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 guess that most song deal with this message, "I love you", "I love you so much, I can't live without you", and so on. It's the greatest feeling there is, and it makes the most boring song lyrics there are. For my - still non-existing - video tutorial...
"cry out, shout out" are my latest (lunch time) lyrics. I polished them today. Amazingly, I found that shortening lines that even before seemed too short to produce an even meter actually improved their flow. the lines "now they lay off workforce while...
I've written repeatedly about using 'Gibberish' or dummy text when writing song lyrics. Yet again, I've completed recording the accompaniment for a new song that still lacks lyrics (and, truth be told, a proper tune as well). It seems to turn out rather...
I found replacements for the first two lines since their meter would not quite ("not quite"!) match the meter of the respective lines in the other verses. With one exception all lines end on a stressed syllable, yet the first two lines ended in an unstressed...
Craig wants to set my lyrics to music. Because the lines two and four of the verses do not match the tune he has in mind I rewrote them to make them the same or similar meter as lines one and three. Craig also suggested a simpler phrase for the bridge:...
I actually wrote the verses before I decided to alter the bridge. After rewriting the latter verses and bridge had the same rhyming pattern. I prefer them to differ, so I shifted the lines of the verses as well. This was my first version of verse one:...
... are a common cliche, I guess. Since Dave Davies' "death of a clown" I must have had the image of a sad clown in my mind (which actually wouldn't do his song justice, but that's another story - fantastic lyrics, by the way, great imagery). One of my...
At the moment I am working on "close your eyes" (third time that I try to get that song right) and "Bellie". Did the guitar tracks today - 12 string acoustic. Will do the vocals sometime in August. The Selfastrays may do "against the wall". My lyrics...
Flamur, the Albanian I mentioned before, sang "don't turn your back on me" a few days ago and found certain passages difficult to sing or not going well with the tune, so we altered a few words and lines. He's in the studio again today, I believe. Wait...
a proud old man, a baby boy his long-awaited grandson descendant, heir to a long line (1) who will in the long run (2)(3) set up his sep'rate fam'ly pass on his genes and name maybe eventually he'll even come to fame Notes: 1. stress on the "a" - not...
Once you've got your mind going .... Here's the second verse. The meter works just fine: a Facebook page, a mail account that have been left deserted unanswered posts on sev'ral boards that look like ill concerted a man who once was bustling thriving,...
Craig had sent a text that I could use as 'template' for the verses: yet another rewrite for "Hold on" During my vacation I wrote two verses. Unforunately I could only come up with lines that had one syllable too many compared to Craig's dummy text. Musically...
An adjustment: it will have to be "can't" instead of "cannot" to match the meter. And here's the bridge: am I losing both you and my best friend have our love and friendship both reached a dead end Should you wonder why it has taken me so long to come...
I'm not quite sure if this will be it. As I won't record the song before January anyway, there's plenty of time to decide. Maybe I'll use this text only as a template for something completely different. Anyway, I altered the first verse to: in close embracement...
May be my next title. I've recorded the guitar parts - nothing else - and am trying to find matching lines. As a possible chorus I put down: I have eyes and I have ears but I cannot believe what I'm hearing my mind runs wild it drives me mad I beg it...
The common expression would be "come true". I came up with "come real" because it rhymes with "steel", "feel", "deal", "seal", and "we'll". Maybe my own title "make me real" had influenced me as well. Remarkably, "to come real" would be the more precise...
More feedback in the manner "country must be conversational", so here are my suggestions trying to reduce educated lingo: LIFT: you may think you can dictate to me you may think you can lay down the law you base your views on what's best for you but your...
This is another text that has to match an existing tune. It's structure is Verse - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Coda. Although these may not be my best lyrics they represent my credo in its purest form. stand by yourself like you're undercover you...
If you think "whole lotta Rossie" when reading the headline - that's it, that's the direction the song is going to go. It has been off and on my mind since quite a while, and a recent discussion on Songwriter101 brought the idea back into my focus. I've...
Well, office work can be a source of inspiration... (see the third verse) giants fall deception and scheming paved the way for your reign now you lay down the rules for your personal gain organizing parades, celebrating your might aren't you afraid of...
make me real like I had lived within a mist my future never looked quite clear to me I never knew what I had missed just dragged along - year after year I tried to live a normal life my only purpose was to function no higher aims for which to strive until...
Nothing much to tell. I felt like rocking, I thrashed my guitar, I needed some lyrics, I wrote "hot stuff" - it took about 15 minutes: when I spotted you I didn't need a second look you were so hot no need to do it by the book we danced close I didn't...
These were my first notes: if you know a cause to fight for, then fight but make sure you look at the things by light if you know a reason to live, then live sometimes it's better to take then to give It rhymes okay but doesn't make too much sense, does...
I wrote three verses: she has her head in the clouds romantic dreams fill her mind you may find her singing aloud she's of the far-away kind she does not care for career she offers her love without guile when she leaves her celestial sphere she grants...
If Daniel likes the text I suggest for the chorus the title might actually become "ever and ever". Step 3: writing dummy text for the chorus that can serve as a template for the real text, i.e. that matches the music's meter yet needs not make sense....
