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...
... is the working title of another song by Karsten. Karsten sends MIDI files which makes it rather easy for me to determine the meter of a song. For example, the stress is on the first beat in 4/4 meter, and less significantly on the third. Here is the...
I wrote the lyrics rather quickly - over the lunch break. There is one line that I want in but didn't quite match the language of the rest of the lyrics: at an early age you'd reached the top you touched the stars could not be stopped *** banged many...
After giving Karsten's song number 044 time to rest in my mind so I maybe would come up with some ideas I've decided that I just leave it. I still haven't the faintest idea about a possible subject nor have I come up with suitable lines. Karsten's provisional...
Bernd's first hundred lyrics ... are now available online: http://www.archive.org/details/BerndsFirstHundredLyrics No charges, no problems. Everybody may use my lyrics or perform my songs as long as two conditions are met: * no commerce (if you sniff...
Normally, when I start writing a song the first I would come up with is an idea for the chorus. But as for "Spartacus", "Europa", and now "Ganymede", where I'm telling stories, I've begun with the verses. So here are two more verses for Ganymede that...
Karsten's Midi files have numbers. I began working on number 44 today. Karsten actually has given it a provisional title - "shattered dreams", and since I had no ideas of my own I did a little brain storming around this phrase. I forgot to take the notes...
Well, I was having difficulties with the bridge. Truth be told, I still have. The reason is that I've said all in the chorus, there is actually nothing to add. I wanted to add a timeless message to the story. Well, that's what I've done in the chorus....
I had come across the subject when I gathered material for "Europa". Coming across the name "Ganymede" I remembered that we had discussed a poem by Goethe at school. This aroused my curiosity. But other than Goethe I would not like to wrap (hide?) my...
Normally I have difficulty writing for very young musicians. There lives simply differ quite too much from mine. Well, my lyrics for Karsten's song "18" have gotten a bit too young, I'm afraid. We might have to name it "16" instead: the party is in full...
Here's another text I've written for Karsten. It matches the syllable count but I haven't checked the intonation yet. I may have to rewrite parts of it. The structure of the song is: Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus Chorus Verse I still don't know...
KJ (Karl-Jürgen) has produced quite a few pieces of music, some of them I will set to words in the next time (do you say "set to words"? I know it's "set to music" when you create music based on poems or lyrics). Anyway, his music basically are chord...
The first part read "rock is about sex", so this is actually the second issue on my "long-legged divinity". Although I forgot the tune I first had in mind the chorus has always come along with a melody. Which is the rule for my own stuff: I normally have...
I've come up with a chorus (or verse type B of my former post): I am feeling churned up I'm feeling turned on I feel like a tiger in a cage I am feeling churned up I'm feeling turned on I waver between love and rage As for the verses I am thinking along...
While I've been trying to record "long-legged divinity" and straighten out "close your eyes" - both with little success - Karsten has sent 5 (!) compositions which still lack their lyrics. Looks like I've got to be busy for a couple of days. I think I...
I will call the song I just mentioned in my last post "DON'T you feel it" - not "can't" as in my example . These are its lyrics: you keep beating | around the bush pussyfooting | around me I don't want to | urge and push just need to know: | where are...
I know I failed you, I'll try to put it right I won't talk it down, oh, I don't shun the light but I feel so bad, I come crawling on my knees why does it have to hurt to gain your sympathy ... is supposed to make the chorus. Obviously, the verses will...
Europa when you will have come into years and you'll have reached quite different spheres you'll still look beautiful and young and you will speak in many tongues while men enjoy your subtle charm the God's preventing you from harm My discarded first...
... shall be the title of the new MotorPlanet song. I first put down dummy text (either the nonsense text Holger sings in his rough cut or any words that would fit but need not make sense). Next I invent lines that match with the same pattern, i.e. meter....
Two and a half weeks ago a 17 year old gunman killed 15 in a shooting spree in Winnenden/Germany. Surrounded by the police he later also killed himself. There were rumours that he had announced the killing spree on an internet board. The announcement...
I've changed the chorus: shall I live as the world’s going under shall I live in a future that's void while it rains lightning and thunder 'til the earth is fin'ly destroyed Ray Bertram contributed to this, I just managed to "rescue" one single "til"....
Steffen had sent a piece of music where he sings "da dabn da da" and so on, so i can get a feel for its metrics. I associate his style with bar music, that's why my ideas would circle around bar related topics. And here is the result: I've called it a...
Now that was easy for a change. Comparing the variant chorus with the others I found that only two notes are left off in the last line. So I put in "no control" there instead of "they're out of control", and Bingo! out of control you wanted me but you...
Instead of "we will party ... we will party all night long" it now reads "we'll be dancing ... we'll be dancing all night long". I knew that "we will party" was definitely not the language of the 19th century, but I found it funny nonetheless. I've re-considered...
I had to consult my rhyming dictionary quite a lot. Thus I found "dust" as a rhyme for "disgust", "bright" for "might", "gain" for "vain", "den" for "men". On the internet I also had found "bombs" for "qualms", which is not exactly great, but will have...
When I write for myself I'd normally begin with a tune in my head and one or two phrases for the chorus. Later I'd complete the text for the chorus and add the verses, normally without a tune for the verses at that time. Two of my recent projects both...
