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 must make a confession! While writing the third verse for "seize your life" (see: thoughts come like bubbles) I looked up rhymes for "far" in my good old Penguin Rhyming Dictionary. And what did I find - with exception of "star(s)" that I'd already...
Did you spot my "Sabrina"? I mean the song on SoundClick. I had written and recorded it in 2008. Yet, although I'm kind of resistant against feeling embarrassed, I never published it. Even in relation to my own pretty low standards the recording was a...
The MotorPlanet song that I mentioned yesterday already has got lyrics. By yours truly! I simply had forgotten that it existed, and it doesn't occur in any of my collections either. Small wonder its 'dummy' text sounded familiar... But Holger announced...
I wasn't quite happy with the bridge of "I've waited for you to happen". Although it seemed to match the tune in my mind when I wrote it I had the feeling that the meter was off. Today I envisioned or 'invented' a different fitting tune - quite obviously...
I'm reading Nicholas Sparks' "The lucky one" at the moment. It's about a guy who has only got a photo of the girl he now intends to search out. Somewhere I came across the line "nothing but a face in the crowd" that somehow stroke the romantic chord in...
The idea rested in my 'scrap book' long enough, just these two words: "blood rain". I wanted to write a song about medieval superstition hinting on the - or one possible - 'scientific' explanation at the same time. I had first come across the idea when...
... are better than one? Kidding aside! We're talking real serious stuff here, aren't we? I wrote two 'briges' today - for two different songs. where the angels come to weep: she'd never have thought she could get over it but not at least she knew there...
I wrote this on my vacation. While editing it right now I smoothened the meter a bit (see my notes in square brackets): a blind man describing colors to the deaf the moron talks about philosophy the living full of envy for the dead the fish are roosting...
I mean: can you write LYRICS if you can't hear them sung? I'm not quite sure! What I'm sure of is that I keep hearing songs when I write lyrics, tunes that only exist in my mind. Some may even come to life eventually, i.e. I actually record the songs,...
Three verses, one is repeated that makes it four and should suffice for a song. There's not a full-blown chorus this time but just three repeated lines, a refrain: I'll do all things one must not do so one day I'll get through to you I will go nuts, I'll...
I've written first a bridge, then a chorus that later became the pre-chorus, then another - rather short - schorus, that I actually kept as chorus. Since I've posted the text on two discussion boards I'll spare you yet another copy of the text here. Let's...
I usually either begin with writing the chorus or at least have a very clear idea of it. Storytelling songs/lyrics like "Gilgamesh" or "pardon me, Melanie" are an exception, of course, since they don't have a chorus ("Melanie" has lyrical/musical breaks...
I didn't post "memories to last" here because I had written it at one go - nothing much of a process or 'progress' there. But then one guy criticized my old fashioned words causing me to change a few lines: thread on Songwriter101 Next another fellow...
The idea has been with me since quite some time to assemble a collection of those songs and lyrics that deal directly or indirectly with my "carpe diem" credo. Today I published a collection of 33 lyrics on the Internet Archive. Their topics reach from...
My wife says that you don't meet married men at a dance. Therefore, I re-wrote the first verse of "falling victim" - actually only the first four lines: an after-work drink a smile and a wink the few words exchanged somehow felt strange when I left the...
First my last verse began: the chrysanthemum flowers mark the end of the season for a while I thought about rhyming "while" with "smile". But since chrysanthema stand for fidelity I also wanted that aspect included. In the end I decided on: the chrysanthemum...
... or "Svein - V", respectively ;-) My findings as for flowers that symbolize love and affection: Begonia - fanciful nature Birds of Paradise - joyfulness Chrysanthemum, red - fidelity, love Gorse - love in all seasons Jonquil - affection returned Mimosa...
Using my dummy text for the chorus as a template I wrote a new chorus: and now I am standing in the rain and feel blessed with my garden of bliss like my plants I revel in the rain I dance, and I marvel at this place of rest isle of love my world of bliss...
Before coming back to Svein's song I regrouped some songs in my 'carpe diem collection' shifting "listen to the river" from the 'philosophical' to the 'considerate' section, for example. As I hadn't decided on a subject for Svein's song yet I began working...
The first step when trying to match lyrics with a tune - before writing a single word - is putting down the structure of the song. I also note the points in time, so it's easier to jump forwart to and listen to the different parts seperately. Svein's...
Did you notice the slight change? I like it better that way. My lyrics still are no perfect match yet a darn good one, I'd say. The chorus will need an extra upbeat note in the first line whereas the current upbeat note in the fourth line will have to...
Svein is a hobby composer from Norway. These days he sent me a very beautiful tune to find fitting words for. Since I have no idea at the moment as to what I might write about I will simply call this little project "Svein". Ninetyeight.m3u (maybe it's...
At the moment I'm about to find words for two pieces of music. I normally begin with the chorus. Peter's tune has the structure: verse - verse - chorus - verse - verse - chorus - verse - verse - chorus - chorus - chorus The first version for the chorus...
I had a flash of inspiration ;-) These are the two missing verses plus a replacement for the last verse: just hanging 'round with guys you wouldn't care to know [the first unstressed syllable - the upbeat - missing] waiting to get pissed tryin' to get...
I had originally written "Tiger in a cage" to match a MotorPlanet tune. Now Craig will have a go at it. After scrapping the fifth lines in each verse he also asks for several adaptions/additions: another Friday another weekend lies ahead another Friday...
