off, but that should be acceptable - it's a fun song...
While I was racking my brain to come up with ideas for Karsten's coming-of-age song the following text came to my mind: well, it's okay if you've fallen in love fallen in love with me but any tie of endurance write off I'm not that kind of guy, you see...
