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 think I'll make "size matters" one of my famous - or is it infamous? - 'episodical' lyrics. That would mean that the verses tell separate stories that only have one thing in common, which is dealing with size. One verse could be about a dwarf and his...
Lunch time lyrics! Maybe it is that I'm often slightly bored over lunch time - my working place must be among the ugliest places that exist, planned by some misanthrope - or maybe that I'm just particularly relaxed during my breaks... Anyway, I'm getting...
let them come, let them go let them hide, let them show let them in, let them out let them dance, let them sing let them hurt, let them sting let them in, let them out I have neither title nor a real content. At the moment, there is just this chorus that...
thought police their cameras capture each move when you're in town they track your handy when you walk around they gather information, but they're out for more they ignore your rights and they bend the law they've got the means, they've got the expertise...
... that I will place right after the first chorus and BEFORE the third verse for obvious(?) reasons: I'm hearing cheerful laughter and also angry shouts coming from the playground a lively mix of sounds I watch a couple holding hands I see a young girl...
It has a story that is nearly as weird as the song itself. Although I'm a lousy guitar player I love playing the guitar. Over time I record guitar tracks that I eventually paste together to create backing tracks, partly just so I can play solos on top...
Lunch-time lyrics, yet again. Put down darn quickly, yet quite good anyway - quality has nothing to do with the time one spends on things. You could tell that I'm proud of them. And their not nearly as sleazy as I myself expected them to be. Maybe I should...
nohting much to tell with regard to "lyrics in progress". I used RhymeZone a lot, otherwise it sort of wrote itself. I wrote the chorus first. It's a rather long chorus with internal repetitions. You could actually describe its internal structure as "chorus...
While I'm supposed to write for yet another producer* I completed "no knight tonight", a little lyrics project of my own that had been resting uncompleted for months. But that's not what I wanted to write about at all... Well, aside from his tune Tobias...
... extended version: risks are taken all limits broken breaking loose tires lose their grip a wall is hit this is bad news a life has been taken again the hero to live on in our minds risks are taken all limits broken breaking loose I posted the text...
I haven't heard from Julia again, so I guess that our collaboration is called off. Therefore, I've begun rewriting the 'Medusa' lyrics, eliminating Julia's contributions as far as possible so I can license the lyrics to others, i.e. attaching my usual...
After "Sabrina" this time "Assembled Masturbators" was censored and deleted from a Just Plain Folks forum being alleged of containing child pornography. The verse in question reads: in a hidden corner that is hard to see young boys sometimes will gather...
When I don't feel like writing lyrics I record my own music. I just completed yet another backing track by adding a MIDI bass and MIDI drums today, so all what is left missing is the vocals. And as usual I don't have any words for my own new song. Three...
One spelling correction (though inaudible): circumcised - and yes, women can be, and are circumcised, actually mutilated. "young, aroused, barbaric men" instead of "..., and brutal men" (always good to get rid of 'ands', 'buts' etc., and 'barbaric' seems...
The former version of "attracted to you" had some flaws as fellow songwriters pointed out. For example, the word "zest" sounded stilted (Donna's expression) and did not fit 'her' provocative tone. In do you have the grit" versus "how to get it" the meter...
It was easier than expected: she has lots of admirers she can afford to take her pick secretely I wait for her to get rid of her current prick You migth observe that the syllable counts don't quite match the first verse (the first and third lines of the...
My favorite three-piece blues-rock band has become a four piece band. With Nici they have gained additional femal vocals. This means that more lyrics will have to be written from a female perspective. Holger has sent two new songs that still lack lyrics....
Just one day after publishing my lyrics collection I've put together yet another song text, it's called "Hollywood happy end". I had kept that particular title in mind since quite some time. Originally, I intended to write a cynical anti war song. The...
Singers are weird people. When they don't like the lyrics you've written for them they simply cut off the communication. You never hear from them again. That happened with Rastin, Katharina, Ethan, Yasmin, and now Fabio - so it doesn't seem to be gender-specific....
The second tune by Ethan that I will set to words. Can one say it this way - to set music to words? Anyway, I analysed the structure first, it goes: (a very, very short) Intro - Verse - Part 1- Verse - Part 2 First I thought, there would be a chorus,...
The question mark indicates that I'm not yet quite happy with what I had put down as a chorus the other day: so don't give me no crap size matters and that is that size matters let it show so you can see it make it grow so you can feel it size matters...
black waters conformism I took for adaption flatt'ry for popularity cheating my way through school and study ingratiation smoothed my way our life's purpose was beyond me why did people make such a fuss I always tried to take things easy there was no...
It maybe could do with a bridge. At the moment it's just verse - chorus - verse - chorus - verse - chorus. But content-wise it seems complete to me: I escaped the biting flies next desert sand burned in my eyes saw some paintings in the cave the rock...
I may have to rewrite most of what I've written so far. It depends on how my lines of text work together with the music - that I haven't heard so far. I had only Stasy's first draft that I used as template. Nevertheless, I wrote a few more lines that...
While working on the chorus I gathered rhymes for "feel" using my good old Penguin Rhyming Dictionary: deal, seal, kneel (I liked that one yet didn't use it), steal, appeal, conceal, reveal (that's the one I chose) This is the new chorus: so don't give...
